Latest issue of Magazine Matter

Enjoy the latest issue of our newsletter, Magazine Matter. Many thanks to newsletter editor Sheila Webb for editing and producing this colorful issue. Please send her articles for the next issue.

Student Magazine Contest

The deadline for the AEJMC Student Magazine Contest is Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Each school may enter only five entries per category. The fee is $10 per entry. The call for entries provides all the details. Each entry must be accompanied by a correct entry form signed by a faculty member. If you have questions, please email Carol Holstead.

Special issue of the Magazine Division’s journal

Read these featured essays in our Journal of Magazine & New Media Research. "The Journalism of Deception" was the designated topic for a panel at the August 2011 annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, one that prompted both widely divergent informal presentations and a lively, extended discussion with the audience. The four panelists considered the role that deception plays in journalistic practice from historical, ethical, and legal perspectives and against its new digital age backdrop. What follows are written versions of the panel talks, offered in the spirit of continuing the conversation that began so many months ago.

The Enduring Problem of Journalism: Telling the Truth
Kathy Roberts Forde, University of South Carolina

Why Surreptitiousness Works
Brooke Kroeger, New York University

The Brief Against Deception in Reporting
Tom Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley

Journalism and Deception: The Other Side of a Two-Faced Coin
David Abrahamson, Northwestern University

Student Magazines

A question from Donna Harrington-Lueker about student magazines prompted a number of responses on the Magazine Division listserv. A list of student magazines has been added to this site. If you would like to add a student magazine, please send the link and a brief description to Carol Schwalbe.

Results of the Student Magazine Contest

Winning entries [PDF]

Judge’s comments on winning entries [PDF]

Please submit articles to the Journal of Magazine & New Media Research

The Magazine Division’s scholarly, refereed journal is now entering its 12th year. Its focus is the promotion and publication of research dealing with magazines and new media and the pedagogy related to those two areas. The journal publishes research reports, interpretive articles, opinion pieces, and critical reviews of books and teaching materials that deal with the field of magazines and new media.

If you’re interested in submitting an article, opinion piece, or review, check out the journal guidelines.

Please contribute to the Course Syllabi Sharing Service

Begun in 2002, the Course Syllabi Sharing Service includes copies of syllabi from magazine courses taught around the country, including feature writing and introductory magazine writing, advanced magazine writing and literary journalism, magazine design, magazine editing, magazine management, and online media.

If you’d like to participate in this service, please e-mail Carol Schwalbe a Word document or PDF file of your syllabi along with the name of the course. If your syllabi are already online, you can send me the URL.