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

[Clyde Bentley]

Is it possible to address our identity concerns in the subtext that usually
follows a name on a Web page or stationary?  We are in the land of colonated
titles, after all:

Newspaper Division 
Addressing the full range of issues, technologies and media employed by 21st
Century newspapers

Clyde



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Clyde Bentley
Missouri School of Journalism
 

Wilson Lowrey7/17/08 3:52 PM

> Thanks so much, Susan for raising this issue. I¹ve really enjoyed
> reading these thoughtful posts. At this point I¹m open to a couple of
> possibilities: 
> 
> (1) Keeping the present name but supplementing it with outreach efforts
> to help AEJMC members and students better understand the division¹s
> inclusiveness. Bill Reader suggested something similar in an earlier
> post. And I agree with him that we shouldn¹t so quickly dismiss the
> valuable cultural capital and public legitimacy of newspapers.
> (2) Changing the name to something simple and rooted in the division¹s
> conceptual focus ­ the News Division or the Journalism Division, or some
> such. However, if the Division were to pursue this approach, I think
> we'd need to discuss the plans with RTVJ, Community J and Civic J, etc.
> Probably any name change will lead to bruised toes, but if it¹s done in
> an open manner ­ if we at least invite others to speak their mind, even
> at our meeting -- maybe we could minimize the fallout. And it would only
> be fair.
> 
> I don¹t think it¹s a good idea to incorporate some other technological
> platform into the name ­ Newspapers and Online News, for example. We¹d
> still be tying ourselves to the caprice of changing technologies and
> changing labels for these technologies (and to the latest industry
> interpretation of what the problem is). And we¹ll soon be having this
> conversation all over again. I remember working on a Sunday Perspective
> section front in the early Œ90s (seems like yesterday) that focused on
> the then new phenomenon of the Internet. Thinking ourselves Œwith it,¹
> we went with an arthed like ³Surfing the Internet² ­ at that time, a
> cutting-edge term. I don¹t remember the last time I heard someone
> actually say, ³well, I think I¹ll go surf the Internet.²
> 


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