Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize Recipients
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism is awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on any aspect of the history of journalism, concerning any area of the world, and any period. This prize recognizes the vital contributions that journalism history has made to our understanding of the past.
2019
Phoebe Musandu, Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press)
2018
Julia Guarneri, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Univ. of Chicago Press)
2017
Amelia Bonea, The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830-1900 (Oxford Univ. Press)
2019 Palmegiano Prize
Phoebe Musandu, Georgetown Univ., Qatar
Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press)
Pressing Interests is a carefully researched and sophisticated study of the development of newspapers in colonial Kenya. It is also an innovative case study of the multiple roles newspapers played in a multicultural colonial society. Sensitive to the internal differences among the diverse groups in the colony as well as to the conflicts between them, the book is an impressive contribution to the history of the press in Kenya and East Africa and to the understanding of the role newspapers and journalists played in the decolonization process.