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.
2020
Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford Univ. Press)
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)
2020 Palmegiano Prize
Vincent DiGirolamo, Baruch College, City University of New York
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford Univ. Press)
In exploring the exigencies of the newspaper industry and capitalism’s exploitation of child workers, Vincent DiGirolamo’s meticulously researched study traces “young toilers in the cause of truth,” starting from the first anonymous enslaved boy who handed out the news in the American colonies through to the last youth newspaper hawkers found at the end of the “American Century.” DiGirolamo masterfully contributes to debates in childhood studies, labor and economic history, and media history.