AEJMC Award Recipients
Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
The Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development was created by AEJMC and the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in honor of the late Baskett Mosse, executive secretary of the Accrediting Committee for 26 years. The award recognizes an outstanding young or mid-career faculty member and helps fund a proposed enrichment activity. (Not awarded annually. Next award year is 2025.)
2024 — Not awarded this year
2023 — Amy Simons, Missouri
2022 — Not awarded this year
2021 — Karen Assmann, University of Georgia
2019 — Michelle K. Baker, Pennsylvania State
2017 — Janice Collins, Illinois
2015 — Kim Smith, North Carolina A&T
2013 — Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Texas at Austin
2011 — Murgur Geana, Kansas
2009 — Barbara Friedman, North Carolina
2005 — Robert Kerr, Oklahoma
2003 — Sandra Chance, Florida
2002 — Laura Castañeda, Southern California
2001 — Andrew Mendelson, Temple
2000 — Jan LeBlanc Wicks, Arkansas-Fayetteville
1999 — Debashis Aikat, North Carolina
1998 — Lauren Tucker, South Carolina
1996 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
1995 — Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Washington
1994 — Laurence B. Alexander, Florida
1993 — Glen Cameron, Georgia
1992 — Joy Morrison, Alaska-Fairbanks
1991 — Lael Morgan, Alaska-Fairbanks
1990 — C. Zoe Smith, Marquette
1989 — Stephen R. Lacy, Michigan State
Charles Salmon, Wisconsin-Madison
1988 — Terry Hynes, California State, Fullerton
1987 — Tony Atwater, Michigan State
1986 — Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio
1985— Margaret Ann Blanchard, North Carolina
1984— Donna Lee Dickerson, South Florida (first)
Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
This award was created by the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Research to recognize a person who has devoted a substantial part of his/her career to promoting research in mass communication. It is named in honor of the first recipient, Eleanor Blum, a communication librarian. This is not an annual award.
2024 — Clifford Christians, Research Professor Emeritus, Illinois
2023 — Patricia Moy, Washington
2022 — No award winner this year
2021 — Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State
2020 — Linda Steiner, Maryland
2019 — Melvin DeFleur, Louisiana State (posthumously)
2017 — Esther Thorson, Michigan State
2016 — Paula Poindexter, Texas at Austin
2014 — Dan Riffe, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2008 — Maurine Beasley, Maryland
2007 — Patrick Washburn, Ohio
2006 — James W. Tankard, Jr., Texas at Austin (posthumously)
2005 — Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina (posthumously)
2004 — Everette E. Dennis, Fordham
2003 — James A. Crook, Tennessee
2001 — Barbara Semouche, North Carolina
1996 — Frances Wilhoit, Indiana
1989 — Guido Stempel, III, Ohio
1986 — Ed Emery, Minnesota
1983 — Raymond B. Nixon, Minnesota
1980 — Eleanor Blum, Illinois (first)
Gene Burd Award for Excellence in Urban Journalism Winners
The Gene Burd Award for Excellence in Urban Journalism is named after Gene Burd, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas, who endowed the Urban Communication Foundation who gives this award. The purpose of the Award is to reward and thereby improve the practice and study of journalism in the urban environment by recognizing high quality urban media reporting, critical analysis, and research relevant to that content and its communication about city problems, programs, policies, and public priorities in urban life and culture. Each year, AEJMC presents this award at the AEJMC Conference.2024 — Suzette Hackney, USA Today
2023 — Yvonne Latty, Temple
2022 — Natalie Moore, WBEZ in Chicago
2021 — Gabrielle Gurley, The American Prospect
2020 — No Award
2019 — Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune
