Publications,  Reviews  and  Conference Presentations

 Refereed Publications

•    Rodgers, R.R. (2010) The press, pulpit and public opinion: The clergy’s conferral of power and the concomitant call for a journalism of advocacy in an age of reform. Journal of Media and Religion 9 (1), 1-18.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2010, March) The press and public relations through the lens of the periodicals, 1890-1930. Public Relations Review 36, 50-55.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2009, Winter)  ‘Goodness isn’t news’: The Sheldon Edition and the national conversation defining journalism’s responsibility to society. Journalism History, 204-215.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, Summer/Fall) OhmyNews and its citizen journalists as avatars of a post-modern marketplace of ideas. Journal of Global Mass Communication. 1, (3/4): 271-292.
  
• Link to PDF version of journal at journal Web site (Article begins on Page 271)
  

• Rodgers, R.R. (2008) Collier’s criticism of the newspaper press during the Norman Hapgood years, 1902-1913. American Journalism, 25 (4) 7-36.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007) Journalism is dead, long live journalism: Exploring new ways of making meaning in the realm of the connected computer. Explorations in Media Ecology, 6 (2).

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007) The problems of journalism:  An annotated bibliography of press criticism in Editor & Publisher, 1901-1922, Media History Monographs, 9(2), 1-40.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007) “Journalism is a loose-jointed thing”: A content analysis of Editor & Publisher’s discussion of journalistic conduct prior to the Canons of Journalism, 1901-1922, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 22(1), 66-82.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004). From a boon to a threat: Print media coverage of Project Chariot, 1958-1962. Journalism History, 30(1), 11–19.

• Rodgers, R.R., Hallock S., Gennaria, M., & Wei, F. (2004). Two papers in joint operating agreement publish meaningful editorial diversity. Newspaper Research Journal, 25(4), 104-109.

 Book Reviews

• Rodgers, R.R. (2009, in press) Review of “Journalism 1908: Birth of a Profession,” edited by Betty Houchin Winfield. (University of Missouri Press, 2007) 356 pages. Journalism &  Mass Communication Quarterly.
  

• Rodgers, R.R. (2009, Spring) Review of “The Scripps Newspapers Go to War,” 1914-1918 by Dale Zacher. (University of Illinois Press, 2008) 285 pages. Journalism History.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2009, Winter) Review of “Supermedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World,” by Charlie Beckett. (Blackwell/Wiley, 2008) 160 pages. Newspaper Research Journal.
  
  
• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, Winter) Review of “Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective,” edited by Stephen J. A. (Ward and Herman Wasserman: Heinemann, 2008) 180 pages. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, Summer) Review of  “Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace,” by Karla K. Gower (Northwestern University Press, 2007) 300 pages. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007) Review of  “– 30 – : The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper, edited and with an introduction by Charles M. Madigan (Ivan R. Dee, 2007) 256 pages. Newspaper Research Journal 29(1).

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007, Spring) Review of “The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms” by W. Joseph Campbell (Routledge, 2006) 317 pages. Newspaper Research Journal.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2006, Fall) Review of “Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism” by Eric Burns (Public Affairs, 2006) 384 pages. Newspaper Research Journal.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2006, Spring) Review of “Journalism: The Democratic Craft,” edited by G. Stuart Adam and Roy Peter Clark (Oxford University Press, 2006) 393 pages. Newspaper Research Journal.

 Professional Conference Presentations 

• Rodgers, R.R. (2009, October). The roots of enmity: Public relations and the disintermediation of the press, presented to the annual meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association, Birmingham, Alabama.
  
  
• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, October). The Social Gospel and the news, presented to the annual meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association, Seattle, Washington.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, August). The press and public relations from the periodicals’ point of view in the early twentieth century, invited paper presented to the Magazine Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2008, August). The press, pulpit and public opinion: The clergy’s conferral of power and the concomitant call for a journalism of advocacy in an age of reform, presented to the Religion and Media Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, Illinois.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007, October). The old order and the new: Visions of the newspaper’s past vs. its present, 1890-1923, presented to the 27th American Journalism Historians Association annual conference in Richmond, Virginia. Honorable mention.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007, August). Desiderata across the decades: Conversations about a civic-minded model of newspapering, presented to the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2007, August). ‘Goodness isn’t news’: The Sheldon Edition and the national conversation defining journalism’s responsibility to society, presented to the Religion and Media Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2006, August). ‘The newspaper with a conscience’: Discourse on journalism’s responsibility to society and civic life in the late 19^th and early 20^th century, presented to the Citizen and Civic Journalism Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, San Francisco, California.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2005, August). OhmyNews and its citizen journalists as avatars of a post-modern marketplace of ideas, presented to the Civic Journalism Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, San Antonio, Texas.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2005, August). ‘Keeping step to the music of the drums’: Editor & Publisher and the problems of journalism in the war years and beyond, 1914-1923, presented to the History Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, San Antonio, Texas.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2005, August). ‘Journalism is a loose-jointed thing’: A content analysis of Editor & Publisher’s discussion of journalistic conduct prior to the Canons of Journalism, 1901-1922, presented to the Newspaper Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, San Antonio, Texas.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004, August). Tainting of the stream of pure news: Collier’s criticism of the newspaper press during the Norman Hapgood years, 1902-1913, presented to the Magazine Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004, August). Double crossing democracy? The civic vision vs. vertical integration in the debate over the cross-ownership ban, presented to the Civic Journalism Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004, August). The genteel magazines’ criticism of the daily newspaper press, 1890-1910, presented to the History Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004, August). Technology outruns the law: Newspapers and the e-mail public records quagmire, presented to the Newspaper Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2004, March). Tainting of the stream of pure news: Collier’s criticism of the newspaper press during the Norman Hapgood years, 1902-1913, presented to the Magazine Division at the annual Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Southeast Regional Colloquium, Tampa, Florida.

• Rodgers, R.R., Hallock S., Gennaria, M., & Wei, F. (2003, August). The paradox of editorial diversity: A content analysis of the Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post, presented to the Newspaper Division at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Kansas City, Kansas.

• Rodgers, R.R. (2003, August). New York Times and national magazine coverage of Project Chariot: 1958-1962, presented to the Science Communication Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Kansas City, Kansas.