Rachel Grant (University of Florida) won the top paper in the International Communication Association’s Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division, with co-authors Raegan Burden and Spenser Cheek. Their paper, “I Am Speaking:” 2020 VP Nominee Kamala Harris’s Impact of Black Feminism as Social Influencers on Twitter,” will be presented at ICA’s conference in May. ica21-printprogram.pdf (ymaws.com)

Cayce Myers’ (Virgina Tech University) essay, “The Legal Legacy of 9/11,” was published online in February with Journalism History, as part of its series of essays on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Cayce is vice chair of the AEJMC History Division. Myers Essay: The Legal Legacy of 9/11 – Journalism History journal (journalism-history.org)

Elisabeth Fondren (St. John’s University) appeared as a guest on the Journalism History Podcast, in the episode, “The Great War Through the Lens,” with host Teri Finneman. Fondren talked about the work of World War 1-era photographer Percy Brown.  Fondren Podcast: The Great War Through the Lens – Journalism History journal (journalism-history.org)

Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) and Will Mari’s (Louisiana State University) pandemic oral-history project was featured on Poynter.org, as written up and presented by Kristen Hare, “The Essential Workers.” Oral history: How journalists in mid-America became essential workers during the pandemic – Poynter

Owen V. Johnson’s (Indiana University) essay “The Press of Change: Mass Communications in Late Communist and Post-Communist Societies,” originally published in 1992 in Adaptation and Transformation in Communist and Post-Communist Systems, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), has recently been republished in a Routledge edition of the book. His study was funded by a research grant from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research.

Joe Saltzman (University of Southern California) chaired a panel on the Image of the Public Relations Practitioner in Popular Culture at the AEJMC Public Relations Division virtual conference on Friday, February 26. He produced a special video showing excerpts from films and TV shows from 1901 to 2019. He also recently delivered three lectures to 40 Chinese students in China on the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture.