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

[Michael Abrams]

Just a humble suggestion, but "Newsology" captures the idea as "news" is the
central theme, and the field of study. "Newsology Research Journal" would
take a little getting used to, but would make sense in the long run, as have
Psych ology,  Sociol ogy, and so forth. Also change the name of Journalism
Division to Journalistic Division, as that would encompass the informality
of the Web, where only some people would call it journalism and some others
wouldn't.  
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> From: Barry Hollander <barry at uga.edu>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:25:06 -0400
> To: <news-list at aejmc.net>
> Subject: Re: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] New name for Newspaper Division?
> 
> 
> Newspaper Division is a well-loved but outdated name.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
> 
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