Journalism History – Reference Sources

Bibliographies and Reference Works

Blanchard, Margaret A., ed. History of the Mass Media in the United States. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. Call Number: Ref P 92 .U5 H55 1998.

Cannon, Carl L. Journalism: A Bibliography. New York: New York Public Library, 1924. Call Number: lower case y995.62.

Caswell, Lucy Shelton, ed. Guide to Sources in American Journalism History. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Call Number: Ref Z 6951.G83 1989.

Cates, Jo A. Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature. 3rd ed. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. Call Number: Ref Z 6940 .C38.

Ford, Edwin H. A Bibliography of Literary Journalism in America. Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1937. Call Number: folio lower case y 995.31.

Ford, Edwin H. History of Journalism in the United States: A Bibliography of Books and Annotated Articles. Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1938. Call Number: lower case y 995.32.

Price, Warren C. and Claude M. Pickett. An Annotated Journalism Bibliography, 1958-1968. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970. Call Number: Ref Z 6940 .P69.

Price, Warren C. The Literature of Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1959. Call Number: Ref Z 6940 .P7.

Sloan, Wm. David. American Journalism History: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Call Number: Ref Z 6951 .S54 1989.

Vanden Heuvel, Jon. Untapped Sources: America's Newspaper Archives and Histories. New York: Gannett Foundation Media Center, 1991. Call Number: Z 6941 .U57 1991.

Wolseley, Roland Edgar. The Journalist's Bookshelf: An Annotated and Selected Bibliography of United States Journalism. 3rd ed. Chicago: Quill and Scroll Foundation, 1943. Call Number: lower case y 995.98.

Biographical Resources

American Magazine Journalists. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co.

  • 1741-1850. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 73
  • 1850-1900. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 79
  • 1900-1960, first series. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 91
  • 1900-1960, second series. Call Number Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 137

American Newspaper Journalists. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co.

  • 1690-1872. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 43
  • 1873-1900. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 23
  • 1901-1923. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 25
  • 1926-1950. Call Number: Ref PN 451 .D5 v. 29

Beasley, Maurine Hoffman. The First Women Washington Correspondents. Washington, DC: George Washington University, 1976. Call Number: PN 4872 .B4.

Belford, Barbara. Brilliant Bylines: A Biographical Anthology of Notable Newspaperwomen in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Call Number: PN 4872 .B45 1986.

Downs, Robert B. Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. Call Number: Ref PN 4871 .D68 1991.

Drewry, John E., ed. Post Biographies of Famous Journalists. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1942. Call Number: Y995.785.

Milton, Joyce. The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Call Number: PN 4864 .M55 1989.

Regier, C. C. The Era of the Muckrakers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1932. Call Number: F83558.74.

Riley, Sam G. Biographical Dictionary of Newspapers Columnists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Call Number: Ref PN 4871 .B57 1997.

Ross, Ishbel. Ladies of the Press: The Story of Women in Journalism by an Insider, Ishbel Ross. 5th ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. Call Number: E3983.75.

Ullman, Doris. A Portrait Gallery of American Editors. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Call Number: +Y995.913.

Villard, Oswald Garrison. Some Newspapers and Newspaper-men. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1923. Call Number: lower case a 6.9415. (1926 edition: Call Number: PN 4855 .V5 1926).

Weisberger, Bernard A. The American Newspaperman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Call Number: Y995.966.

Who's Who in Journalism. New York: Journalism Pub. Co., 1925 and 1928. Call Number: Y995.98.