The competition awards prizes of $100 to the best idea for teaching writing, reporting or editing in each of three entrant categories: full-time professor, adjunct professor, and graduate student instructor.

For details on entering, see http://rci.rutgers.edu/~susank/NWSP/TNT21.html

For inspiration from past winners, see the TNT-21 tab above, or click here.

The designated Twitter hashtag is #AEJMC2013,

An issue of Leadtime will be posted here this summer with division-specific convention news.

Do you have an innovative idea for improving the teaching of newswriting, reporting or editing in the digital era? If so, enter it in Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century, the teaching-ideas competition sponsored by the Newspaper and Online News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

TNT21 was founded in 2009 to publicly acknowledge good ideas for teaching three types of foundational journalism courses – newswriting, reporting and editing – by three types of instructors:

• Full-time faculty members
• Adjunct professors
• Graduate-student instructors

A prize of $100 will be awarded for the best teaching idea from each group of instructors. This year, the deadline is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time June 13, 2013. This gives you time to enter the ideas you used in classes in fall 2012 and spring 2013.

To enter:

• Download the entry form at http://tinyurl.com/crhscd2
• Complete the form.
• Return the form as an attachment, along with any supporting materials to 21stcenturyteachingtips@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 13, 2012.

Teaching ideas should be tailored for use in teaching newswriting, reporting or editing courses in a world where technologies for creating and delivering journalism are rapidly changing. For example, the competition would welcome tips for teaching newswriting across media, using social media in editing courses or exploring the ethical implications of reporting under-verified information online. Teaching ideas may be tailored for specific versions of newswriting, reporting or editing courses, such as sports reporting, business reporting or environmental reporting. All ideas, however, should help professors address the challenges of the 21^st century classroom.

Ideas will be judged for their originality, innovative nature, ease of application, completeness and writing. In addition, judges will take into account whether the ideas would work in more than one course and/or at different types of schools. All ideas submitted should be:

• Original. Please do not submit work that has been published or presented elsewhere or that is borrowed from another instructor’s work. Please do not submit work that has been a winner or a finalist in another AEJMC or journalism and mass communication teaching ideas competition.
• Classroom-tested. Please do not submit ideas that you have not yet used.

Winners will be announced on the Newspaper and Online News Division Twitter feed, @AEJMC_NOND; website, http://aejmc.net/news; and e-mail listserv during the AEJMC convention in Washington, D.C. Entrants do not have to attend the convention to win. Winning entries and runners-up will be published in a PDF booklet available online.

To view the 2012 winners, see http://aejmc.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TNT21bookletRevised.pdf

If you have questions about the competition, please e-mail Susan Keith of Rutgers University at susank@rutgers.edu.

For other information about the conference, including the call for proposals, see:
http://journalisminteractive.com/2013/submit-a-research-paper/

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

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.

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

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press interim executive director Gregg Leslie sent along this note of thanks.

And thanks to Newspaper and Online News Division members for their membership dues, which we use to support such worthwhile causes as RCFP and the Student Press Law Center, which also received a $500 donation from the Division.

–Chris Roberts
Head, Newspaper and Online News Division

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

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.

Tim Currie, an assistant professor of online journalism at University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, received a $100 prize and complementary registration to the ACES national conference in St. Louis in 2013. His winning paper is titled “Social Media Editors in The News: A Survey of Roles and Functions.”

The award, co-sponsored by the Newspaper & Online News Division and the American Copy Editors Society, honors research about story editing, headline writing and other topics related to editing.

“It’s a real honor to receive this award,” Currie said. “It’s important that ACES acknowledges and supports research into new practices.”

Currie’s survey of social media editors at Canadian news organizations found that these journalists must balance the demands of their newsrooms and the expectations of their readers, who expect online interaction. The study found that social media editors are increasingly visible and influential in newsrooms, though some still feel they are treated as “Twitter monkeys.”

“This greater audience role challenges the traditional gatekeeping function of news editors, as website traffic data and reader comments influence the types of stories journalists cover and the manner in which they cover them,” Currie concludes. “Canadian social media editors envision a new partnership with the audience but, at present, struggle to identify how that partnership will work.”

Among Currie’s other findings:

• Facebook and Twitter are the leading platforms used by social media editors, with LinkedIn and Instagram less popular.

• Besides Tweeting and posting to Facebook, these editors are involved in training colleagues, leading online chats with readers and reaching out to bloggers in their communities.

• Social media editors “likened their role that of an emissary or missionary bringing new ideas to the newsroom.”

• Social media editors have “a high level of journalistic ability and skill dealing with people.”

The research award is part of an effort by ACES to connect academic research to the daily work of editors. A call for papers for next year’s award will go out this fall.

“ACES places a high value on research,” said Teresa Schmedding, president of ACES. “We can’t afford to keep doing things because that’s the way we’ve always done them. Research is the key to helping practicing journalists figure out where to direct resources.”

To read the full study, download Currie’s paper as a PDF file from his website.