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.
April 7 deadline for Newspaper Project Award submissions
2010 AEJMC NEWSPAPER DIVISION NEWSPAPER PROJECT AWARD
The AEJMC Newspaper 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 2008-2009 or 2009-2010 academic years. Online newspaper publications are eligible and may be submitted on a DVD or CD. Read more
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
