The History Division set the following goals for 2012:

• Expand the Media History Exchange (MHX) platform as a site for social networking, paper submission and judging, and archiving scholarship.
• Cultivate a network of members willing to share their expertise, ideas, inspiration or strategies in teaching media history in mentoring others new to the field.
• Develop ways of attracting young scholars and growing our membership.
• Increase the amount of member-generated content in the Division’s newsletter, Clio.
• Identify and explain what it means to be a History Division member and the breadth and depth of our scholarship.
• Articulate to a broad public the importance of historical knowledge in thinking about and solving contemporary problems of journalism, media and communication.
• Support the growth and stability of the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, as well as other opportunities for presentations of scholarship.
• Broaden the History Division’s conference programming to serve the interests of both the Division’s membership and AEJMC’s broader membership.
• Promote the Division’s tradition of organizing high-quality research, teaching and PF&R panels for the 2013 conference.