Table of Contents

Introduction; Emerging Journalism Professionalism and Modernity by Betty Houchin Winfield; The Scene in 1908; 1908: A Very Political Year for the Press by Betty Houchin Winfield From Whiskey Ads to the Reverend Jellyfish: Media Law in 1908 by Sandra Davidson; Modernization: Journalism Comes of Age; Community Journalism: A Continuous Objective by William Howard Taft Press Clubs Champion Journalism Education by Stephen Banning Philosophy at Work: Ideas Made a Difference by Hans Ibold and Lee Wilkins; Institutional Rumblings and Change; Power, Irony, and Contradictions: Education and the News Business by Fred Blevens The Age of ""Glory and Risk"": The Advertising Industry Finds Its Worth by Caryl Cooper; Journalism's Extended Family; Work in Progress: Labor and the Press in 1908 by Bonnie Brennen Good Women and Bad Girls: Women and Journalism in 1908 by Maurine H. Beasley; General Assignment Plus; Sports Journalism and the New American Character of Energy and Leisure by Tracy Everbach Enter Stage Right: Critics Flex Their Muscles in the Heyday of Live Performances by Scott Fosdick 1908: The Beginnings of Globalization of Journalism Education by John C. Merrill and Hans Ibold The Look of 1908: Newspaper Design Status at a Turning Point in Journalism by Lori England Wegman; Journalism's Concurrent Voices; Reform Consume: Social Tumult on the Pages of Progressive Era Magazines by Janice Hume Foreign Voices Yearning to Breathe Free: The Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant Press in the United States by Berkley Hudson Forced to the Margins: The Early Twentieth-Century African American Press by Earnest Perry and Aimee Edmondson; Conclusion; 1908: The Aftermath by Betty Houchin Winfield.

About the Author

Betty Houchin Winfield is University of Missouri Distinguished Curators' Professor and the author of three books, including FDR and the News Media.