Books
Gonzalez, Juan, and Joseph Torres. News for All the People. New York, Verso, 2011.
Baldasty, Gerald. The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Pickard, Victor. Democracy without Journalism? New York, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Houchin Winfield, Betty. Journalism 1908. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri Press, 2008.
Pressman, Matthew. On Press: The Liberal Values that Shaped the News. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2018.
The Commission on Freedom of the Press (a.k.a. “Hutchins Commission”). A Free and Responsible Press. University of Chicago Press, 1947.
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (a.k.a. “Kerner Commission”). Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968.
Wells, Ida B. A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Chicago, Donohue & Henneberry, 1895.
Lloyd, Mark. Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America. Urbana, Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Anonymous (likely Lule, Jack). Understanding Media and Culture. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Edition, 2016, https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/, https://www.lehigh.edu/~jl0d/.