Pamela E. Walck, Editor
Pamela E. Walck, an associate professor of multiplatform journalism at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the author of a chapter in Other Voices: Politics, Culture, and the Irish Diaspora Press in America (University of Syracuse Press), which was named a finalist for the 2022 Tankert Award at AEJMC. She has also published several journal articles and book chapters examining journalism pedagogy as well as race relations and media during World War II. She is currently writing her first book, the forthcoming, Voices of the Pittsburgh Courier: Mrs. Robert Vann, and the Men and Women of America’s ‘Best’ Weekly. A 16-year veteran of the newsroom, she earned her Ph.D. in mass communication at Ohio University.
Nicholas Hirshon, Associate Editor
Nicholas Hirshon, an assistant professor of communication at William Paterson University, is the former Digital Media Review Editor for AJ. Hirshon is the author of We Want Fish Sticks: The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). His research on the history of sports media in New York has appeared in American Journalism, Journalism History, and the International Journal of the History of Sport. A former reporter for the New York Daily News, Hirshon earned a Master’s at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a Ph.D. in mass communication from Ohio University.
Matthew Pressman, Book Review Editor
Matthew Pressman, an assistant professor of journalism at Seton Hall University, is the author of On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News (Harvard University Press, 2018), a history of American journalism’s transformation in the 1960s and 1970s, and is currently researching a book on the history of the New York Daily News. He also won AJHA’s 2020 Rising Scholar Award. Pressman earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Boston University. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he was an assistant editor and online columnist at Vanity Fair.
Lisa Bolz, Digital Media Review Editor
Lisa Bolz is an associate professor at CELSA, the graduate school of communication and journalism at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. She earned her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Münster and from Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on French and German journalism history, digital transformations in journalism, digital communication and digital research methods.
Hannah LeComte, Copy Editor
Hannah LeComte will begin working on her Ph.D. in Public History at George Mason University in fall 2023. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history, with emphases on women, gender, and sexuality through mass media and collective memory.
Zakiya Moses, Editorial Assistant
Zakiya Moses is an M.F.A. candidate in the Media Department at Duquesne University.