As one of your membership benefits of AEJMC, you can access the online content of Electronic News on SAGE Journals Online.
Instructions for setting up your online account access to Electronic News are at http://aejmc.net/rtvj/journal/
2013 Southeast Colloquium Call for Papers and Panels
Authors and scholars are invited to submit research papers and panel proposals for the annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, which will be held Feb. 28 – March 2, 2013, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
Research papers: Authors should submit each paper as an email attachment (documents may be submitted in the following formats: Word, Pages, PDF) directly to the paper chairs listed below for each division no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Time, December 10.
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Call for Panel Proposals for AEJMC 2013
AEJMC Electronic News Division Members are invited to submit a proposal for a panel for the 2013 AEJMC national conference, to be held in Washington, D.C., August 8-11.
The Electronic News Division is seeking panel ideas on a wide variety of topics related to electronic news, including radio, television and online journalism. We are especially interested in proposals that can be jointly sponsored with another AEJMC division, interest group or commission.
This year we are especially interested in panel ideas regarding diversity and/or electronic media policy, although all ideas are welcome.
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Hofstra University Professor and Department Chair Bob Papper wins 2012 Bliss Award
By Gary Hanson, Kent State University
Electronic News Division Head
Prof. Bob Papper, Hofstra University. Photo from http://www.iabc-li.com.
Professor Robert Papper of Hofstra University has been named the recipient of the 2012 Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education.
The award is presented annually by the Electronic News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to recognize significant and lasting contributions to the field in the area of teaching, scholarship and service.
Professor Papper is currently the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. Prior to that, he served as Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He has held faculty positions at Ohio Wesleyan University and American University. His industry experience includes newsroom management and producing positions at WSYX in Columbus, Ohio, WRC in Washington and WCCO in Minneapolis.
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What About Voice?
By Dave Cupp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
These are times of great change for those of us who have traditionally taught students how to create news stories for radio and television. We are now trying to prepare students as well for challenges posed by new platforms, which could fall under umbrellas labeled ‘electronic’ ‘online’ ‘emerging’ and/or ‘digital’. Indeed, we’re engaged in an RTVJ renaming discussion right now, trying to decide what we should call ourselves to better reflect our new reality.
As we retool our classes to include new skills, I hope we can also upgrade instruction in an area that I fear is too often neglected – voice. Whether our students are working on-air or online, if they are sharing their stories by speaking we should be helping them to speak more effectively.
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Pubmedia looks to community engagement strategies to build relationships, audiences
By Michael Huntsberber, Linfield College
At the recent Community Radio Conference in San Francisco, practitioners of public media had the opportunity to learn about the initiatives of the National Center for Media Engagement, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping public media outlets “engage and educate citizens, build sustainable community relationships and stimulate civic participation.”
Through a series of presentations, including an inspiring keynote address by social engagement and innovation expert Richard Harwood, conference participants learned how local electronic media outlets are putting their personnel, production, and distribution capacities to work to serve the needs of their communities.
Harwood’s keynote reminded electronic journalists to “make good on the urge to do good” by connecting across differences in the communities and audiences served by electronic media outlets. The conference was sponsored by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
Tuggle wins Bliss Award
By Nancy McKenzie Dupont, Mississippi
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Dr. Charlie Tuggle, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will recieve the 2011 Bliss Award from the AEJMC Radio-TV Journalism division.
Dr. C.A. “Charlie” Tuggle of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected the 2011 recipient of the Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education. This award recognizes an electronic journalism educator who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field in the areas of teaching, service and scholarship. It is given annually by the Radio-Television Journalism division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Dr. Tuggle is professor and director of the journalism program at UNC-Chapel Hill. He spent 16 years and a reporter and producer in local television newsrooms in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. He became a broadcast journalism educator in 1992 as a guest lecturer and seminar leader at the University of Florida and has since taught at the University of Montevallo and Florida International University in addition to UNC-Chapel Hill. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama.
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Tweeting May Be Reporting, But It’s Not Citizen Journalism…Or Journalism
By Tim Bajkiewicz, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
It’s fitting that I first saw the article on my Facebook feed, “How 4 people & their social network turned an unwitting witness to bin Laden’s death into a citizen journalist” by Poynter Online’s Steve Myers.
It’s about Sohaib Athar, the IT consultant in Pakistan who tweeted about seeing the choppers during the May 1 raid: “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).” Myers discusses Twitter-verse networks more than anything else, but this caught my eye:
“Each of them contributed to a chain of information that turned one man’s offhand comments about a helicopter in the middle of the night into an internationally known work of citizen journalism.”
Citizen journalism? When did a 140 (or in this case 62) character comment become citizen journalism, or any kind of journalism?
Research Paper Call for 2011 AEJMC Conference
RTVJ invites you to submit original research on any aspect of broadcast journalism or electronic communication with a journalism emphasis. The division welcomes a variety of subjects and methodological approaches.
There is no special call for papers on a specific topic this year, but we encourage undecided researchers to consider exploring the ways in which broadcast news operations are now utilizing social media to connect with their viewers.
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New Year, New Lease on Both Life and News
By Tim Bajkiewicz, Virginia Commonwealth University
Doral Chenoweth III, a photographer with The Columbus Dispatch, made Ted Williams an overnight Internet sensation when his video of the homeless man with the great voice went viral. (See the newspaper’s special report page.)
The pertinent details shouldn’t be lost on media professionals: Chenoweth is a newspaper photographer who produced a short video with a Flip cam and posted it to his paper’s website and YouTube. What was once the sole domain of TV news–shooting, editing, and distributing video–is now very democratized and being used by TV’s traditional competitors.
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