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Membership Committee Creates Priorities for Year

By Membership Co-Chairs Maddie Liseblad, Middle Tennessee State University, madeleine.liseblad@mtsu.edu, Rachel Grant, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu, and Perry Parks, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu

From left to right: Maddie Liseblad, Rachel Grant and Perry Parks.

As your 2019-2020 committee, we’d like to share our primary goals for this year. First and foremost, our overall goal is to grow our membership. We will continue our outreach work as opportunities arise. For example, when nonmembers present media history research at conferences, we reach out and invite them to join our division.

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Call for Editor – Journalism History

The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication invites applications for editor of Journalism History. 

Adopted as the official journal of the History Division in 2018, Journalism History is well respected as the oldest peer-reviewed journal of mass media history in the United States. Continuously published since 1974, this scholarly journal is a quarterly publication that features excellent scholarship on media history.  

The division seeks an editor to start in August 2020 as an apprentice to the current editor until the new editor’s three-and-a-half-year term commences in August 2021. The term is renewable.

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AEJMC History Division Announces Award Honoring Jinx Broussard

Dr. Jinx Broussard is a professor at Louisiana State University.

The AEJMC History Division is pleased to announce the creation of the Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History.

The History Division officers unanimously voted to name the award after Broussard with the support of the full leadership team.

“I am unbelievably honored to have my name associated with this award,” Broussard said. “I hope to continue inspiring students, teachers and scholars of media history to uncover the past and make sense of the role media have played and the impact they continue to make in our world.” 

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It’s a Podcast Celebration!

Podcast cake
The Journalism History podcast team: Will Mari, Nick Hirshon, Teri Finneman and Erika Pribanic-Smith.

The Journalism History podcast celebrated its first birthday earlier this month and recognized it with a cake at AJHA. The podcast has been downloaded in 47 states and 49 countries and has officially reached 4,000 downloads.

You’re invited! The 27th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

The steering committee of the 27th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression invites all CLIO readers to attend this year’s conference in Chattanooga, November 7-9.  The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga communication department, the Walter and Leona Schmitt Family Foundation Research Fund, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium, and because of this sponsorship, no registration fee will be charged. If you are interested in attending, please contact David Sachsman at david-sachsman@utc.edu. Additional information is available at www.utc.edu/west-chair-communication/symposium/index.php . 

Establishing New Traditions for Promoting Excellence in Teaching

By Teaching Standards Co-Chairs Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, aroessne@utk.edu, and Kristin L. Gustafson, University of Washington Bothell, gustaf13@u.washington.edu

  • Amber Roessner
  • Kristin L. Gustafson

As AEJMC’s History Division teaching standard co-chairs, we would like to share our two primary goals for the year ahead. First, we want to highlight the best practices in history pedagogy with a special focus on pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community and justice. And second, we hope to advocate nationally and internationally for the importance of historically informed students across journalism and mass communication curricula. To that end, we will focus on orchestrating the second-annual Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History contest and on implementing a new salon venture focused on spreading the word about the importance of historically informed students across journalism and mass communication curricula. 

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Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History: Call for Entries

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST February 1, 2020

Do you have an innovative idea or best practice for transformative teaching? We are seeking entries for the Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History, a teaching-idea competition sponsored by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The competition, founded in 2019, will acknowledge and share best practices publicly that we as journalism educators and media historians use in classrooms. Winning entries receive a $75 prize.

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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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