Awards and Calls
Calls for AEJMC Award Nominations
AEJMC membership is required for application of AEJMC Awards. Many AEJMC calls for award and grant nominations have been revised. One of the directives during the past year for AEJMC leaders has been to revise language in all calls to better reflect inclusivity and diversity. So, if you are nominating or self-nominating, please be sure to follow the new guidelines below.
- NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — DECEMBER 15, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
The Blum Research Award was created to recognize people who have devoted substantial parts of their careers to promoting research in mass communication. It is named in honor of its first recipient, the late Eleanor Blum, a long time communications librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Deadline: Nominations are due December 15, 2024. See complete call. - AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — APRIL 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award recognizes journalism and mass communication academic units that are working toward, and have attained measurable success, in increasing equity and diversity among their faculty, staff and students. The unit must display progress and innovation in racial, gender, and ethnic equality and diversity during the previous three years. - NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
AEJMC First Amendment Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — FEBRUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
Created in 2006, the AEJMC First Amendment Award recognizes individuals or organizations who demonstrate a strong commitment to freedom of the press and who practice or support courageous journalism. Note: AEJMC members are not eligible to receive this award. Deadline is February 15, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — MARCH 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee 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. Nominees must also be AEJMC members in good standing at the time of the nomination and during the preceding two years. Deadline: March 15, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOVEMBER 15, 2024 — MARCH 1, 2025
An AEJMC and ACEJMC Award
Created by AEJMC and ACEJMC in honor of the late Baskett Mosse, executive secretary of the Accrediting Committee for 26 years, the Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development recognizes an outstanding young or midcareer faculty member in journalism or mass communication. (Not awarded annually.) Deadline: Applications are due March 1, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — MARCH 1, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service recognizes 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. Deadline: March 1, 2025. See complete call. - Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2025 — DECEMBER 1, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
The Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research recognizes a body of significant research over the course of an individual’s career. The award is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, who developed the College of Communication Arts at Michigan State University. It serves as the AEJMC Research Award, recognizing the top scholars in the association who have made a major impact on the research of the field during their career. The Deutschmann Award is based on demonstrable influence on the field and is therefore not necessarily awarded every year. - NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
This is an annual award given to a book or project concerning Latin America or coverage of issues in Latin America. Submitted works 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. Knudson was a long-time AEJMC member whose research and publications focused on Latin America. Deadline: Nominations are due January 15, 2025. See complete call. - Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research AwardThe award recognizes excellence in Ph.D. dissertation research that demonstrates potentially significant impact and importance in the field of journalism and communication research and includes a monetary prize. The award is named for Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White, authors of Introduction to Mass Communication Research, and Michael Salwen, coauthor of An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research. - NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Tankard Book Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding book in the field of journalism and communication. It also honors authors whose work embodies excellence in research, writing and creativity. First presented in 2007, the award is named in honor of Dr. James Tankard, Jr., posthumous recipient of AEJMC’s 2006 Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award, former editor of Journalism Monographs and a longtime University of Texas at Austin journalism professor. Deadline: Nominations are due January 15, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS NOVEMBER 15, 2024 — APRIL 1, 2025
A Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women Award
This recognition is designed to honor early-career women faculty researchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy. (This award is administered by AEJMC.) Deadline: Nominations are due April 1, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — MAY 1, 2025
An AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division and AEJMC Commission on the Status of Minorities Award
The award recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity, in journalism and mass communication. Nominations are due May 1, 2025. See complete call. - The Gene Burd Award for Research in Urban Journalism Studies
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2025 — NOVEMBER 15, 2025
An Urban Communication Foundation and AEJMC Award
The purpose of this annual grant is to stimulate research that explains, enlightens, inspires, and improves the practice of journalism and communication in order to advance our understanding of journalism in urban environments. It may be awarded to faculty, graduate students, or a team of both. - The Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS MARCH 1, 2025 — APRIL 30, 2025
An Urban Communication Foundation and AEJMC Award
