The History Division welcomes panel proposals for the 2025 AEJMC conference in San Francisco, Calif., August 6 – 10. The theme for next year’s event is “Leading in Times of Momentous Change: Individual and Collective Opportunities.” Panel proposals can be submitted via this link.

The History Division is one of the original divisions of AEJMC, having been established in 1966, and supports research into a variety of topics related to the journalism and mass communication industry, including but not limited to:

• the newspaper industry (newspapers, editors, publishers, and reporters)
• the broadcasting and cable industry (individual networks, stations, anchors, and reporters)
• photojournalism and photography
• advertising (advertising agencies, practitioners, campaigns)
• public relations ( agencies, corporations, campaigns, practitioners, techniques and tactics)
• media technologies (computerization, emerging digital technologies, and the early Internet)

Some History Division members focus on the history of media relationships with the government and other power-wielding entities, and some members focus on the histories of technologies from the printing press, the telegraph and the typewriter, to the Internet, while others focus issues of culture, power, and longstanding inequities around race. 

The History Division generally accepts and hosts or co-hosts three types of panel proposals each year: Professional Freedom & Responsibility (PF&R), Teaching, and Research.