2018 — Brian Lehere, Brian Talks New York Radio Show
2017 — Jeff McCarter, Free Spirit Media
2016 — Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe
2015 — Ben Katchor, cartoonist and author
2014 — Sommer Mathis, CityLab
2013 — Tom Condon, The Courant
2012 — Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune
2011 — Susan Szenasy, METROPOLIS Magazine
2010 — Joel Kothin, Urban Historian
and Inga Saffron, Philadelphia Inquirer
2009 — Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker
2008 — Paul Goldberger, Whole Earth Catalog
2007 — Peter Applebome, New York Times
and Joel Garreau, Washington Post
2006 — John King, San Francisco ChronicleGene Burd Award for Research in Urban Journalism Studies
The purpose of this annual grant is to stimulate research that explains, enlightens, inspires, and improves the practice and study of journalism and communication in order to advance our understanding of journalism in urban environments.2024 — Gyo Hyun Koo, Howard University for Promoting Inclusive Narratives: Enhancing CommunityDriven Journalism in Reporting Urban Youth Crime
2023 — Kelsey N. Whipple, Massachusetts Amherst, for Parachute Journalism: How Local and Regional U.S. Journalists Construct and Perceive National Coverage of Crises in their Communities
2022 — Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, Marquette University, and Joy Jenkins, University of Tennessee, for For the Neighborhood: Examining the Role of Local Digital News in the Creation and Disruption of Territorial Stigma
2021 — George Daniels, University of Alabama for Exploring the Role of Black Newspapers Filling Urban Government News Coverage
Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
This award is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, who was a central force in the movement to study journalism and mass communication scientifically. He helped establish and develop the College of Communication Arts at Michigan State University, and served as director of its Communications Research Center. This award is presented by the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Research. This is not an annual award.
2024 — Wayne Wanta, Florida
2023 — Jane Singer, City, University of London
2022 — Annie Lang, Indiana University Bloomington
2021 — Glen T. Cameron, University of Missouri
2020 — Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019 — Esther Thorson, Michigan State
2018 — S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State
2017 — Steve Reese, Texas at Austin
2015 — Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse University
2013 — Lee Becker, Georgia
2011 — Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
2010 — Stephen Lacy, Michigan State
2009 — David Weaver, Indiana
2007 — Guido H. Stempell, III, Ohio
2005 — Donald L. Shaw, North Carolina
2004 — Clifford Christians, Illinois
2003 — Melvin DeFleur, Boston
2001 — Ivan Preston, Wisconsin-Madison
2000 — James Grunig, Maryland
1999 — Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1998 — Maxwell E. McCombs, Texas at Austin
1997 — Jack M. McLeod, Wisconsin-Madison
1996 — George Gerbner, Pennsylvania
1995 — Richard F. Carter, Washington
1994 — Phillip Tichenor, Minnesota
George Donohue, Minnesota
Clarice Olien, Minnesota
1993 — Wayne Danielson, Texas at Austin
1991 — Scott Cutlip, Georgia
1985 — Bruce Westley, Kentucky
1981 — Harold L. Nelson, Wisconsin-Madison
1979— J. Edward Gerald, Minnesota
1973 — Wilbur Schramm, Iowa
1972 — Ralph O. Nafziger, Minnesota/Wisconsin-Madison
1969— Chilton R. Bush, Stanford (first)
Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award
Formerly known as Krieghbaum Under 40 Award, the Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award honors AEJMC members who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professor emeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded the award in 1980. Annual award.
