Highlights of ICA Journalism Studies Division Business Meeting 2014 in Seattle
Agenda highlights included discussions on upcoming elections, ways to engage members, presentation of awards, introduction of new membership categories, proposed changes to board representation, establishment of guidelines for affiliate journals, and the creation of new divisions and interest groups. The event also featured a preview of the next communication conference in San Juan and insights into the Journalism Studies budget. Matt Carlson was announced as the new division chair, and Henrik Ornebring as the new vice chair, leading discussions on fall elections, bylaws changes, graduate student representation, and internationalization efforts. The conference paper competition received 256 papers and 18 panel proposals, with an acceptance rate of 40.3% for papers and 33.3% for panels.
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Journalism Studies Division Business Meeting ICA 2014 Seattle
Agenda Highlights of ICA board meeting Journalism Studies Division news Upcoming election and ways to get involved Presentation of awards
ICA board meeting highlights New membership category employment exception now in effect Proposed changes to board representation Replace 5 regional at-large board members with 3 members to be elected by membership Guidelines for affiliate journals established New division and interest group Environmental Communication Division Sports Communication Interest Group Survey Divisional graduate student representative and internationalization liaison
Next up: San Juan Communication Across the Life Span $149/night including wifi 2 Hilton hotels with shuttle
Journalism Studies budget Journalism Studies 2014 budget: $3,624 Outstanding Article Award, $500 Travel support for top 3 student papers, $1,050 Tier C travel support, $750 Journalism Studies reception Matt Carlson is our budget hero Raised additional reception funding from Sage and Taylor & Francis Scored us a great deal at Rock Bottom Brewery
And nowyour new division chair, Matt Carlson. Welcome also your new vice chair, Henrik Ornebring.
Discussion items Fall elections Secretary (2-year commitment) Bylaws changes Graduate student representative Internationalization liaison Take the survey! Our acceptance rate
Conference paper competition JSD received 256 papers, 18 panel proposals Acceptance rate: 40.3% for papers Student: 29.7% (91) Non-student: 46.1% (165) 33.3% for panels
Gene BurdOutstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award Matthew Powers Humanity s Publics: NGO s, Journalism and the International Public Sphere
Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Lilie Chouliaraki Remediation, Intermediation, Transmediation: The cosmopolitan trajectories of convergent journalism --Journalism Studies 14:2
Top 3 Student Paper Award Winners Tanja Aitamurto, U of California, Berkeley "Open Investigative Journalism and the Reciprocal Panopticon: Citizens As Watchdogs" David Conrad, U of Pennsylvania "The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals about Contemporary Foreign News Production" Rodrigo Zamith, U of Minnesota "What is the 'Elite Press'? A Network Analysis of High- Circulation Newspapers in the U.S."
Top 3 Faculty Paper Award Winners Andrea Umbricht and Frank Esser, U of Zurich "The Push to Popularize Politics: Comparing Public Affairs Coverage in Six News Systems since the 1960s" Michael Opgenhaffen and Harald Scheerlink, U of Leuven "Social media guidelines for journalists. An investigation into the Sense and Nonsense among Flemish Journalists" Katharina Emde, Daniela Schluetz and Christoph Klimmt, Hanover U of Music, Drama and Media "Does Storytelling Help Adolescents to Process the News? Comparing Narrative News and Inverted Pyramid"
Late-breaking Top Poster Award Tine Ustad Figenschou and Audun Beyer The Limits of the Debate: How the Oslo Terror Shook the Norwegian Immigration Debate
Adjourn to reception 1. Turn left out of the hotel lobby. 2. Walk to corner. 3. Turn right to walk down Union. 4. Turn left on Fifth Ave. 5. Address is 1333 Fifth Ave (btw Union and University).
