Book/Academic
Smith, M. R. (2011). A Free press, Free hand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington, 1858-1869. Grand Rapids, MI: Edenridge. [Nominated for the Tankard Award for Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for 2012.]
Smith, M. R. (2002). The Jesus newspaper. Lanham, Md: University Press of America.
Books, other
Smith, M.R. (2005). FeatureWriting.Net. Bloomington, IN.: Epistelogic.
Smith, M. R. (1994). Yesterday’s Waynesboro, A pictorial history. Shippensburg, Pa. 
Smith, M. R. (1991). Worship in Franklin County: Sketches of faith from the mid-1700s
to the Civil War, Shippensburg, Pa: University Press.
Book chapters
Smith, M. R. (forthcoming). Charles M. Sheldon’s Jesus Newspaper and the Reformist Impulse in Evangelical Publications. In Robert H. Woods Jr. (Ed.),Evangelicals and Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO Books.
Smith, M. R. (2007). Labels in Media Bias. In W. D. Sloan (Ed.), Media Bias: Finding It,Fixing It Media Bias. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishing.
Smith, M. R. (2002). Editorial cartoons and comics. In W. D. Sloan & L. M. Parcell (Eds.), American journalism, history, principles, practices (pp. 343-349). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Keeler, J., Tarpley, J. D, & Smith, M. R., (1999). The National Courier: A Case Study in Selling Religious Ideology as News. In W. D. Sloan (Ed.), Media and Religion in American History (pp. 275-290). Birmingham, AL: Vision Press.
Smith, M. R. (1998). The apologetics of Chesterton and Lewis in a world marked by disbelief. In Hill, R. (Ed.), Inklings forever, A collection of essays (pp. 130-133). Upland, IN: Taylor University.
Smith, M. R. (1994). Assistive technology and software, liberating all of us. In J. A. Nelson (Ed.), The disabled, the media and the information age (127-144). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Articles in professional journals
Smith, M. R. (Fall, 2011). Fail fast, fail cheap: The religion news of The Daily Record.Grassroots Editor 52(3),10-14.
http://www.iswne.org/publications/grassroots_editor/fall-vol-no/pdf_3ef3d2c0-34c8-11e1-b682-001871e3ce6c.html Click here to retrieve the PDF of the article.
Smith, M. R. & Lilley, M. (2008, Winter). The seven questions and The Daily Record.Grassroots Editor, 49(4), 19-20.
Click here to read about a community newspaper experiment that asked sources seven questsions.
Smith, M. R. (2008, Fall). Hyperlocalism and The Daily Record. Grassroots Editor, 49(3), 12-17. 
Click here to read about hyperlocalism and The Daily Record of Dunn, N.C.
Smith, M. R. (1999, Summer). My Newspaper is older than your newspaper! American Journalism, 16(3), 99-101.
Smith, M. R. (1998, Spring). Extra! Extra! Pennsylvania’s Tim Hughes offers old and rare newspapers for sale. American Journalism, 15(2), 101-104.
Refereed article in referred proceedings
Smith, M.R. and Brown, W. (2004, Summer). World Magazine’s News Coverage and News Agenda Setting. Selected Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of Faith and Communication, 87-93.
Refereed articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
Smith, M. R. (2004, Spring). Fantasy theme analysis in the Interplay of Charles M. Sheldon. The Journal of Media and Religion. 3(1), 57-72.
Smith, M. R. (1996, Spring). Postmodernism influences on modern American, Journalism news conventions. Online Journal of Communication, 1(3).
Smith, M. R. (1996, March). Culpability Theory and the role of the press in covering a hazardous waste proposal: A case study, Journal of Mediated Communication, 11(1), 73-95.
Smith, M. R. (1995, October). Consensus building: A prescriptive approach for risk communication. Journal of Mediated Communication, 10(3), 29-52.
Smith, M. R. (1995, March). International Religious Broadcasting and the Need for Audience Research. Journal of Mediated Communication, 10(1), 35-53.
Keefer, J.D. & Smith, M. R. (1993, February). Newspaper employment of journalists with disabilities. Newspaper Research Journal, 13(4), 40-49.
Smith, M. R. (1992, Spring). The ADA, congress and the press. News Computing Journal, 7(4), 39-49.
Smith, M. R. (1991, Fall). Audiotex: Its popularity and problems, 900 numbers in the 1990s. News Computing Journal, 7(3), 15-31.
Smith, M. R. (1991, Winter). Language use affects coverage of people with disabilities.Journalism Educator, 45(4), 4-11.
Encyclopedia entries
Smith, M.R. (2006). Protestantism, Conservative. In D. Stout (Ed.)Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire.
Smith, M.R. (2006). Proselytizing. In D. Stout (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire.
Smith, M. R. (1999). Cal Thomas. In M.D. Murray (Ed.) Encyclopedia of TelevisionNews (p. 254). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.
Smith, M. R. (1999). Richard Valerini. In M.D. Murray (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Television News (p. 266). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.
Smith, M. R. (1999). Sander Vanocur. In M.D. Murray (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Television News (p. 268). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.
Smith, M. R. (1999). George F. Will. In M.D. Murray (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Television News (p. 282). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.
Essays
Smith, M. R. (2008). An internet alternative to regular radio. In Robert H. Woods Jr. and Quentin Schultze (Eds.) Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Smith, M. R. (2008). Church conflicts are big news—when they involve Sex. In Robert H. Woods Jr. and Quentin Schultze (Eds.) Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Smith, M. R. (2008). Get your mojo workin’ in local news. In Robert H. Woods Jr. and Quentin Schultze (Eds.) Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Smith, M. R. (2008). HWJRN = WWJD? In Robert H. Woods Jr. and Quentin Schultze (Eds.) Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Smith, M. R. (2008). News + anything = bias. In Robert H. Woods Jr. and Quentin Schultze (Eds.) Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Academic book review
Smith, M. R. (2004, Fall). [Review of the book Inside the Pentagon PapersAmerican Journalism. 21(4), 130-132.
Smith, M. R. (2003, Summer). [Review of the book Beyond the Barricades, Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press]. American Journalism, 20(3), 110-112.
Bibliography in peer-refereed journal
Smith, M. R. (1995, Spring). Media and disability bibliography project. Disability Studies Quarterly, 15(2), 30-43.
Smith, M. R. (1995, Spring). Media and disability policy: An annotated bibliography.Disability Studies Quarterly, 15(2), 22-26.
