Writing & editing

I’ve written and edited a variety of work, both journalistic and scholarly, for both articles and books. 

Some recent scholarly work

Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon. “Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 (2nd edition)” American Journalism, 2023, pp. 381-383.

“The Magazine that Made Me: School Age.” The Journal of Magazine Media vol. 22, nos. 1–2. March 2022.

Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon and Charles Whitaker, editors. Curating Culture: How 20th Century Magazines Influenced America. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon. “From Marginal to Mainstream: Vegetarian Magazines vs. the Standard American Diet.” Curating Culture: How 20th Century Magazines Influence America, edited by Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin and Charles Whitaker. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Currie Sivek, Susan and Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin. “Where Do Facts Matter? The Digital Paradox in Magazines’ Fact-Checking Practices.”  Journalism Research in Practice: Perspectives on Change, Challenges, and Solutions, edited by By Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. and Bonnie Brennen. Routledge, 2020, pp. 113-117.

Bloyd-Peshkin, Sharon and Charles Whitaker. “On Johnson’s Shoulders: The Lessons and Legacy of Ebony magazine.” The Handbook of Magazine Studies, edited by Miglena Sternadori and Tim Holmes. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, pp. 146-153.

Some recent journalism

“‘Girl, You Wrote That!’ Some StreetWise vendors don’t just sell the magazine–they write for it.” South Side Weekly. Sept. 12, 2023

“It’s all about the process: teaching solutions journalism.” The Whole Story: Ideas and Dispatches from the Solutions Journalism Network. March 15, 2022

“What I learned from teaching solutions journalism during a terrible, horrible, very bad, no good year.” The Whole Story: Ideas and Dispatches from the Solutions Journalism Network. January 15, 2021

“Help! How do you adapt a solutions journalism course for online teaching in these uncertain times?” The Whole Story: Ideas and Dispatches from the Solutions Journalism Network. August 7, 2020

“Why We Didn’t Go Canoeing today.” Chicago Sun-Times. April 2, 2020.

“The Sun is Shining on Solar.” Realtor magazine. March/April 2020

“The elephant in the room: Chicago journalists grapple with the future of news.” Gateway Journalism Review, March 3, 2020.