[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] name change

[Bob Stepno]

http://aejmc.net/news/?p=603

I did post an item on the division blog last week pointing  to Vin Crosbie's
column about research,  and added links to the division's earlier
interaction with INMA.

Incidentally INMA's magazine and research reports might be of interest to
academic researchers, but INMA's members - only policy and pricing are
prohibitive.

They even require registration to follow links from their blog to free
content elsewhere on the net.
I asked & was told academic memberships were discussed with AEJMC long ago
but price was never settled or something like that.

(Sorry; I'm writing from my phone and can't quote the exact message. )

Anyone interested in newspaper -industry-relations liaison for division,
write and I'll forward my earlier correspondence.

Meanwhile, any and all convention reports are welcome at the blog, since I
wasn't able to leave Virginia.

I did post some blog items from here and I was also able to help the Colo
students fix the story formatting for the convention news site. (Its stories
all week had no line or paragraph breaks.)

I added a blog link to the students' most newspaper -related story on my
compilation here:

http://aejmc.net/news/?p=628

Cheers,

Bob

On Aug 10, 2010 1:12 PM, "Carrie Brown" <carrielisabrown at gmail.com> wrote:

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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and, with public support, can successfully navigate the transition into
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