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Call for Papers: AMERICAN JOURNALISM HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

The American Journalism Historians Association invites paper entries, panel proposals, and abstracts of research in progress on any facet of media history for its 38th annual convention to be held October 3-5, in Dallas, Texas. More information on the 2019 AJHA convention is available at https://ajha.wildapricot.org.

The deadline for all submissions is June 1, 2019.

The AJHA views journalism history broadly, embracing print, broadcasting, advertising, public relations, and other forms of mass communication that have been inextricably intertwined with the human past. Because the AJHA requires presentation of original material, research papers, research in progress, and panels submitted to the convention may not have been submitted to or accepted by another convention or publication. Research submitted for the conference must be significantly different than previous work, meaning the submitted research would represent new archival research, interviews, or content analysis that has not been presented before at a conference and represents a new departure from prior presented or published work. Research that previously was presented as a research in progress presentation at an AJHA convention or the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, however, may be submitted as a research paper. Each author may submit at most one paper, one research in progress, and one panel.

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Journalism Historians Meet in New York

By Brian Creech, Temple University, Joint Journalism & Communication History Conference, tuf31190@temple.edu

Photo Cutline: Elliot King with the top research-in-progress panelists (L to r): Juraj Kittler, Richard Lee, Oren Soffer, Elliot King, Ashley Walter, and Anne Lee

The annual Joint Journalism and Communication Historians Conference met at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on Saturday, March 9, 2019. This year’s conference featured a number of first-time presenters: undergraduates, graduate students, and several international presenters.

The day was marked by collegiality and the exchange of ideas, and ended with a special screening of the documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, featuring a panel discussion, moderated by Wayne Dawkins of Morgan State University, about Pulitzer with both filmmakers and several expert historians featured in the film, including Andie Tucher of Columbia University and Chris Daly of Boston University.

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Teaching-contest Winners Prepare Mini-tutorials for Conference

By Kristin L. Gustafson, University of Washington Bothell, Teaching Standards Chair,
gustaf13@uw.edu

Five scholars will share their mini, hands-on teaching modules featuring original and tested transformative teaching ideas and practices that address pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and/or justice in August. Come ready to learn more about how each teaching practice might be transferred to your institution or classes and what evidence points to marked changes for students.

I will moderate the panel at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Toronto, Canada. The session, held at 9:15–10:45 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, features these winners of the History Division’s inaugural Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History teaching-idea competition:

  • Nick Hirshon, William Paterson University
  • Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University
  • Kimberley Mangun, University of Utah
  • Shearon Roberts, Xavier University of Louisiana      
  • Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee

Here are a few details about the projects and practices taken from the winning entries.

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Southeast Colloquium/Civil Rights Symposium highlight historical research

Kenneth Campbell, chair of the Media & Civil Rights History Symposium, presents the Ronald T. and Gayle D. Farrar Award to Gwyneth Mellinger. (Photo by Lewis Zeigler, University of South Carolina)

The University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications hosted AEJMC’s 44th Southeast Colloquium March 7-9, in conjunction with the school’s Media & Civil Rights History Symposium.

The Colloquium program consisted of research paper sessions and panels from six AEJMC divisions, including History. Cayce Myers (Virginia Tech) chaired the research competition for the History Division, which had two paper sessions at the conference.

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2019 Teaching Competition Winners Selected

The History Division awarded five winners for the inaugural Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History teaching-idea competition. The recipients were:

  • Nick Hirshon, William Paterson University
  • Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University
  • Kimberley Mangun, University of Utah
  • Shearon Roberts, Xavier University of Louisiana      
  • Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee

The competition featured original and tested transformative teaching ideas and practices that address pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and/or justice.

“Watch for five thoughtful and innovative presentations in Toronto,” Kristin Gustafson, the Division’s teaching standards chair, said of the 12- to 15-minute mini, hands-on teaching module that each winner will present at the 2019 AEJMC Conference in Toronto, Canada. Gustafson, University of Washington, will moderate the 9:15–10:45 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, panel.

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Member News Round-up

W. Joseph Campbell (American University) taped a class lecture on C-SPAN in late January for airing on its “Lectures in History” series. Campbell discussed the media myth of William Randolph Hearst’s purported vow to “furnish the war” with Spain at the end of the 19th century, noting how the tale lives on and is often repeated, despite a nearly complete absence of supporting documentation.


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Generation of Scholars: Samantha Peko Chats with Kenneth Campbell

A former journalist and copyeditor for several newspapers including, the Niagara Falls Gazette, Greensboro News & Record, Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer, the University of South Carolina’s Kenneth Campbell now applies his reporting skills to adding to journalism’s history. 

As an Associate Professor and Mass Communications Sequence Head, Campbell teaches mass communications theory, representation of women and minorities in the media and mass media history. He also taught journalism workshops in Zambia and Greece and participated in a faculty development experience in Cameroon.

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In A League of Their Own: AEJMC History Division Mini-profiles

Name: David W. Bulla

Where you work: Augusta University, as an associate professor and interim dept. chair in Communication.

Where you got/are getting your Ph.D.:  University of Florida, in mass communication (August 2004).

Current favorite class: COMM 4950 (Sports Communication).

Current research project: Working on two projects, one on Frederick Douglass and the other on Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Fun fact about yourself: I am a fan of northern European mystery fiction, especially Ann Cleeves, the late Colin Dexter, the late Henning Mankell and Ian Rankin. I have visited both Oxford (locale of Dexter’s Morse novels) and Edinburgh (where Rankin’s Rebus novels are set), and plan to visit both the Shetlands (Cleve’s Jimmy Perez novels) and southern Sweden one of these days to complete the cycle. I have actually been to Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where Cleves lives, and I have spent time at the Literacy and Philosophical Society Library where she gives readings, though I still have not seen her give a lecture or reading. I did meet Rankin at the Dubai Literary Festival a few years back. Yes, he says Rebus loves the Rolling Stones more than the Who. But Rebus’ brother was a big Who fan. A partial victory.


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Book Q&A with Randall Sumpter

The University of Missouri Press recently published Randall Sumpter’s new volume, Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules, in their new series, “Journalism in Perspective: Continuities and Disruptions.” Sumpter’s book uses a community of practice model to describe and to organize the many ways used by late nineteenth century reporters to master the basics of journalism. Sumpter, an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University, College Station, recently took a few minutes to share some insights about the focus and research process involved in Before Journalism Schools with history division membership co-chair Rachel Grant.

Q: Can you describe the focus of your book? 

A: Before the proliferation of journalism schools at public universities, novice reporters had to rely on other sources of information to master journalistic skills. Before Journalism Schools describes those resources and explains how knowledge brokers in the guise of experienced editors and reporters controlled the flow of information through these resource networks.

Q: How did you come across this subject? Why did it interest you?

A: As a young reporter working on my first metro daily, I soon realized that there was more to “doing” journalism than I had learned in college. There were additional rules and other masters of those rules. It soon became apparent to me that I would not survive my initial encounter with journalism without learning the rest of its rule book. My interest in this non-collegiate knowledge, those that controlled it, and how it moved through professional networks became a research interest after I earned my Ph.D.

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