Kathy Roberts Forde
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Roberts Forde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy Roberts |
| FAMILY NAME | Forde |
| SIGNATURE | FORDE K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reckoning with Reconstruction: The Limits and Horizons of US Journalism History
This essay proposes a Reconstruction-centered approach to US journalism history that places the overthrow of Reconstruction and the rise of state-level authoritarian regimes in the US South more fully within the field's analytical frame. We contend that journalism history has long been productively oriented toward narratives of democratic expansion, governance, and reform—an emphasis that has generated rich insights into the press's role in publi…
The Ida B. Wells Effect: A Novel Computational Analysis of US Newspaper Lynching Coverage, 1805–1963
A Change in Time: American Journalism ’s 2013 Transition to a Commercial Publisher
Change is never easy, especially for historians who have their feet firmly planted in the past. So, in 2013, when American Journalism editor Barbara G. Friedman and associate editor Kathy Roberts Forde proposed moving from independent university presses to a commercial academic publisher, there was apprehension. But theirs was a utilitarian goal: creating a solid path for journalism and mass communication scholars to achieve tenure and promotion …
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
After Reconstruction, white publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South that lasted for generations. Black journalists fought these regimes as they were being built. The stakes could not have been higher: The future of liberal democracy in the newly restored United States was on the line. Journalism & Jim Crow is the first extended work to exa…
Communication and the Civil Sphere: Discovering Civil Society in Journalism Studies
This essay is an effort to introduce civil sphere theory to fellow communication scholars. The primary goals are to sketch its central concepts and theoretical framework, demonstrate its explanatory power through reference to a historical case study, and suggest how it can open new pathways of inquiry and understanding for those who study communication and social movements. The secondary goal is to persuade scholars of journalism studies that the…
JCI, Civil Sphere Theory Issue
The Fire Next Time in the civil sphere: Literary journalism and justice in America 1963
As a form of communication that can inspire solidarity through appeals to democratic ideals, literary journalism can play a constitutive role in social and political struggles for justice and freedom in democratic societies. In 1963, at a pivotal moment in the US Civil Rights Movement, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time helped many Americans, including those in the highest offices of the federal government, understand the moral good of the goals …
Book Notes
Discovering the Explanatory Report in American Newspapers
This study of the explanatory report attempts to make a meaningful contribution to the history of the American newspaper by synthesizing existing historical knowledge of the form, documenting the history of the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, and analyzing the explanatory reports that have won the Pulitzer Prize in this category. This study also offers insights from that history to suggest how newspapers in America might improve their p…
The Fire Next Time in the civil sphere: Literary journalism and justice in America 1963
As a form of communication that can inspire solidarity through appeals to democratic ideals, literary journalism can play a constitutive role in social and political struggles for justice and freedom in democratic societies. In 1963, at a pivotal moment in the US Civil Rights Movement, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time helped many Americans, including those in the highest offices of the federal government, understand the moral good of the goals …
Communication and the Civil Sphere: Discovering Civil Society in Journalism Studies
This essay is an effort to introduce civil sphere theory to fellow communication scholars. The primary goals are to sketch its central concepts and theoretical framework, demonstrate its explanatory power through reference to a historical case study, and suggest how it can open new pathways of inquiry and understanding for those who study communication and social movements. The secondary goal is to persuade scholars of journalism studies that the…
Discovering the Explanatory Report in American Newspapers
This study of the explanatory report attempts to make a meaningful contribution to the history of the American newspaper by synthesizing existing historical knowledge of the form, documenting the history of the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, and analyzing the explanatory reports that have won the Pulitzer Prize in this category. This study also offers insights from that history to suggest how newspapers in America might improve their p…
The Ida B. Wells Effect: A Novel Computational Analysis of US Newspaper Lynching Coverage, 1805–1963
Discovering the Explanatory Report in American Newspapers
This study of the explanatory report attempts to make a meaningful contribution to the history of the American newspaper by synthesizing existing historical knowledge of the form, documenting the history of the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, and analyzing the explanatory reports that have won the Pulitzer Prize in this category. This study also offers insights from that history to suggest how newspapers in America might improve their p…
Book Notes
The Fire Next Time in the civil sphere: Literary journalism and justice in America 1963
As a form of communication that can inspire solidarity through appeals to democratic ideals, literary journalism can play a constitutive role in social and political struggles for justice and freedom in democratic societies. In 1963, at a pivotal moment in the US Civil Rights Movement, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time helped many Americans, including those in the highest offices of the federal government, understand the moral good of the goals …
Communication and the Civil Sphere: Discovering Civil Society in Journalism Studies
This essay is an effort to introduce civil sphere theory to fellow communication scholars. The primary goals are to sketch its central concepts and theoretical framework, demonstrate its explanatory power through reference to a historical case study, and suggest how it can open new pathways of inquiry and understanding for those who study communication and social movements. The secondary goal is to persuade scholars of journalism studies that the…
JCI, Civil Sphere Theory Issue
Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
After Reconstruction, white publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South that lasted for generations. Black journalists fought these regimes as they were being built. The stakes could not have been higher: The future of liberal democracy in the newly restored United States was on the line. Journalism & Jim Crow is the first extended work to exa…
A Change in Time: American Journalism ’s 2013 Transition to a Commercial Publisher
Change is never easy, especially for historians who have their feet firmly planted in the past. So, in 2013, when American Journalism editor Barbara G. Friedman and associate editor Kathy Roberts Forde proposed moving from independent university presses to a commercial academic publisher, there was apprehension. But theirs was a utilitarian goal: creating a solid path for journalism and mass communication scholars to achieve tenure and promotion …
The Ida B. Wells Effect: A Novel Computational Analysis of US Newspaper Lynching Coverage, 1805–1963
Reckoning with Reconstruction: The Limits and Horizons of US Journalism History
This essay proposes a Reconstruction-centered approach to US journalism history that places the overthrow of Reconstruction and the rise of state-level authoritarian regimes in the US South more fully within the field's analytical frame. We contend that journalism history has long been productively oriented toward narratives of democratic expansion, governance, and reform—an emphasis that has generated rich insights into the press's role in publi…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Civil society (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works)