2024 — Emily Vraga, Minnesota
2023 — Ryan Thomas, Washington State
2022 — Linjuan Rita Men, University of Florida
2021 — Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth
2020 — Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Nanyang Technological
Janet Yang, Buffalo-The State University of New York
2019 — Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Georgia
2018 — Shirley S. Ho, Nanyang Technological
2017 — Jakob D. Jensen, University of Utah
2016 — Jörg Matthes, Vienna
2015 — Homero Gil de Zúñiga, University of Vienna
2014 — Yan Jin, Virginia Commonwealth
2013 — John Besley, Michigan State
2012 — Susan Robinson, Wisconsin-Madison
2011 — Sri Kalyanaraman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010 — Dietram Scheufele, Wisconsin-Madison
2009 — Kimberly Bissell, Alabama
2008 — Patricia Moy, Washington
2007 — William P. Eveland, Jr., Ohio State
2006 — David S. Domke, Washington
2005 — Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison
2004 — Clay Calvert, Pennsylvania State
2003 — Julie Andsager, Washington State
2002 — David T.Z. Mindich, Saint Michael’s
2001 — Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State
2000 — Carolyn Kitch, Temple
1999 — David Atkin, Cleveland State
1998 — Edward Adams, Angelo State
1997 — Annie Lang, Indiana
1996 — John Ferré, Louisville
1995 — Wayne Wanta, Oregon
1994 — Stephen D. Reese, Texas at Austin
1993 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Texas A&M
1992 — Carroll Glynn, Cornell
1991 — Jeff Smith, Iowa
1990 — Pamela Shoemaker, Texas at Austin
1989— Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison
1988 — Jane D. Brown, North Carolina
1987 — Theodore Glasser, Minnesota
1986— Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
1985— Lee Becker, Ohio State
1984— Ellen Wartella, Illinois
1983— David Weaver, Indiana
1982— Everette Dennis, Oregon
1981— David Rubin, New York (first)
Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award
This award is named for pioneering journalism and mass communication educators Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White, who donated the royalties from their book Introduction to Mass Communication Research to fund the award. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding dissertation research in journalism and mass communication. Michael Salwen’s name was added to the award in 2008. Salwen, who died in 2007, was a co-author of An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research, the royalties of which now help fund this award. Annual award. Year listed is year award was presented.
2024 — Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin
2023 — Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Michigan
Adviser: Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern
2022 — Rana Arafat, City University of London
Advisers: Jolanta A. Drzewiecka and Russ-Mohl
2021 — Scott Memmel, University of Minnesota
Adviser: Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota
2020 — Qun Wang, Rutgers
Adviser: Susan Keith, Rutgers
2019 — Pallavi Guha, Maryland (Now at Towson)
Advisers: Kalyani Chadha & Linda Steiner, Maryland
2018 — Brooks Fuller, Louisiana State University
Adviser: Cathy L. Packer, professor emeritus, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017 — Jieun Shin, University of Southern California
Adviser: Lian Jian, University of Southern California
2016 — Rodrigo Zamith, Massachusetts-Amherst
Adviser: Seth Lewis, Minnesota
2015 — Summer Harlow, Texas at Austin
Adviser: (Co-advisers) Dr. Thomas J. Johnston and Dr. Mercedes de Uriarte, Texas-Austin
2014 — Scott Parrott, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Rhonda Gibson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013 — Brendan Watson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012 — Dean Smith, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Cathy Packer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2011 — Matthew W. Ragas, DePaul
Adviser: Spiro Kiousis, Florida
2010 — Jeremy Littau, Lehigh
Adviser: Esther Thorson, Missouri
2009 — Leigh Moscowitz, College of Charleston
Adviser: Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana
2008 — Ronald J. “Noah” Arceneaux, San Diego State
Adviser: Jay Hamilton, Georgia
2007 — David Cuillier, Washington State
Adviser: Susan Denté Ross, Washington State
2006 — Kathy Roberts Forde, North Carolina
Adviser: Ruth Walden, North Carolina
2005 — Young Mie Kim, Illinois
Adviser: David Tewksbury, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004 — Zala Voicic, Colorado at Boulder
Adviser: Andrew Calabrese, Colorado at Boulder
2003 — Mark Avrom Feldstein, North Carolina
Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina
2002 — Carolyn Bronstein, DePaul
Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
2001 — Edward Alwood, North Carolina
Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina
2000 — Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: Daniel B. Wackman, Minnesota
1999 — Barbara Zang, Missouri
Adviser: David Nord, Indiana
1998 — Craig Trumbo, Cornell
Adviser: Garrett O’Keefe, Wisconsin-Madison
1997 — David Scott Domke, Minnesota
Adviser: Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1996 — Paul Voakes, Indiana
Adviser: Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison
1995 — Karen S. Miller, Georgia
Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
1994 — Jane Rhodes, Indiana
Adviser: Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina
1993 — Caroline Schooler, Stanford
Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1992 — Mark D. West, North Carolina
Adviser: Jane Brown, North Carolina
1991 — Namjun Kang, Syracuse
Adviser: George Comstock, Syracuse
1990 — Bob McChesney, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: William Ames, Washington
1989 — Diane C. Mutz, Wisconsin-Madison,
Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1988 — Vincent Price, Michigan,
Adviser: Donald F. Roberts, Stanford
1987— John R. Finnegan, Jr., Minnesota,
Adviser: Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1986 — Jeffery Smith, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: Jim Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
1985— Richard Kielbowicz, Minnesota
Advisers: Ed Emery, Minnesota; and Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1984— Ron Tamborini, Indiana (first)
Adviser: Dolf Zillmann, Indiana
AEJMC Presidential Award
Given to dedicated and long-serving AEJMC members by the current AEJMC president. The award recognizes distinguished service to journalism and mass communication education. This award is presented on an as-appropriate basis.