This award recognizes high-quality urban reporting or critical analysis relevant to city problems, programs, policies, and public priorities in urban life and culture. The award, for a journalist with a distinguished record of work in urban journalism. - Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 15, 2025
A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award
Full-time administrator of a journalism, mass communication or communication program who, over a period of years, has consistently demonstrated an environment of leadership excellence by ongoing contributions to the improvement of learning and teaching. Open to accredited and non-accredited schools. - Journalism Teacher of the Year Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 15, 2025
A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award
This call is open to full-time faculty members or teaching journalism who, over a period of years, has consistently demonstrated an environment of excellence by ongoing contributions to the improvement of student learning. Open to nominees who teach students how to gather, assess, create, and present news, information and commentary via print and electronic media. Nominees may be from accredited or non-accredited schools, but must consistently teach primarily journalism courses. - NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Best Practices in Teaching Competition
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — FEBRUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching Competition
This competition honors innovative teaching ideas from JMC colleagues. Each year, the AEJMC Teaching Committee selects winners in a themed competition highlighting different areas across the journalism and mass communication curriculum. Winning entries are published in an e-booklet. The 2025 Best Practices Competition invites submissions centered on teaching and the ethical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging media technologies (e.g., AR/VR) in media disciplines. Deadline is February 15, 2025. See complete call. - AEJMC Senior Scholar Grants
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 1, 2025
An AEJMC Program
The AEJMC Senior Scholars Program awards grants to senior (typically tenured) scholars to fund innovative and timely research projects in journalism and mass communication. Applicants must be AEJMC members. - AEJMC Emerging Scholar Grants
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 1, 2025
An AEJMC Program
The AEJMC Emerging Scholars Program award research and teaching grants to emerging scholars to fund research or teaching proposals to encourage innovative and timely projects in journalism and mass communication. Applicants must be current AEJMC faculty members.
- NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS
The Research Grant to Support Innovative News Audience & News Engagement Studies
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS DECEMBER 15, 2024 — MARCH 1, 2025
An AEJMC and News Engagement Day Award
The Research Grant to Support Innovative News Audience & News Engagement Studies encourages the exploration of the news audience and news engagement in new ways to answer never before asked theoretical and real-world questions relevant to today’s times and the future. The winning proposal receives $3,000. This research grant replaces the News Audience Research Paper Award. Deadline is March 1, 2025. See complete call.
Calls for Papers, Proposals & Editors
- NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
AEJMC Champions of Editing Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching
AEJMC is seeking submissions for the 2025 Champions of Editing Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Deborah Gump launched the Champions of Editing, formerly known as the Breakfast of Editing Champions, about 20 years ago. In the spirit of celebrating excellence in teaching editing, the Champions of Editing is announcing a teaching prize open to AEJMC members from all divisions, interest groups, etc. The prize will highlight innovative approaches to teaching editing. Editing is a nearly universal component of journalism and mass communication. Submission deadline: May 15, 2025. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Apply Now for Scripps Howard/AEJMC Visiting Professors Program
The Scripps Howard/AEJMC Visiting Professors Program offers AEJMC members an opportunity to spend a week at a select news outlet during the summer of 2025. Its goal is to give JMC educators a hands-on opportunity to update their journalism skills and enhance their knowledge of newsroom technology and changes. The program, funded by the Scripps Howard Fund and administered by AEJMC, will also sponsor a professional from the news outlet to travel to the Visiting Professor’s campus for a two- or three-day visit next fall – activities for the professional can range from being a campus conference keynote speaker or panelist, featured classroom lecturer, or workshop presenter. Applicants must be fulltime faculty and current AEJMC members. Graduate students are not eligible for the program. Deadline to apply for the program is 5 p.m. EST March 1. See complete call. - NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES
Award Call: Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division is soliciting entries for its annual award for the best journalism and mass communication history book. The winning author will receive a plaque and a $500 prize at the August 2025 AEJMC conference in San Francisco. Attendance at the conference is encouraged as the winner will be honored at a History Division awards event. The author also will be invited to discuss the winning book during a live taping of the Journalism History podcast, which traditionally takes place during the reception. Entries must be received by February 1, 2025. See complete call. - CLOSED.
Call for Papers and Works in Progress
2025 Southeast Colloquium – March 13-15, 2025
Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED for the 50th annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium regional conference. Decisions will be sent no later than January 16, 2025. The conference will be fully in-person. We encourage undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars to be part of the 2025 Southeast Colloquium. You can present and receive feedback on your work in time to revise and submit work for the 2025 AEJMC national conference in San Francisco in August. Submission Deadline: 5 p.m. EST December 11, 2024. See complete call.
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