Reviews:
Jewon Woo, “Working Children in the History of American Periodicals.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism, Vol. 33 no. 2, 2023, 192-199. project_muse_911656
Betsy Wood, Journal of American History June 2023, Vol. 110, No. 1, 151-52. 2023 06 JAH 110 1 Wood Review
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, “Revising the Newsboy,” Journal of Urban History, 2023. 2023 Gilfoyle JUH Revising the Newsboy
David Nasaw, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Winter 2023)Vol 16, No. 1, 160-62.
Harvey Schwartz, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Dec. 2022), 91-92.
Philip M. Glende, Journal of Social History, Nov. 2021 (Summer 2022), 1–2. Glende JSH
Cristina Groeger, “Demythologizing Newsboys—A Review of ‘Crying the News,'” The Metropole—the Official Blog of the Urban History Association, June 7. 2021.
James Schmidt, New England Quarterly 93:3 Sept. 2020, 533–535. Schmidt NEQ.
Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray, Journalism History 46:4 Dec. 2020, 376–78. Zborays JH.
Edward Kosner, “Street Corner Capitalists,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6, 2019. Kosner WSH
News:
Paul R. Spitzzeri, “Take it On Faith While Reading Between the Lines: A Letter from Pastor Charles F. Hutslar of Broadway Christian Church to Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles, 21 April 1916,” The Homestead Blog, April 21, 2022.
Betsy Wood, “The Best Books to Make You Excited about Labor History,” Shepherd, Dec. 2023.
Roy San Filippo, “Former Dispatcher staff member publishes new history of America’s news criers,” ILWU Dispatcher, Vol. 80, No. 11, Dec. 2022, p.7.
WILSONL, “Crying the News,” Academic Rants Blogpost, Nov. 9, 2022.
Agata Popęda, “Telling the Story of America’s Newsboys,” Monterey County Weekly, April 17, 2022.
Agata Popęda, “Born to a Story: How family history, and his childhood in Monterey, inspired Vincent DiGirolamo’s deep dive into the reality of America’s Newsboys,” Monterey County Weekly, April 14, 2022.
Matthew Wills, “Heroic Newsboys Funerals,” Jstor Daily, April 11, 2022.
Lisa Crawford Watson, “Newsboys: Inspired by the story of his Monterey father, author explores essence of street smarts,” Monterey Herald, Sept. 12, 2021, 2-3. Crawford Watson_ Herald_Essence of Street Smarts
Elaine Hesser, “Time to cozy up by the fireplace and enjoy some summer reading,” Carmel Pine Cone, Aug. 13, 2021, 19A, 24A.
Paul Erickson, “Childhood in America,” The Quarto, William Clements Library, No. 54 (Summer 2021).
Simon Sleight, “Understanding Experience: Approaches to the Histories of Children and Youth,” with Alastair Owens at the Centre for Childhood Cultures at Queen Mary University of London, April 22, 2021. I am touched by this generous mention of my book in Simon’s presentation.
Interviews:
Print:
“Clio Book Q&A: Vincent DiGirolamo,” Clio Among the Media: Newsletter of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Jan. 26, 2021.
Book Award Interview: Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys,” Historiography in Mass Communication, Vol. 7, no. 21 (2021), 41–51. vol. 7.1 Historiography
Lou Carlozo, “Historian Vincent DiGirolamo,” Fra Noi, Nov. 10, 2020.
Eve M. Kahn, “The Real History of Fake News: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo,” Marginalia—Los Angeles Review of Books, Oct. 23, 2020.
“Newsboys in America: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo” (Part 1, Part 2), Confessions of an ACA-FAN, Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, June 4-5, 2020.
Audio/Video:
“Newsboys,” One to One with Sheryl McCarthy, CUNY TV, June 29, 2021. 27 mins.
