EDUCATION
2021 Ph.D. Media and Public Affairs
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Dissertation: “In the War for Democracy, the Press Must Lead: American
Journalists in WWI and the Agent Model of Government-Press Relations”
2021 recipient of American Journalism Historian Association’s Most Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
2015 M.A. in Mass Communication
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Master’s thesis: Reporting for the State Department: Carl W. Ackerman’s
Cooperation with Government During WWI
2010 B.A. in History
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Research Interests:
Government war propaganda; twentieth-century media history; government-press relations in war; democracy and journalism in war
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles, encyclopedia entries and book reviews
2019 Fondren, E., Hamilton, J. M. and McCune, M. M. (2019). Parachute Journalism. In T. P., Vos and Hanusch, F. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia
of Journalism Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., doi.org/10.1002/97811188 41570.iejs0178.
2018 Hamilton, J. M. and McCune, M. M. (2018). [Review of the book American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting, by
Dubbs, C.]. The Historian, 80(4), 825-826. doi:10.1111/hisn.13027.
2018 Fondren, E. and McCune, M. M. (2018). Archiving and Preserving Social Media at the Library of Congress: Institutional and Cultural
Challenges to Build a Twitter Archive. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture (PDT&C), 47(2), 33-44. doi: 10.1515/pdtc-2018-0011.
2017 McCune, M. M. and Hamilton, J. M. (2017). ‘My object is to be of service to you’: Carl Ackerman and the Wilson administration during ].
World War I. Intelligence and National Security, 32(6), 743-757. doi: 10.1080/02684527.2017.1294643.
Other publications
2019 McCune, M. M. and Hamilton, J.M. (2019, June 27). Here’s a 1918 role model for Sarah Sanders’ successor as White House press secretary.
The Conversation.
2018 Hamilton, J. M. and McCune, M. M. (2018, September 13). Lessons from White House disinformation a century ago: ‘It’s dangerous to
believe your own propaganda.’ The Conversation.
2016 Hamilton, J. M. and McCune, M. M. (2016, March 15). One hundred years of ‘birther’ arguments. The Conversation.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Papers Presented
2020 “The Nation's First Press Secretary: Ray Stannard Baker and the Lessons of Publicity at the Paris Peace Conference,” with John Maxwell
Hamilton, AEJMC National Conference, August 6-9. (Awarded Top Extended Abstract in History Division).
2020 “The President and His Loyal Journalist: Government-Press Relations Under the Woodrow Wilson Administration,” Research-in-progress,
with John Maxwell Hamilton, Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, March 14.
2019 “Toward the Benefit of the Allies: Patriotism, Propaganda, and the Government-Press Relationship of the Great War,” AEJMC National
Conference, August 7-10.
2018 “Stanley Washburn and the Agency Model of Government-Press Relations in the Great War,” AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, March 8-10.
(Awarded Top Student Paper in History Division).
2017 “Archiving, Agency & Power: Institutional Governance of Digital Media Illustrated by the Library of Congress' Twitter Archive," with
Elisabeth Fondren, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, March 9-12.
(Awarded Second Place Paper in Open Division).
2017 “A Gap in the Shield? Reporter’s Privilege in Civil Defamation Lawsuits, 2005-2016,” AEJMC National Conference, August, 9-12.
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2020 Research presentation at LSU Manship School’s Brownbag Research Session, “The Loyal Journalists of WWI,” March 10, 2020
2018 Meghan Menard McCune, “Progressivism, Patriotism and Propaganda: The Government-Press Relationship During the Great War,” Capitol
Park Museum Lecture, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 11, 2018
2017 Co-moderator of public event by LSU Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs, “Propaganda: From Nazis to ISIS”
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs
Manship School of Mass Communication
Louisiana State University
2016 Phi Kappa Phi
Louisiana State University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
Media Writing (Fall 2020)
Media Ethics and Social Responsibility (Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018)
Feature Writing (Fall 2017)
Mass Comm Philosophy and Principles (Teaching Assistant, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
Academic Programs Abroad, Louisiana State University
LSU in D.C. Summer Abroad Program, (2017, 2018)
Media Ethics and Social Responsibility (Instructor of Record)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014-2016 Graduate Research Assistant to John Maxwell Hamilton
Manship School of Mass Communication,
Louisiana State University
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs
Research