Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference

03/26/2025

Here's the final schedule for the Joint Journalism Communications History Conference. Thanks to all of the peer reviewers and volunteers who made this conference happen!

01/21/2025

We are extending the submission deadline for this year's conference to Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Working on a new project? Submit a research in progress proposal - 500 words. Papers and panels also are welcome.

The JJCHC will be held at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism - University of Maryland on Friday March 28.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anya Schiffrin, director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a senior lecturer on global media, innovation and human rights.

Tour: Conference participants can join a tour of the National Archives in College Park

Details are here:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2025 JOINT JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION HISTORY CONFERENCE The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference – co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and ...

03/04/2024

02/21/2024

The full program is out! See details here: https://ajha.wildapricot.org/JJCHC2023-Program

02/03/2024

Venue Changed for Joint Journalism History Conference

JJCHC Set for University of Maryland, College Park, on March 15, 2024

Heavy Construction at New York University Forces Conference Move to Washington, D.C., Area

The 2024 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, previously scheduled at New York University, has been moved to the University of Maryland in College Park.

The conference date remains the same– March 15. NewYork University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute recently informed conference organizers it just learned that loud, heavy construction would be taking place in the venue on the conference date, and that, unfortunately, the construction could not be canceled or changed.

The University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism has stepped up to ensure that the conference can be held this year. College Park, just outside Washington, D.C., is also home to National Archives II, a key research site for historians.

Contact one of the conference planners for more information:

● Ray Begovich, University of Indianapolis, [email protected];

● Theresa Russell-Loretz, Millersville University, [email protected];

● Rob Wells, University of Maryland, [email protected].

01/09/2024

Chinoy to Discuss History of Technology and Elections at 2024 JJCHC Conference

Veteran journalist and educator Ira Chinoy, Ph.D., will be the keynote speaker at the Joint Journalism Communications History Conference on March 15, 2024 at New York University.

Chinoy, an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, will discuss his forthcoming book, “Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting” (University of Nebraska Press, Potomac Books). https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640125964/

This book explores the contentious history of election nights as important venues in American culture for rolling out new tools for journalism and it addresses the way forward from the events of election night 2020 and the drama that followed.

Chinoy has 24 years of experience as a journalist at four newspapers: The Washington Post, The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, The Lawrence (Massachusetts) Eagle-Tribune and The Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Commercial.

At The Washington Post, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a 1998 series on the use of deadly force by the D.C. police. At The Providence Journal, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts.

Since 2001, Chinoy has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism teaching courses in the practice and history of journalism. He is the co-founder of the Future of Information Alliance, created at Maryland to foster transdisciplinary dialog, research and action on pressing information-related issues.

Chinoy graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1977. In 2010, he completed his Ph.D. in Journalism Studies at Maryland with a dissertation titled “Battle of the Brains: Election-Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age.” It won the annual dissertation prize by the American Journalism Historians Association.

In 2021 and 2023, Chinoy was awarded the Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division. In 2021 he also received the National Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Journalism Historians Association.

The Joint Journalism Communications History Conference will be held Friday, March 15, 2024 at the New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square,
6th Floor, New York, NY 10003. The deadline for paper and panel submissions is Friday, Jan 19. Details are here: https://ajha.wildapricot.org/JJCHC

01/08/2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2024 JOINT JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION

HISTORY CONFERENCE



The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference – co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication – is accepting submissions for its 2024 conference, which will to be held in person on March 15 in New York City.

JJCHC 2024 Info and Registration: https://ajha.wildapricot.org/JJCHC

The free, one-day, interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars researching the history of journalism and mass communication, including advertising and public relations. Topics from all geographic areas and time periods are welcome, as are all methodologies. The joint conference offers a welcoming environment in which participants can explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in mass communication history.

When: Friday, March 15, 2024, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) Time

Where: New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003

Registration fee: $80, including boxed lunch. Free for graduate students, with optional boxed lunch at cost.

Proposals for paper presentations, research-in-progress presentations, or panels are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale for why the research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

Papers are completed research studies. The paper should be attached to the submission (as a PDF or Microsoft Word document), and include an abstract of up to 500 words.

Research-in-Progress (RIP) proposals are projects currently underway and that could benefit from collegial feedback. An RIP submission is an abstract of up to 500 words.

Panels are pre-constituted presentations from multiple scholars working on similar topics or using similar methodological approaches. Panels generally consist of three to four scholars. To submit a panel proposal, please include an overview of the panel along with abstracts for each of the individual projects/presentations. The overview and the individual abstracts may each be up to 500 words.

Submissions should be emailed to [email protected].

Please remove any identifying information from your paper or abstract, and attach it to your email as a PDF or Microsoft Word document. In the body of your email, please include your name, preferred email address, institutional affiliation, and title/rank (if applicable). If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include that information for all panel participants.

The deadline for proposal submissions is 10 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.) Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. Authors will be notified as to whether their proposals were accepted no later than Feb. 12, 2024.

Please direct questions to one of the conference co-chairs:

Ray Begovich, University of Indianapolis, [email protected]

Theresa Russell-Loretz, Millersville University, [email protected]

Rob Wells, University of Maryland, [email protected]

When: Friday, March 15, 2024Where: New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003

10/31/2022

Too time crunched to hit that ICA History Division submission deadline tomorrow?

Our deadline is Feb. 15 and our conference is free. Send us your work and works in progress!

ajha.wildapricot.org/page-18248

05/05/2022

We have some wonderful panels lined up for our virtual conference next week! Hope you can join us. Registration is free:

https://ajha.wildapricot.org/event-4744015

01/04/2022

We're back!