#journalismhistory — Public Fediverse posts

On #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote a piece commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times. Appointed Milan Correspondent in May 1915, during 1915-17 she was attached to the Italian army & reported about the fighting between Italy & Austria-Hungary in the Trentino and on the Isonzo.

After #WWI she fell into oblivion & died impoverished & lonely in Paris in 1939.

#Women
#Journalism
#WarReporting
#WomensHistory
#JournalismHistory
#MediaHistory
https://stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis-waterman/

"The plane she was riding crashed while landing in Amsterdam; Clyman was injured but survived and recovered.

From 1938 to 1941, she worked in Montreal as a correspondent for London Daily Express, and then moved to New York, where she led a quiet life until she died in 1981."
#JournalismHistory #Journalism

Totally exhausted after 8 working days in the archive in London, researching a female war correspondent of the First World War. I found an incredible amount of material and look forward to writing the history of this fascinating woman. But my eyes hurt from reading the microfilms 😭
#FirstWorldWar #WomenWarReporters #mediahistory #communicationhistory #journalismhistory #archives

#UnconventionalJournalists: #Wolfe, #Kanafani and #GarcíaMárquez | #TheListeningPost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMz57wsSl8

#journalism #journalismhistory #history

Looking for some fun reading for this weekend? Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America is currently 57% off at Amazon! #comics #herblock #politicalcartoons #comicsstudies #postwar #editorialillustration #editorialcartoon #editorialcartooning #americanstudies #journalismhistory

The Gadget arrived today! At last, I can hold in my hands a copy of my obsession of the last two and a half years! Perhaps unadvisedly, I made the unboxing into my first TikTok. But well, there it is! It's the brainchild of the awesome Dr. Melita M. Garza and the work of our co-editor Dr. Tracy Lucht, myself, and a host of #journalismhistory all-stars. #journalism #media #massmedia #communication #history #academicchatter #academicmastodon
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003245131/routledge-companion-american-journalism-history-melita-garza-michael-fuhlhage-tracy-lucht

The publisher's preface to the #Indonesian language translation also mentions that they tried in vain to locate Ang's living relatives and finally decided to publish anyways. #Indonesia #JournalismHistory

I tried looking up his son(s) to see if they were still alive, or had any identifiable relatives in Ontario, but had no luck. Before seeing this passage I thought maybe it would be cool to locate the English manuscript, but that seems less likely ... I do have the Indonesian translation (based on the Chinese translation afaik; I knew someone who knew the Indonesian publisher who unfortunately ignored my questions.) Anyhow such a fascinating figure. #JournalismHistory #Indonesia #Newspapers

This guy Ang Jan Goan has fascinated me for about 5 years. He was a high profile leftist Indonesian journalist / newspaper editor who emigrated to Toronto, where his son lived, after the 1966 purges. He wrote his memoir in English but it was only published in Chinese (and much later in Indonesian).
For a while I was wondering where the English manuscript ended up until last year when I came across this footnote in a dissertation:
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/fec08a55-cd84-4a25-a4c3-5347d62a785b/content
#Indonesia #JournalismHistory

#WomensHistoryMonth on the air, 1940s style: Doing research into old radio dramatizations of journalists' lives, I found these biographies of fascinating women, some new to me, including (embarrassingly) Margaret Fuller, one fictional, all well-acted -- especially the Nellie Bly adventure.
(The series was self-promotion disguised as patriotic & public service by the DuPont Co., but that doesn't hurt some of the stories.)
#OldTimeRadio #JournalismHistory #MediaHistory
https://jheroes.com/real-life-reporters/cavalcade/

It's an incredibly cool thing to be able to actually touch the original printed pages of the Voice of the Fugitive, Henry Bibb's anti-slavery newspaper, in the special collections at the #Detroit Public #Library. Very excited to teach #journalism #history once more this semester!
#JournalismHistoryMatters #journalismhistory #mediahistory #BlackHistory #histodons

@carol_j journalism has gotten democratized for better or worse. The biggest problem is that thorough investigation and reference checks have become rare, and lazy echo chambers the norm. This has sadly infected established organizations across the spectrum.

#journalism #journalismhistory

This week, Top of Mind with Julie Rose—a radio show and podcast from BYU Radio—focused on trust in the media. Julie interviewed me for some historical background on the organized press, audience trust, and as always, the New York Sun's moon bats. But don't just listen for my yakking. The whole show is very good.

https://www.byuradio.org/68e6b06a-73bb-4a0f-ace8-5f2b55bd066f/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-s2-e29-can-the-news-be-trusted%3F-americans-aren’t-too-sure.

#journalism #media #journalismhistory

Been noodling around on a short, introductory manifesto of sorts about the growing importance of attribution research to our understanding of the 19th-century press. Would be glad of any feedback, so here's the draft. https://www.victorianresearch.org/attribution%20-%20out%20of%20the%20shadows.pdf #Victodons #19th-cPeriodicals #JournalismHistory #BookHistory #LitStudies #Authorship

Your field's most under-appreciated primary sources? Here's one of mine: Henry Vizetelly's Glances Back through Seventy Years (1893).

Vizetelly was at the heart of the astonishing rise of the illustrated press, and he knew everybody connected with it. This tartly opinionated book gives us an engrossing insider's view.

His health broken, his career in tatters, he yet managed to write one of the great 19th-c. memoirs. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002006300959&view=1up&seq=9 #BookHistory #JournalismHistory #19thc

I just moved from mastodon.cloud to hcommons.social, so I’ll try another #introduction. I am an Assoc. Prof. of English/Latinx Studies @ Pace U in NYC. I write and teach about #LatinxStudies #litstudies #mediastudies #C19Lit #journalismhistory #Periodicals #dh #USLDH. My research centers on #c19 U.S-based Spanish-language print culture and the convergence of #lit and #MediaChange. My projects include the #digitalmapping site C19LatinoNYC.org and a book in progress called Electrifying News: A Hemispheric History of the Present in 19th-Century Print Culture.

@Bethgaskell Welcome, Beth! I feel privileged to be your first follower 😊. Say, while I’ve got you, a quick question: any plans at the BL to digitize The Echo, the first halfpenny evening paper? I’m especially eager to browse some of the estimated 1000 leading articles that Frances Power Cobbe wrote for it between 1868 and 1875, but as you know there’s much else of interest about the paper. #JournalismHistory #Victodons #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #VictorianStudies

I wrote the book "Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War," which pulled together insights about the secession crisis that bear frightening parallels with the #Jan6 insurrection. I've come to #Mastodon out of curiosity and as a hedge against #Twitter becoming a hellscape.

Interested in connecting with #commodons #mediastudies #journalismhistory #jhistory #polcomm #disinformation folks.