2023 — Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation
2020 — Kyu Ho Youm, Oregon
2019 — Special statement regarding the 2019 recipient
2018 — Charles Self, 227 International, LLC
2017 — Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
2016 — Barbara Hines, Howard
2015 — Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern
2014 — Carolyn Stroman, Howard
2013 — Douglas Anderson, Pennsylvania State
2011 — David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael’s
2010 — Suzette Heiman, Missouri
2009 — Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State
Alexis Tan, Washington State
2008 — Keith Sanders, Missouri
Silvia Pellegrini, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
2007 — Donald Shaw, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maxwell McCombs, Texas at Austin
2006 — David Weaver, Indiana
Cleveland Wilhoit, Indiana
2005 — Kim Rotzell, Illinois (posthumously)
2004 — Lee Becker, Georgia
Trevor Brown, Indiana
2003 — James Carey, Columbia
Clifford Christians, Illinois
2002 — Terry Michael, Washington Center for Politics and Journalism
Roberta Win, Voice of America
2001 — Susanne Shaw, Kansas
David McHam, Houston
2000 — Karen Brown Dunlap, Poynter Institute
Oscar Gandy, Pennsylvania
1999 — Mark Goodman, Student Press Law Center
1998 — Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC
1997 — Lionel Barrow, Jr., Howard
1996 — Gerald M. Sass, The Freedom Forum
Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1995 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
Harry Heintzen, Voice of America
1994 — Edwin Emery, Minnesota
1993 — Orlando Taylor, Howard
Vernon Stone, Missouri
1992 — Sharon Brock, Ohio State
Carol Reuss, North Carolina
1991 — Bill Taft, Missouri
John Merrill, Louisiana State
1990 — Wilma Crumley, Nebraska
1989 — Hillier Krieghbaum, New York
1988 — Fred Zwahlen, Oregon State
1987 — Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California
1985 — Al Scroggins, South Carolina
1984 — Bill Chamberlin, North Carolina
Gerald Stone, Memphis State
The Charles E. Scripps Award for the Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year
This award is given in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). It is open to any past or present administrator of a school, department of journalism or mass communication at accredited or non-accredited schools.2023 — Ann Brill, Kansas (Awarded in 2024)
2022 — David D. Kurpius, Missouri (Awarded in 2023)
2021 — David Boardman, Temple University (Awarded in 2022)
2020 — Lucy Dalglish, University of Maryland (Awarded in 2021)
2019 — Susan King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Awarded in 2020)
2018 — Diane McFarlin, University of Florida (Awarded in 2019)
2017 — Don Heider, Loyola University Chicago (Awarded in 2018)
2016 — Maryanne Reed, West Virginia University
2015 — Michael Bugeja, Iowa State
2014 — Al Tims, Minnesota
2013 — Lori Bergen, Marquette
2012 — Tim Gleason, Oregon
2011 — John Lavine, Northwestern
2010 — Paul Parsons, Elon
2009 — Chris Callahan, Arizona State
2008 — Marilyn Weaver, Ball State
2007 — David Rubin, Syracuse
2006 — Shirley Carter, South Carolina
2005 — Tom Kunkel, Maryland
2004 — Will Norton, Nebraska-Lincoln
2003 — John Hamilton, Louisiana State
2002 — Richard Lee, South Dakota State
2001 — Trevor Brown, Indiana
2000 — Jo Ann Huff Albers, Western Kentucky
1999 — No award presented this year
1998 — Bob Ruggles, Florida A&M
1997 — Terry Hynes, Florida
1996 — Doug Anderson, Arizona State
1995 — Reese Cleghorn, Maryland
1994 — Ralph Lowenstein, Florida
1993 — Ed Bassett, Washington
1992 — Richard Cole, North Carolina
1991 — Walt Bunge, Ohio State
1990 — Jim Carey, Illinois
1989 — Neale Copple, Nebraska-Lincoln (First)The Charles E. Scripps Award for the Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year
This award is given in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Full-time faculty member teaching in any of the disciplines of journalism and mass communication who, over the years, has consistently demonstrated an environment of excellence by ongoing contributions to the improvement of student learning.
