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.
Panel proposals for 2013 convention due by Oct. 21
The AEJMC Newspaper and Online News Division is accepting panel proposals for the 2013 convention in Washington, D.C., Aug. 8 to 11.
The deadline for panel proposals is Oct. 21. Panel proposals must include:
1. A working title and panel description.
2. A statement of whether the panel would be a Teaching, Research or Professional Freedom and Responsibility panel. PF&R panels focus on free expression, ethics, media criticism and accountability, racial/gender/cultural inclusiveness or public service.
3. Suggestions for divisions or interest groups that might be interested in co-sponsoring the panel. Panels that include co-sponsoring divisions/interest groups have a better chance of being accepted, because they are likely to be of wider interest at the convention and allow the division a chance to take part in more sessions. In fact, many of the Newspaper and Online News Division’s 2012 convention panels involved co-sponsors.
You should submit your proposal to only one division, and we invite you to submit it to the Newspaper and Online News Division.
For ideas on co-sponsoring opportunities, here’s a list of divisions and interest groups.
4. A statement of why the topic is important.
5. A brief description of issues the panelists could discuss.
If your panel is chosen for presentation with a co-sponsoring division or interest group, you will work with a representative from the co-sponsor to make sure that the interests of both divisions/interest groups are represented on the panel.
6. Names or descriptions of possible panelists. If you have specific people in mind, please identify them. Firm commitments are not needed, but it helps to know if those people would be willing to serve. If you don’t have names, say what type of panelist you are aiming for – a scholar with a particular expertise or someone from a particular media company. AEJMC tracks diversity among panelists, moderators and discussants, so please keep that in mind when planning Limited funds for travel reimbursement are available for panel participants who are not AEJMC members. The deadline for those requests is late January. Whenever possible, please try to find local panelists or AEJMC members whom you expect will be attending the convention anyhow.
7. Your name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address. Applicants must be AEJMC members.
Please send proposals as attachments to: Claire Serant- Vice Programming Chair (AEJMC – Newspaper and Online News Division)
Email: cserant@york.cuny.edu Office: 718-262-5198
Mailing address: York College/CUNY
English Department & Journalism Program Room 2A16
94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd.
Jamaica, New York 11451
Start thinking about panel ideas you can submit. To help you think along creative lines, ideas include:
• The future of investigative journalism
• Economic challenges facing newspapers
• Changes in journalism education/pedagogy
• Changing political coverage after the 2012 election
• Ethical issues
• Evolving income models for Web content
• Public perceptions of journalists within a highly fractured news culture
• Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and news
• The threat from Google or other similar services
• Implications of staffing cuts, furloughs
• Diversity and fairness issues
The Newspaper Division sponsored or co-sponsored multiple panels at the 2012 convention in Chicago. To see ideas from previous years, look at Leadtime editions from 2012, 2011, and 2010.
Sincerely,
Claire Serant
Call for entries: The division’s newspaper project award
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
2012 AEJMC NEWSPAPER AND ONLINE NEWS DIVISION NEWSPAPER PROJECT AWARD
May 1 deadline
The AEJMC Newspaper and Online News Division’s Newspaper Project Award recognizes publications produced by students and professors in journalism classes or as special curricular projects connected to courses. To qualify, the publication must have been edited and produced as part of the curriculum, text reported and written by students, and professors must have been responsible for editing and/or advising. Magazines, newsletters or Yellow Page-like compilations will not be accepted. Eligible publications must have been published in either the 2010-2011 or 2011-2012 academic years. Online newspaper publications are eligible and may be submitted on a DVD or CD. The following form should be filled out and accompany the entry: Read more
Call for papers: ACES award for for research on editing
Newspaper and Online News: ACES Award for Research on Editing
The Newspaper Division of AEJMC invites faculty and students to submit research papers in the inaugural competition for the ACES Award For Research On Editing. Deadline: April 1, 2012.
Sponsored by the American Copy Editors Society, the award will honor the best research about story editing, headline writing and other topics related to editing. The winner will present the research at the AEJMC conference in Chicago, August 9-12, 2012. The winner will also receive a $100 prize and complementary registration to the ACES conference for the following year.
Qualitative and quantitative papers in history, law, effects, processes, use, ethics and emerging technologies are welcome. Read more
Call for Chicago panel proposals – deadline Oct. 15
The AEJMC Newspaper and Online News Division (our new name, as of Oct. 1) is accepting panel proposals for the 2012 convention in Chicago, Aug. 9-12. Read more
Leadtime Looks to St. Louis & Online
The Newspaper Division’s 
Winter 11 Leadtime newsletter is here — possibly the last to carry the division’s original name.
As division head John Carvalho notes in the newsletter, 73 percent of voting members recently supported changing the division name to “Newspaper & Online News” — “both recognizing our division’s heritage and incorporating the changes that it has experienced.”
In other news, Leadtime has last-minute tips on meeting the April 1 deadline for conference papers, and details on the division’s program at the August event in St. Louis.
As Carvalho notes, the name-change decision goes to the folks at AEJMC headquarters and president Jan Slater, for the next step… which presumably at some point will include the official change on newsletter, blog and homepage nameplates.
(Your Web editor hopes we will keep this “http://aejmc.net/news” and the archival “http://aejmc.net/newspaper” address and not be ordered to shift to “/non” or “/naon,” lest someone think we are involved with non-news or the misspelled noon-news. )
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.
