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Rodger Streitmatter
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Publications - Articles Published in Refereed Journals

  • “Herman Lynn Womack: Pornographer as First Amendment Pioneer,” Journalism History, Summer 2002 (co-authored with John C. Watson)

  • Review of “Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America” by Larry Gross, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 2002

  • Review of “Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting” by Phylis A. Johnson and Michael C. Keith, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Winter 2001

  • “The Nativist Press: Demonizing the American Immigrant,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Winter 1999

  • “Origins of the American Labor Press,” Journalism History, Fall 1999

  • “Conservative Media: A Different Kind of Diversity,” American Journalism, Fall 1999

  • “Transforming the Women’s Pages: Strategies that Worked,” Journalism History, Summer 1998

  • Vice Versa: America’s First Lesbian Magazine,” American Periodicals, 1998

  • “Margaret Schofield Wang and the Christian Science Monitor: Opening a Window onto a ‘Different’ China,” American Journalism, Summer-Fall 1997

  • “Journalism History Goes Interactive at the Newseum,” American Journalism, Winter 1997

  • “Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: Contributions of Life Study to Journalism History: Who Should Do the Studying?,” American Journalism, Spring 1996

  • “Lesbian and Gay Press: Raising a Militant Voice in the 1960s,” American Journalism, Spring 1995

  • “Creating a Venue for the ‘Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name’: Origins of the Gay and Lesbian Press,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 1995

  • “Delilah L. Beasley: A Nineteenth Century African-American Woman Journalist Who Lifted as She Climbed,” American Journalism, Winter 1994

  • The Advocate: Setting the Standard for the Gay Liberation Press,” Journalism History, Autumn 1993

  • “Gertrude Bustill Mossell: Guiding Voice for Newly Freed Blacks,” Howard Journal of Communications, Summer 1993

  • “African-American Women Journalists and Their Male Editors: A Tradition of Support,” Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1993

  • “Maria W. Stewart: First Female African-American Journalist,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Summer 1993

  • “Marvel Cooke: An African-American Journalist Who Agitated for Racial Reform,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, July 1992, co-authored with Barbara Diggs-Brown

  • “Economic Conditions Surrounding Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Journalists: Two Case Studies,” Journalism History, Spring 1992

  • “No Taste for Fluff: Ethel L. Payne, African-American Journalist,” Journalism Quarterly, Autumn 1991

  • “President Theodore Roosevelt: Public Relations Pioneer,” American Journalism, Spring 1990

  • “Alice Allison Dunnigan: An African-American Woman Journalist Who Broke the Double Barrier,” Journalism History, Autumn-Winter 1989

  • “William W. Price: White House Pioneer and Emblem of an Era,” Journalism History, Spring/Summer 1989

  • “The Rise and Triumph of the White House Photo Opportunity,” Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1988

  • “Personality as a Factor in White House News Coverage,” Journalism Quarterly, Spring 1985

  • “Ideal Education of the Environmental Journalist,” Journalism Educator, Autumn 1984

  • “Student-Staffed News Services Are Few in Number, but Their Success Record Is Impressive,” Journalism Educator, Summer 1983

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