2023 — Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
2022 — Rachel Young, Iowa (Awarded in 2023)
2021 — Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon (Awarded in 2022)
2020 — Kathleen Culver, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Awarded in 2021)
2019 — Jennifer Thomas, Howard University (Awarded in 2020)
2018 — Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State University (Awarded in 2019)
2017 — Sheri Broyles, University of North Texas (Awarded in 2018)
2016 — Allan Richards, Florida International University
2015 — Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Georgia
2014 — Carol Schwalbe, Arizona
2013 — Cindy Royal, Texas State San Marcos
2012 — Jennifer George-Paliliois, Ball State
2011 — Douglas Ward, Kansas
2010 — Joe Saltzman, Southern California
2009 — Chris Roush, North Carolina Chapel Hill
2008 — Charles Davis, Missouri
2007 — Elinor Grusin, Memphis
AEJMC First Amendment Award
The AEJMC First Amendment Award recognizes professionals with a strong commitment to freedom of the press, and who practice courageous journalism. Created in 2006, the award is presented by the Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee. Annual award.
2024 — Errin Haines and Staff, The 19th
2023 — Margaret Sullivan, Syndicated Columnist
2022 — Steven Waldman, Report for America
2021 — Omar Jimenez, CNN
2020 — Shane Bauer, Mother Jones
2019 — Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine
2018 — Ronan Farrow, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The New York Times
2017 — The Pulitzer Prizes
2016 — Reporters Without Borders
2015 — Floyd Abrams, 1st Amendment Attorney
2014 — Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists
2013 — First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN
2012 — Carole Simpson, Broadcaster
2011 — Michael Kirk, Frontline Filmmaker
2010 — Nat Hentoff, Syndicated Columnist
2009 — Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
2008 — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
2007 — Helen Thomas, UPI, Hearst
2006 — Molly Ivins, Synidcated Columnist (first)
AEJMC Tankard Book Award
The Tankard Book Award was established to honor James W. Tankard, Jr. of Texas at Austin. A former editor of Journalism Monographs, the award recognizes his many contributions to the field of journalism and mass communication education. Award established in 2007.
2024 — Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau for Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century
2023 — Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, for Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept
2022 — Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas at Austin, and Jeannine E. Relly, University of Arizona, for Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press)
2021 — Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, & the New Protest #Journalism [New York: Oxford University Press, 2020] • Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California
2019 — Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities • Sue Robinson, Wisconsin, Madison
2018 — The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia • Michael Clay Carey, Samford University
2017 — Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism • James T. Hamilton, Stanford University
2016 — Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach • Stephen Ward, Wisconsin-Madison
2015 — Making News at The New York Times • Nikki Usher, George Washington University
2014 — Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison • Rodney Benson, New York
2013 — Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the Newsby • Tom Mascaro, Bowling Green State
2012 —Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest by • Matthew C. Ehrlich, Illinois
2011 —About to Die: How News Images Move the Public by • Barbie Zelizer, Pennsylvania
2010 —Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by • John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State
2009 — The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy by • Mark R. Neuzil, St. Thomas
2008 —Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press by • Edward M. Alwood, Quinnipiac
2007 — The African-American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom by • Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio (first)
AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
The AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize will be given annually to a book or project concerning Latin America or coverage of issues in Latin America. The work must make an original contribution to improve knowledge about Latin America to U.S. students, journalists or the public. This award was endowed by the late Jerry Knudson, an emeritus professor at Temple University.
