[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] New name for Newspaper Division?

[Barry Hollander]

Newspaper Division is a well-loved but outdated name.
Even newspapers today strive to recast themselves
as something more than the name implies.  Sticking
"online" with "newspaper" strikes me not only as
sounding 1990s-ish, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Focus instead on the act and call it the Journalism Division.
The digital versions of newspapers today are doing the
best multimedia work out there, but it remains journalism 
regardless of medium: print, online, or as my friend
Prof. Eberhard well remembers, chiseling words onto 
stone tablets.

Journalism Research Journal, though, is a terrible title,
so maybe my idea isn't all that great.

If the division is anything like a university, we'll form a
committee, study this for 10 years, and then write a report.


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Barry Hollander
Grady College of Journalism
   and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
barry at uga.edu
www.barryhollander.com
http://whatpeopleknow.blogspot.com