[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] name change

[Everbach, Tracy]

Thank you for saying that, Carrie Brown. All this talk about the name avoids the real discussion.

We don't want to be seen as dinosaurs, unwilling to change.


Tracy Everbach, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
214-995-8464-cell
Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #311460
Denton, TX  76203-5017
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From: news-list-bounces at aejmc.net [news-list-bounces at aejmc.net] On Behalf Of Carrie Brown [carrielisabrown at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:26 PM
To: news-list at aejmc.net
Subject: Re: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] name change

Just a quick two cents. I personally don't care passionately about the name - as I believe Phil Meyer said, it's not so much about what the individual division is named but about the overall organization of AEJMC. But the passionate defenses of newsprint on this listserv do, with all due respect, convince younger faculty members such as myself and folks in the industry of our increasing lack of relevance (e.g. http://www.digitaldeliverance.com/2010/07/31/aejmc/). Regardless of the high esteem we may place on newspapers, my research partner and I have collectively spent months actually visiting them and conducting well over 100 interviews in the past two years, and what they are desperately in need of from the academic community is forward-thinking research on how they can change, build a business model, and enhance the core values of journalism using the many tools the Web makes available to us.  I'd like to see the same level of passion and interest in THAT kind of discussion as I so frequently hear from this division about how sad or scary change is and how we must continue to venerate newsprint.

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