2024 — Martin Echeverría and Frida V. Rodelo for Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
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Summer Harlow for Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism
2023 — Claudia Labarca, Gabriel Sadi and Damion Waymer, for Special Issue: Towards a Latin American Perspective in PR Theory and Practice (Published in the May 2022 issue of Public Relations Inquiry)
2022 — Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas at Austin, and Jeannine E. Relly, University of Arizona, for Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press)
2019 — News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean • Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Manuel Chavez and Mercedes Vigón
2018 — Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-appropriating Social Media Among Alternative Media Projects • Summer Harlow, University of Houston
2017 — Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America • Maria Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord
2016 — Reporting the Cuban Revolution • Leonard Ray Teel, emeritus Georgia State
2015 — Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free • Hector Tobar, University of Oregon
2014 — Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State • John P. Hawkins, Brigham Young University, James H. McDonald, Southern Utah University, Walter Randolph Adams, Iowa State University (first)
AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award
The AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award recognizes Journalism and Mass Communication academic programs that are working toward, and have attained measurable success, in increasing equity and diversity within their units. Programs must display progress and innovation in racial, gender, and ethnic equity and diversity over the previous three-year period. Created in 2009. Annual award.
2024 — The School of Journalism & Media and Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2023 — Department of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Memphis
2022 — Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton
2021 — University of Missouri School of Journalism
2020 — S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
2019 — Reynolds, School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
2018 — Klein College of Media & Communication, Temple University
2017 — Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
2016 — Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas
2015 — College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama
2014 — Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University
2013 — College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University
2012 — Annenberg School for Journalism, University of Southern California
2011 — School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Texas State University, San Marcos
2010 — School of Communications, Elon University
2009 — Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (first)
Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
The Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service will recognize an AEJMC member who has a sustained and significant public-service record that has helped build bridges between academics and professionals in mass communications either nationally or locally, and, been actively engaged within the association. Created in 2012. Annual award.
2024 — Chris Roberts, Alabama
2023 — Matt Ragas, DePaul
2022 — Joe Grimm, Michigan State
2021 — Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State University
2020 — Bill Cassidy, Northern Illinois
Carol Holstead, Kansas
2019 — Jan Leach, Kent State
2018 — Donald K. Wright, Boston
2017 — Sandra Utt, Memphis
2016 — Rosental Alves, Texas at Austin
2015 — Wat Hopkins, Virginia Tech
2014 — Don W. Stacks, Miami
2013 — Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth
2012 — Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State (first)
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Education
This award, presented by the Commission on the Status of Women in Journalism Education, recognizes a woman who has represented women well through personal excellence and high standards in journalism and mass communication education. Not an annual award.
2023 — Cory Armstrong, Nebraska-Lincoln
2021 — Amanda Hinnant, Missouri
2020 — Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
2019 — Stacey J.T. Hust, Washington State
2017 — Lucinda D. Davenport, Michigan State
2016 — Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor
2015 — Julie Andsager, Tennessee
2014 — June Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth
2013 — Geneva Overholser, Southern California
2012 — Barbara B. Hines, Howard
2011 — Linda Steiner, Maryland
2010 — Diane Borden, San Diego State
2009 — Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International
2008 — Esther Thorson, Missouri
2006 — Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth
2002 — Wilma Crumley, Nebraska-Lincoln
2000 — Douglas Ann Newsom, Texas Christian
1998 — Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC
1997 — Carol Oukrop, Kansas State
1996 — Carol Reuss, North Carolina
1994 — Maurine H. Beasley, Maryland
1992 — Jean Ward, Minnesota
1991 — MaryAnn Yodelis Smith, Wisconsin
1990 — Ramona Rush, Kentucky
1989 — Mary Gardner, Michigan State
1988— Donna Allen, Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DC
1983— Cathy Covert, Syracuse
1982— Marion Marzolf, Michigan (first)
Robert Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award
This award is presented annually by the Scholastic Journalism Division to organizations or individuals who have made outstanding efforts in attracting high school minority students into journalism and mass communication. Created in 1987.
