Dec. 13 call issued for Spring SE Meeting
Site-building and event-planning are underway for the 2011 Southeast Colloquium for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication March 17-19 in Columbia, S.C.
The call for panel proposals and papers has been posted at event’s home page at the University of South Carolina (http://www.jour.sc.edu/sec2011/); the call for papers is also downloadable as a PDF file here.
The Newspaper Division “paper chair” for the event is Doug Fisher. Contact info for Doug and the other participating divisions is at the event site above.
Conference to mark launch legal service for digital news ventures
From the indispensable Nieman Journalism Lab:
A Harvard-based conference on online journalism and the law will also help inaugurate a new legal service ?called Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). The one-day symposium occurs on Friday April 9 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass..
The OMLN says it aims to connect “qualifying online journalism ventures and digital media creators with lawyers willing to provide legal services on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis.”
Sounds a bit like what state bar associations used to do for small community newspapers and struggling journalism grad students. My only slight concern comes from this sentence from the conference website: “[The OMLN] supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.” What will be deemed worthy of aid?
Academic Fellowships at Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Details: Applications Open for Inaugural Academic Fellowships
Deadline: Friday, March 26, 2010. Application guidelines
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is launching a new fellowship program for journalism educators June 17-18 at Columbia University in New York. Travel, lodging and curriculum-development funds are available.
The program is designed to provide college and university journalism faculty and advisers to student media advanced skills in teaching the art and craft of newsgathering, storytelling and self-care when reporting human tragedy.
Meg Spratt, director of Dart Center West at the University of Washington, notes that few student journalists are trained to recognize trauma and stress reactions in survivors, to make informed ethical choices about trauma news or to deal with their own emotional reactions while on the job.
The Dart Center has provided such training for working journalists; this new fellowship will make possible a three-day seminar for up to 12 college and university journalism educators.
The Dart Center will provide airfare and hotel in New York City for each fellow. In addition, up to $500 in post-seminar support will be provided each fellow to design and implement educational projects.
Contact information:
Meg Spratt, Ph.D
Director, Dart Center West
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
University of Washington
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195
206-616-3223
February proposal deadline for community news symposium
The National Newspaper Association 
and the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University have issued a call for proposals for the 16th annual Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium.
The symposium will be Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2010, in Omaha, at the community paper trade associaiton’s annual convention. The deadline to submit one-page proposals is Feb. 12, 2010. Suggested topic areas include newspapers encouraging community involvement, addressing a diverse audience, using new technology, and solving advertising, ethical and legal issues.
“The purpose of the symposium is to bring journalism educators and publishers together in a forum that encourages discussion about current research that is relevant to community newspapers. We seek research and case studies relevant to newspapers with less than 50,000 circulation,” according to the NNA announcement.
Each presenter whose proposal is selected will receive a $250 honorarium. Completed papers will be due July 7, 2010. For submission details and a PDF of the full call, see the NNA or Huck Boyd sites.
Calls for papers: Newspapers, new media & election ’08
How did newspapers, their online counterparts and other “legacy media” cover — and use — Facebook and other interactive tools in the 2088 presidential campaign?
That’s one of the questions posed in a call for papers issued by Tom Johnson of Texas Tech, editor of a special issue of Mass Communication and Society on social media and the 2008 election.
Texas Tech also plans a mid-April conference on New Media Theory, which may be of interest to Newspaper Division members, Johnson said. Both the conference and the journal special issue have submission deadlines in January.
Holiday giving: Review papers for Southeast Colloquium
Newspaper Division members are needed to review research papers submitted for the 2010 Southeast Colloquium, a great opportunity to provide feedback to researchers who may be making their first conference submissions.
Read more
SE Colloquium, Denver 2010, in LeadTime
Dec.4 is the deadline for SouthEast Colloquium panel proposals and research papers, with the Newspaper Division among the participants.
The event will be March 11-13 at the UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communication in Chapel Hill.
For details, download the colorful fall edition of the division’s LeadTime newsletter from the AEJMC Newspaper Division Homepage, or go straight to the SE Colloquium 2010 page at UNC.
The new LeadTime also covers the 2009 Boston convention and previews next year’s gathering in Denver.
If Only Hunter Could Be There
Event-design as Rorschach test… Am I the only one who mistook the jagged white Rocky Mountain profile ranging through next year’s AEJMC Convention logo for an optimistic graph of media industries’ ups and downs, showing a slight upturn on the right? On second thought, the line looks exciting, dangerous and cracked, which reminds me of someone…
Getting a crowd of journalism educators together in Hunter Thompson territory in August could be a lot of fun. I hope I can attend… (I hope anyone can attend, given the state of academic travel budgets, if my own institution is any indicator.)
Thinking of Hunter inspired a rewrite of this post and gave me a panel discussion idea for the event: “Going Gonzo: From Uncle Duke to Johnny Depp, how do journalism faculty and today’s students deal with Hunter S. Thompson‘s legacy?” He’s in my students’ textbook, on a page headed, Journalism heroes, legends and folklore. He’s relevant to bloggers and skeptics, rebels and iconoclasts, lefties — and libertarian lovers of recreational firearms.
So let’s make that a discussion question for any journalism educators who see this post: How DO you treat Hunter Thompson in your classes? Is he in the textbook you use? (In my case, it’s a “yes” for Tim Harrower’s Inside Reporting.) Is he discussed in writing classes? In magazine classes? Reporting classes? History classes? Ethics classes? Do students read him? What do they think?
