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âExtra! Extra! is both a cultural and social history that reveals something about child labor and arguments over child labor. With great sources, amazing images, and a very readable style, this book will serve journalism historians, especially those with an interest in gender issues in journalism and journalism history.ââ"Linda Steiner, professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland

âExtra! Extra! When we hear those words, sounds of newsboys in Disneyâs Newsies come to mind. Drawing upon rich primary sources, award-winning scholar Autumn Lorimer Linford offers a transformative corrective to our popular understanding of newsies by writing young working-class girls, women, and people of color into the narrative.ââ"Amber Roessner, cultural historian and public memory expert at the University of Tennesseeâs School of Journalism and Media

âAutumn Lorimer Linford has skillfully woven together evidence from diaries, labor records, and popular culture to tell the story of newsgirls, who claimed public space a century ago but then disappeared from American memory. Their voices and faces fill the pages of this engaging book, which restores these girls and young women to journalism history, labor history, and social history. Linfordâs research also invites us to consider how girlsâ lives long have been debated as symbols of cultural anxieties, while their own experiences remain in the shadows.ââ"Carolyn Kitch, historian and Laura H. Carnell Professor in the Department of Journalism and the College of Media and Communication at Temple University