2023 — R. J. Morgan, Mississippi
2020 — Ed Madison, Oregon
2019 — Tori Smith, Northern Arizona
2018 — Acel Moore High School Journalism Workshop, The Philadelphia Media Network
2016 — Kimetris Baltrip, Kansas State
2015 — George Daniels, Alabama
2014 — Steve O’Donoghue, California Scholastic Journalism Initiative
2013 — Linda Florence Callahan, North Carolina A&T State
2012 — Illinois Press Foundation and Eastern Illinois University High School Journalism Workshop
2011 — Joseph Selden, Pennsylvania State
2010 — University of Arizona School of Journalism
2009 — Michael Days & Staff,Philadelphia Daily News
2008 — June O. Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth
2007 — Ed Mullins,Alabama
2006 — NO AWARD GIVEN
2005 — Linda Ximenes,Ximenes & Associates
2004 — Diana Mitsu Klos,American Society of Newspaper Editors
2003 — Vanessa Shelton,Iowa
2002 — Walt Swanston,Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
2001 — Doris Giago,South Dakota State
2000 — Linda Waller, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
1999 — Marie Parsons, Alabama
1998 — Lucy Ganje, North Dakota
1997 — California Chicano News Media Association, San Diego Chapter
1996 — Barbara Hines, Howard
1995 — Diane Hall, Florida A&M
1994 — Mary Arnold, Iowa
1993 — Alice Bonner, The Freedom Forum
1992 — Richard Lee, South Dakota State
1991 — Thomas Engleman, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
1990 — Robert Knight, Missouri
1989 — George Curry, The Chicago Tribune, Washington, DC, Bureau
1988— Craig Trygstad, Youth Communication, Inc., Washington, DC
1987— Pittsburgh Black Media Federation (first)
MaryAnn Yodelis Smith Research Award
This award was created in 1991 by the Commission on the Status of Women in honor and memory of MaryAnn Yodelis Smith of Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1989-90 AEJMC president.
2023 — Sahar Khamis, Maryland, College Park
2021 — Lisa D. Lenoir, Missouri
2020 — Jennifer Huemmer, Ithaca
Lauren Britton, Ithaca
2019 — Karin Assmann, University of Maryland and Stine Eckert, Wayne State
2017 – Chelsea Reynolds, California State-Fullerton
2016 — Tania Rosas-Moreno, Loyola-Maryland
2015 — Dustin Harp, Texas at Arlington
2014 — Stacey J.T. Hust and Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, Washington State
2013 — Cory Armstrong, Florida
2012 — Shayla Thiel-Stern, Minnesota
2011 — Marilyn Greenwald, Ohio
2010 — Sheila Webb, Western Washington
2009 — Elizabeth Skewes, Colorado
2008 — Margaretha Geertsema, Butler
2007 — Barbara Barnett, Kansas
2006 — Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State
2005 — Jan Whitt, Colorado
2004 — Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana
Kavitha Cardoza, Illinois at Springfield
2003 — Susan Henry, California State-Northridge
2000 — E-K Daufin, Alabama State
1999 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Florida A&M
1998 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
1997 — Kathleen Endres, Akron
1996 — Linda Steiner, Rutgers
1995 — Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Iowa (first)
Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education
Created in 2009, the award recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts within the Journalism and Mass Communication discipline. Created by the AEJMC Minorities & Communication Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities, the award honors Barrow’s lasting impact, and recognizes others who are making their mark in diversifying JMC education.
