Research Statement
My historical research primarily explores how journalists have reflected and created communities, especially in the American West. Examples include newspaper coverage of dam-building on the Colorado River and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Research Keywords
- Applied Ethics in the Media
- Journalism History
- Environmental Journalism
Presentations
- Glen Feighery, “Trauma Reporting Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese American Internment Camp Newspapers and Violence, 1942-1945.”. Presentation, Presented, 03/2024.
- Glen Feighery, ‘Truly Destiny’s Children’: Japanese American Internment Camp Newspapers and the Building of Communities, 1942-1943.” Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the American Journalism Historians Association. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/15/2023.
- Glen Feighery and David J. Vergobbi, “Security, Economy, Society, and Complexity: White Newspaper Coverage of Race in the West During the 1860s.” Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Civil War, and Free Expression. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/05/2021.
- Glen Feighery and David J. Vergobbi, “Press Roles and Functions: Expanding News, Building Communities.” Invited panel presentation for the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Civil War, and Free Expression. This was recorded for C-SPAN's American History TV. Presentation, Presented, 11/14/2020.
- “A ‘Moral Challenge’: Journalists, Joe McCarthy, and the Struggle for Truth, 1950-1955,” National Conference, American Journalism Historians Association . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/03/2019.
- "Questioning the Atom Masters: News Coverage of Above-Ground Nuclear Testing, 1951-1953," American Journalism Historians Association annual conference. Runner-up, Eberhard Award for Outstanding Paper on a Military History Topic. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/06/2016.
- Glen Feighery, “Water’s for Fighting: Environmental Journalism and the Colorado River Storage Project, 1954-1956.” Research in Progress presentation, American Journalism Historians Association. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2011.
- “ ‘A Light Out of This World’: Awe, Anxiety, and Routinization in Early Nuclear Test Coverage, 1951-1953,” Annual Convention (August 2010). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2010.
- Speaker on journalism ethics, Kiwanis Club of Salt Lake. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2010.
- “Covering the Duke Lacrosse Case: Professional Perspectives on Journalism Ethics,” International Communication Association Annual Conference. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/2009.
- “Talking About Katrina: How Journalists Discussed Ethics After the Storm and What They Learned,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2009.
- “On Nature and Norms: Early Environmental Reporting and Journalistic Objectivity,” American Journalism Historians Association National Conference. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2007.
- “Best Practices in Teaching Media Ethics,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2007.
- “Race, Class, and Katrina Coverage: We’ve Been Here Before.” For Hurricane Katrina: A Symposium on Race and Class in Modern America, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah. Presentation, Presented, 01/2007.
- “Two Visions of Responsibility: How National Commissions Contributed to Journalism Ethics, 1970-1975,” American Journalism Historians Association National Conference. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2005.
- “Snowboards and Slippery Slopes: Practicing Ethical Problem-Solving Under Pressure,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2005.
- “A Failure of Imagination: The 9/11 Commission, Terrorism Coverage, and Media Responsibility,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2005.
- “The More Things Change ... Utah Print Journalism from 1890 to 2005,” Utah State Historical Society. Presentation, Presented, 08/2005.
Geographical Regions of Interest
- Northern America
News coverage of environmental issues in the American West.
Publications
- Glen Feighery (2025). 'Now We Are One’: How Japanese American Internment Camp Newspapers Helped Create Communities, 1942-1943. American Journalism. Vol. 42. Accepted, 01/2025.
- Glen Feighery (2023). Wear the Blue Star: Frontier Values vs. Environmentalism in News Coverage of Colorado River Dams, 1954-1956. Journalism History 49, no. 1 (2023). Vol. 49.
Published, 01/19/2023.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2022.2161787 - Glen Feighery (2021). Teaching Our Journal: Journalists, Joe McCarthy, and the Struggle for Truth, 1950-1955. American Journalism.
Published, 08/2021.
http://www.american-journalism.org/teaching-our-jo... - Glen Feighery, “A ‘Moral Challenge’: Journalists, Joe McCarthy, and the Struggle for Truth, 1950-1955,” American Journalism 38, no. 2 (2021): 127-149.
Published, 07/2021.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2021.1912989 - Glen Feighery and David J. Vergobbi, “Press Roles and Functions: Community Building in the West,” in The Western Press in the Crucible of the Civil War War, ed. Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin van Tuyll (New York: Peter Lang. 2021). Published, 06/2021.
- Glen Feighery (2013). “Media Self-Criticism,” in Media Issues: Point/Counterpoint, ed. Jennifer D. Greer and Wm. David Sloan. (pp. 5-22). Vision Press. Published, 01/2013.
- Glen Feighery (2013). "Contacting the Family of a Killer: The Case of the Sensitive Reporter," in Media Ethics at Work, ed. Lee Anne Peck and Guy S. Reel . (pp. 205-214). Sage. Published, 01/2013.
- Glen Feighery, "'A Light Out of This World': Awe, Anxiety, and Routinization in Early Nuclear Test Coverage, 1951-1953," American Journalism 28, no. 2 (2011). Published, 10/2011.
- Glen Feighery, “Conversation and Credibility: Expanding and Improving Journalists’ Discussions of Ethics,” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 26, no. 1 (2011). Published, 05/2011.
- Glen Feighery, Marouf Hasian Jr., and Richard Rieke, “The Search for Social Justice and the Presumption of Innocence in the Duke University Lacrosse Case of 2006-07,” in Handbook of Communication Ethics (Routledge, 2010). Published, 12/2010.
- Glen Feighery, “Two Visions of Responsibility: How National Commissions Contributed to Journalism Ethics, 1963-1975,” Journalism & Communication Monographs 11, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 167-210. Published, 05/2009.
- David J. Vergobbi and Glen Feighery, “The Pioneer Press: 1800-1900” in Wm. David Sloan, ed., The Age of Mass Communication, 2nd ed. (Northport, Ala.: Vision Press, 2008), 177-97. Published, 01/2008.
- Cassandra Imfeld, Glenn W. Scott, and Glen Feighery, “Fraud Talk: An Analysis of Banks’ Online Efforts to Warn Against Phishing,” in New Media and Public Relations (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), 271-83. Published, 03/2007.
- Glen Feighery, “The Warren Report’s Forgotten Chapter: Press Response to Criticism of Kennedy Assassination Coverage,” American Journalism 20, no. 2 (2003): 83-101. Published, 07/2003.