Dr. Elisabeth Fondren, an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the Division of Mass Communication in the Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University, has won the prestigious 2022 Mike S. Sweeney Award for her article, “The Mirror with a Memory”: The Great War through the Lens of Percy Brown, British Correspondent and Photojournalist (1914-1920).”
Dr. Fondren’s study examines the “path of crazy paving” of Percy A. Brown, a British working-class carpenter, figure skater, photo correspondent, and magazine journalist, who covered the 20th century’s first mass media war.
The Mike S. Sweeney Award recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous volume of the scholarly journal Journalism History. As the official academic journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division, Journalism History is the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States.
The History Division created the Sweeney Award in 2018 to honor Michael S. Sweeney, who served as editor of Journalism History from 2012 to 2018 and worked to ensure its future by initiating the transition from an independent publication to the official scholarly publication of the History Division.
Dr. Fondren will be honored during the History Division’s awards gala at this year’s AEJMC conference in Detroit.
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