2024 — Dorothy Bland, North Texas
2023 — Bey-Ling Sha, California State Fullerton
2022 — Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State University
2021 — Earnest Perry, University of Missouri
2020 — Meta Carstarphen, Oklahoma
2019 — Rochelle Ford, Elon
2018 — Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor
2017 — Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern
2016 — Joel Beeson, West Virginia
2015 — Alice Tait, Central Michigan
2014 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Marketing and Media Consultant
2013 — Clint C. Wilson II, Howard
2012 — Federico Subervi, Texas State San Marcos
2011 — Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California
2010 — Robert M. Ruggles, Florida A&M
2009 — Paula M. Poindexter, Texas at Austin (first)
Lee Barrow Doctoral Minority Student Scholarship
Sponsored by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division, the scholarship is named for Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr., of Howard University in recognition of his pioneering efforts in support of minority education in journalism and mass communication. The scholarship assists a minority student enrolled in a doctoral program in journalism or mass communication.
2023 — Joshua D. Cloudy, Texas Tech
2022 — Kristina Medero, Ohio State
2021 — Krishna Madhavi P. Reddi, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
2018 — Qun Wang, Rutgers
2017 — Osita Iroegbu, Virginia Commonwealth
2016 — Adrienne Muldrow, Washington State
2015 — Diane Francis, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 — Jenny Korn, Harvard
2013 — Dominique Harrison, Howard
2012 — Rowena Briones, Maryland
2011 — Adrienne Chung, Ohio State
2010 — Eulalia Puig Abril,Wisconsin-Madison
2009 — Emily Elizabeth Acosta,Wisconsin-Madison
2008 — Troy Elias,Ohio State
2007 — Yusur Kalynago, Jr.,Missouri
2006 — Omotayo Banjo, Pennsylvania State
2005 — Jeanetta Simms,Central Oklahoma
2004 — Susan Chang,Michigan State
2003 — T. Kenn Gaither,North Carolina
2002 — Mia Moody-Hall,Texas at Austin
2001 — George Daniels,Georgia
2000 — Maria E. Len-Rios,Missouri
1999 — Meredith Lee Ballmer,Washington
1998 — Osei Appiah
1997 — Alice Chan Plummer, Michigan State
1996 — Dwayne Proctor,Connecticut
1995 — Dhavan Shah, Minnesota
1994 — Qingnen Dong, Washington State
1993 — Shalini Venturelli, Colorado
1991 — Diana Rios, Texas at Austin
1990 — Jose Lozano
1989 — Jane Rhodes, North Carolina
1987 — James Sumner Lee, North Carolina
1985 — Barbara McBain Brown, Stanford
1983 — Dianne L. Cherry, North Carolina
1982 — Tony Atwater, Michigan State
1981 — Sharon Bramlett, Indiana
1980 — Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison
1979 — Gillian Grannum, North Carolina
1978 — Paula Poindexter, Syracuse
1977 — John J. Johnson, Ohio
1975 — Norman W. Spaulding, Illinois
1974 — Rita Fujiki, Washington
1973 — William E. Berry, Illinois
Clay Perry, Indiana
Sherrie Lee Mazingo, Michigan State
1972 — Richard Allen, Wisconsin-Madison (first)
AEJMC Presidential Leadership Excellence Award
2023 — Felicia Greenlee Brown, Assistant Director
2016 — Jennifer H. McGill, Executive Director (Retired)
2016 — Lillian Coleman, Project Director
2016 — Pamella Price, Membership Coordinator (Retired)
2015 — Richard Burke, Business Manager (Retired)
2015 — Fred Williams, Conference Manager (Retired)AEJMC Presidential Stellar Service Award
2023 — Cassidy Baird, Conference & Events Coordinator
2023 — Kyshia Brown, Website Content/Graphic Designer
2023 — Amanda Caldwell, Executive Director
2023 — Lillian Coleman, Project Director
2023 — Felicia Greenlee Brown, Assistant Director
2023 — Samantha Higgins, Communications Director
2023 — Saviela Thorne, Membership Coordinator
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