Associate Professor - Journalism
School of Communication
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT
Contact: quprof@yahoo.com
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PUBLICATIONS
Books Published
Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press
Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2007, 208 pp.
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Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and other anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s.
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To uncover how journalists became targets of the anti-Communist witch hunt of the 1950s and how the newspaper industry responded, the book draws on previously secret FBI files, public and private archives, private papers, personal interviews, and transcripts from investigative committees.
Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media
New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, 386 pp.
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Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media
was the first book to evaluate factors that influenced how gays
and lesbians have been depicted in mainstream American news media
over the past 50 years. (Photo shows an unidentified protester outside ABC Television headquarters in New York City in 1974.)
The award-winning book is used by colleges and universities in courses in journalism, journalism history, political science, and U.S. history. (Photo shows New York Daily News coverage of the Stonewall Riots in June 1969.)
Book Chapters
"A Gift of Gab: How Independent Broadcasters Gave Gay and Lesbian Pioneers a Chance to be Heard," in
MediaQueered: Visibility and Its Discontents, Kevin Barnhurst ed.
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During the 1950s and 1960s, an era that considered homosexuality unapproachable for public discussion, several independent broadcast stations risked allowing gay and lesbian activists to appear on radio and television talk shows.
The broadcasts played an unusual role, beginning to pierce the unofficial veil of media silence that obscured the identity of the fledgling gay movement before the Gay Liberation Movement arose in 1969. (Photo shows Geraldo Rivera interviewing pioneering gay activist Jack Nichols in 1972.)
- "Mattachine Review," in the Encyclopedia of
American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture.,
Marc Stein, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2004. (Photo shows gay activist Morris Kight being interviewed by a Los Angeles television station in 1970.)
- "Coverage of Gay/Lesbian News" in the Encyclopedia of Journalism. Christopher H. Sterling (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming in early 2009
- "Gay/Lesbian News Media" in the Encyclopedia of Journalism. Christopher H. Sterling (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming in early 2009
- "Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)," in the Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture, Marc Stein (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2004.
- Shaver, Mary Alice and Edward Alwood, "Newspaper Labor Organizations
in the U.S.," in the Encyclopedia of the World Press,
Dennis Griffiths,ed. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003.
- "Journalism," in George E. Haggerty, Ed., Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia.
New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
Peer-Reviewed Journals
 "Watching the Watchdogs: Spying on Journalists in the 1940s" Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 84/1 (Spring 2007): 137-150. JMCQ is the top scholarly journal in the mass communication field. (To order)
Although lacking legal authority, the FBI spied on newspaper labor activists during the 1940s. Previously undisclosed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance as part of the agency's effort to monitor domestic subversives.
 "CBS Corresondent Winston Burdett and His Decision to Become a Goverment Witness in the Age of McCarthyism" American Communist History 5/2 (December 2006): 153-167. (To order)
Burdett claimed when he testified before an investigative committee in 1955 against former newsroom colleagues who had belonged to the Communist Party. He claimed that his appearance was voluntary and newspaper coverage celebrated his patriotism. FBI files examined in this study show that Burdett's primary motivation was a threat by goverment officials to deny his ability to travel abroad and end his illustrious broadcast career.
Book Reviews Authored
- Review of News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity by Laura Castaneda and Shannon Campbell, eds., Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 84/1 (Spring 2007): 190-92.
- Review of Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show by Bernard M. Timberg, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 80/4 (Winter 2003): 999-1000.
- Review of Rushed to Judgement: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior by David C. Barker, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 80/2 (Summer 2003): 477-79.
- Review of News Is People: The Rise of Local TV News and the Fall of News from New York by Craig M. Allen, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 78/4 (Winter 2001): 860-62.
Opinion-Editorial Articles
- "Waking Up to MRSA -- In A Czech Hospital in 2003," Hartford Courant, October 21, 2007, C-1.
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