Journalism Interactive 2013 conference calls for proposals
Journalism Interactive 2013 conference organizers from the University of Maryland and the University of Florida are looking for proposals for panel sessions and research posters by Dec. 15. The event will be Feb. 8-9 in Gainesville, Fla.
For other information about the conference, including the call for proposals, see:
http://journalisminteractive.
In a note to the Newspaper & Online News Division, conference planners said they are looking for “really interesting studies of digital media and digital journalism education,” including topics like:
- Journalism technology education and training
- Research on news organizations’ use of mobile technology
- Citizen or participatory journalism, user-generated content or crowdsourcing
- Journalism and big data/data visualization
- The impact of new technologies on newsroom routines
- Responsive design and/or agile development in journalism
- Journalists’ use of social media
Contacts for the event are UF’s Dr. Kim Walsh-Childers or UMD’s Dr. Kalyani Chadha
Southeast Colloquium:
Deadlines in December, Florida in February
The Southeast Colloquium will be Feb. 28-March 2 at the University of South Florida in Tampa, with the Newspaper & Online News Division among a half-dozen participating groups.
Faculty and student research papers should be sent to Guy Reel (reelg@winthrop.edu) for our division or to the the paper chairs listed below for other divisions; the deadline is 5 p.m. EST Dec. 10. Panel proposals should go to Justin S. Brown at justinsbrown@usf.edu by Dec. 10, 2012, and should include proposed panelists and a brief description (no more than three double-spaced pages).
The Colloquium will meet at the Embassy Suites USF/Busch Gardens, located on the USF campus. The event will be hosted by the USF School of Mass Communications.
- Call for Papers: http://masscom.usf.edu/colloquium13/papers/
- Registration: http://masscom.usf.edu/colloquium13/register/
The deadline for paper submissions is 5 p.m. EST December 10, 2012.
- Newspaper and Online News Division, Guy Reel, reelg@winthrop.edu
- Law and Policy Division, Courtney Barclay, aejsoutheast.law@gmail.com
- History Division, Harlen Makemson, hmakemson@elon.edu
- Magazine Division, Erin Coyle, ekcoyle@lsu.edu
- Electronic News Division, David Free, dfree@austin.rr.com
- Open Division, Dana Rosengard, drosengard@suffolk.edu
Colloquium registration is $95 if the registration form is received by Feb. 20. Hotel reservations at the special colloquium price must be made no later than Feb. 7.
Students and faculty should indicate their status for consideration for faculty and student top paper awards. See the Call for Papers for details.
SE Colloquium seeks research competition coordinator
The hosts of the AEJMC’s Southeastern Colloquium 2013, set for Feb. 28-March 2 in Tampa, Fla., seek a volunteer to coordinate the Newspaper and Online News Division’s academic paper competition. Attendance at the event would be required.
The job entails recruiting reviewers to judge the papers that will arrive by the Dec. 10 deadline, using the judge’s comments to decide which papers to accept and reject, notifying people who submitted papers of the final status, creating the panel(s), and recruiting moderator(s) and discussant(s).
It is an excellent opportunity to follow the latest research, learn how the research process works in preparation for volunteering to join the Division’s leadership, and provide service to the academic community.
To volunteer, contact Newspaper and Online News Division head
Chris Roberts.
–Chris Roberts
Head, Newspaper and Online News Division
Southeastern Colloquium: February 28 – March 2 in Tampa, Florida
The University of South Florida in Tampa is hosting the AEJMC Southeastern Colloquium 2013 on February 28-March 2. (What better time to be in Florida?)
The Newspaper and Online News Division is a co-sponsor, and we’ll of course have an academic paper competition. Details and deadlines will come soon.
The Embassy Suites USF/Busch Gardens is the site, at $139 for double/king suites (before taxes.) Yes, the hotel’s famed breakfast and the evening manager’s cocktail reception are part of the deal
Edward Jay Friedlander is director of the host committee, and program director Justin Brown will be working with research chairs.
Newspaper pros, students Tweet conference events
There’s a whole lot of tweeting going on this week from the Newspaper Association of America and American Society of News Editors event in Washington, President Obama speech included… and some excellent use of their conference “hashtags” on Twitter, with links to stories by student journalists and others.
Even if you don’t have a Twitter account (but you should!), you can follow the links from the event-specific tags NAAmXc, ASNE12:
- https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23NAAmXc
- https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23asne12
- https://twitter.com/#!/NAAupdates
- NAAmediaXchange
- Note that organization-name hashtags are risky… producing links to everything from aviation to the National Autism Association https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23NAA
- Other confusion “@asne” is not the American organization; it’s someone in Osaka who hasn’t used the address, but got there first. The American Society of News Editors website is asne.org (not .com; that’s someone else again) and its Twitter handle is @NewsEditors: https://twitter.com/#!/NewsEditors
Samples of what’s going on, in no particular order — also interesting folks to follow if you do have a Twitter account. (Mine is https://twitter.com/#!/bobstep) Admittedly, this is not journalism; it’s cutting-and-pasting links so that I can find them later myself… 
Steve Buttry ? 
Arianna Huffington ? @ariannahuff: Early morning in DC, on my way to #ASNE12 to talk about newsroom innovation w/ @JillAbramson, @Cafreeland, Donna Byrd, and Kathleen Caroll
Michael Stowe ?: NYT’s Jill Abramson: Our passion for high quality journalism has not changed. Times even opening new news bureaus. 
Knight Foundation ? 
David Boardman ? 
Carole Tarrant ? 
Doris N. Truong ? 
Jeff Selingo ? 
NAA ? 
Ebyline ? 
Perfect Market ? 
Shana Hoch ? 
Vikki Porter ? 
Poynter ? 
Owen Youngman ? 
Jeff Sonderman ? ? December “giving”: Review papers for AEJMC Southeast Colloquium
Peer reviewers are needed to read papers for AEJMC’s Southeast Colloquium beginning in early December, with a review deadline in mid-January.
The deadline for paper submissions is Dec. 13, so it is anticipated papers would be mailed for review by Dec. 15. (Submissions are in physical, not electronic, form.)
Reviews would need to be completed by Jan. 15 so that authors can be notified by the end of January. The colloquium is March 17-19 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.
We would like to have enough reviewers so that no one person is handling more than three papers, and preferably fewer.
Please volunteer by letting Doug Fisher know at dfisher@sc.edu. Please include your preferred mailing address and any areas you feel especially qualified to review in.
Call for 2011 panel proposals: Deadline Oct. 15
The AEJMC Newspaper Division is accepting panel proposals for the 2011 convention in St. Louis, Aug. 10-13.
The deadline for panel proposals is Oct. 15. Panel proposals must include:
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