Axelbank Reports History and Today, Podcast #49: Vincent DiGirolamo — “Crying the News,” May 18, 2021. (46:00)
Fireside Chat online Book Talk, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Oct. 22, 2020. (59:46)
“A Nation of Newsboys,” Journalism History podcast, host Nick Hirshon, March 31, 2020. (33:20)
Beth Harpaz, “Newsboys: How Child Labor Helped Build the U.S. Newspaper Industry,” SUM, CUNY Graduate Center. New Books in History, New Books Network, Sept. 4, 2019. (27:46)
“Episode 71: Vincent DiGirolamo,” The Nostalgia Trap Podcast, hosted by historian David Parsons, July 16, 2017. (1:07:30)
“History of Newspaper Boys,” American History TV, C-Span3, April 7, 2017. (11:03)
Excerpts:
“Valor Roll: American Newsies in the Great War and the Flu Pandemic,” History News Network, June 13, 2021.
“The Voice of Young America,” American Heritage, Winter 2021, Vol. 65, Issue 9.
“The Newsboy—Son of the Forgotten Man,” Fireside Newsletter, The Living New Deal, April, 29, 2020.
The Page 99 Test, Oct. 8, 2019.
“Newsboys and Organized Labor,” Oxford Academic, Sept. 1, 2019.
Notices:
Meyer Alves, “Fight Night: West End Boxers Featured on the Old Boston Garden’s Opening Night,” The West End Museum, October 7, 2022.
Jim Beckerman, “On Labor Day, A Salute to the Hats that Defined a Generation,” North Jersey, com. Aug. 25, 2022.
Iván Molina Jiménez, “Los pregoneros y el río que nunca se devuelve,” (“Town Criers and the River that Never Returns,” Del Pasado y del Presente (febrero 17, 2020).Los_pregoneros_y_el_rio_que_nunca_se_dev
Arne K. Lang, “The Newsboy Boxer: Remnant of a Bygone Era,” The Sweet Science, Nov. 4, 2021.
“Baruch Professor Wins DeSantis Prize for Best Book on Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” Baruch College News Center, April 28, 2021.
Marina Manoukian, “The Untold Story of the Newsboys’ Strike of 1899,” Grunge, Jan. 15, 2021.
Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, You’re Wrong About podcast, “The Newsboys’ Strike of 1899 (Part 2),” Nov. 30, 2020. (49:18)
Marvin Olasky, “Perils of Publishing: A Cautionary Tale,” World Magazine, Nov. 5, 2020.
“30 Colleges With Current Professors Who Have Written The Best Books” Great Value Colleges, Oct. 1, 2020.
Annie Kapur, “10 Great Non-Fiction Novels I Have Read in 2020,” GEEKS, Sept, 23, 2020.
Joseph Bernt, Cannon Beach (Oregon) Library Gazette, Aug. 27, 2020.
Tony Rehagen, “What Will Become of Generation COVID?” Boston Globe, July 12, 2020.
“Baruch Professor Vincent DiGirolamo Wins Three Prestigious Book Awards,” CUNY, May 1, 2020.
Maury Thompson, “Glens Falls in 1920—Noodles Fagan,” medium.com, April 28, 2020.
“What Swann is Reading Right Now,” Swann Auction Galleries, March 31, 2020.
Greg Young, “Book Round-Up: Spies, Newsboys, and ‘America’s First Freedom Riders,'”
The Bowery Boys: New York City History, March 11, 2020.
“ON SECOND THOUGHT: Read All About It: Newsboys and Paper Delivery,” Greenville (Texas) Herald-Banner, Oct. 19, 2019.
Lectures:
“What Newsboys Can Tell Us About Gig Work, Fake News, and Social Media,” Montclair State University, Nov. 9, 2022.
“Adventures in Newsboydom; or Periodical Studies from the Pavement Up,” City of Print, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, June 23, 2020.
“New York City and Broadway in the 1960s,” Lectures in History, C-Span, Nov. 6, 2017.