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

Sat Jul 19 10:22:19 CDT 2008

With all the technological change, suggest ³news and ephemera division.²
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From: Susan Keith <susank at scils.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: <susank at scils.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:17:22 -0400
To: "News-List at Aejmc. Net" <news-list at aejmc.net>
Subject: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] FW: New name for Newspaper
Division?

From: Raleigh Mann [mailto:rmann1 at nc.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:45 AM
To: susank at scils.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] New name for Newspaper
Division?

Susan, if you would accept an opinion from a retired Newspaper Division
head, I certainly agree that a name change is long overdue, but, like you,
wouldn't want our name to appear to move us into the territory of the
technology folks. My suggestion would be to keep it simple but accurate and
sufficiently broad, perhaps something like the News Media Division.

Warm regards,
Raleigh Mann

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On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Susan Keith wrote:

>  
> Dear Newspaper Division colleagues,
> 
> I'm writing to ask you to  consider an issue that the division's executive
> committee will be  discussing next month in Chicago: whether   the  Newspaper
> Division of AEJMC should consider changing its name.
> 
> In  the July issue of our division newsletter, LeadTime, I argued that --  in
> keeping with AEJMC's focus this year on the future of our field --  our
> division should expand its name to clearly indicate that it embraces  the
> study of online and other types of journalism practiced by  newspaper
> companies. If you are away from the location where you receive  your mailed
> copy, you can download a PDF of the newsletter from
> http://aejmc.net/newspaper/leadtime/leadtime_july_2008.pdf  But I will
> briefly recap my reasons for suggesting a name change  here:
> 
> 1. "Newspaper" no longer accurately describes the full range of  products
> that traditional print journalism outlets are producing.
> 
> 2.  "Newspaper" no longer accurately describes the full range of  journalistic
> work that our division members study. At the Chicago  convention, we will
> hear research presentations on newspaper online  interactivity, copy editors'
> roles in the "digital revolution," online  citizen journalism and reporters'
> blogs.
> 
> 3. Giving the division a  name that accurately reflects the breadth of our
> interests might help us  stem a decline in membership. Although the Newspaper
> Division remains the  largest in AEJMC (by just 20 members), membership has
> fallen 13.3 percent  since 2004, from 684 to 593. It's impossible to say for
> sure what caused  the decline, but it's possible that some AEJMC members are
> not joining our  division or renewing membership in it because they think all
> we are  concerned with is what some view as a dying medium. (I don't share
> that  view, but it is out there.)
> 
> 4. Giving the division a name that  accurately reflects the breadth of our
> interests might help us stem a  decline over the past few years in paper
> submissions. Again, it's  impossible to say for sure why our submissions have
> been down, but it may  be that scholars studying such topics as online news
> sites, for example,  have perceived our division as being focused only on
> news printed on  paper.
> 
> 5. Expanding our division's name to something like "Newspaper  and Online
> Journalism Division" or "Newspaper and Newer Media Division" --  or some
> better name members suggest -- would let us offer a division home  to the
> scholars who study online and newer media journalism. Some of those  people
> are now affiliated with AEJMC's Communication Technology Division.  But for
> others, whose work is focused more on *journalism* than  *technology,* that
> division may not seem like the perfect fit.
> 
> 6.  Expanding our division's name might help us better weather any  internal
> reorganization that grows out of adopting the AEJMC Strategic  Plan, which
> members will be asked to vote on in Chicago. (You can read more  about it,
> from my perspective, here:
> http://aejmc.net/newspaper/leadtime/leadtime_march2008.pdf.)
> 
> A  few of you have already responded to my print column explaining why you  do
> or do not support a name change. I will be sharing your opinions with  the
> membership via this list (unless you asked me not to). I hope that this  note
> in your e-mail box will prompt more of you to respond and share  your
> opinions about whether changing the division's name is a good idea  and, if
> so, what the new name should be.
> 
> You can share your thoughts  by sending a note to the Newspaper Division
> e-mail list at  news-list at aejmc.net  I hope you'll share your opinions
> publically, but  if you'd rather send them just to me, you may do so  at
> susank at scils.rutgers.edu.
> 
> I look forward to hearing from  you!
> 
> Susan Keith, Ph.D.
> 2007-2008 AEJMC Newspaper Division  head
> Assistant professor
> Department of Journalism and Media  Studies
> School of Communication, Information and Library  Studies
> Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
> 4 Huntington  Street
> New Brunswick, NJ 08901
> (732) 932-7500, ext.  8235
> susank at scils.rutgers.edu
> www.scils.rutgers.edu/~susank
> Office:  CILS  106
> 
> 
> 
> 
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