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.
2022
Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, eds., Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (Univ. of Illinois Press)
2021
Vanessa Freije, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke Univ. Press)
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)
2022 Palmegiano Prize
Kathy Roberts Forde, University of South Carolina, and Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota, editors
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (Univ. of Illinois Press)
Journalism and Jim Crow, through a series of thematically and theoretically related research essays, illuminates the role of the white southern press as a builder, and not merely a bystander/observer, in the construction of racially segregated institutions and norms. Juxtaposing this view of the white press as a political actor furthering and maintaining systemic racism is rich material demonstrating how the Black press worked to serve the prized American press function as a bulwark of democratic and egalitarian ideals.