Dear all:


Happy Sunday! I am following up on George's panel suggestion below. This is a wonderful opportunity. Mas Biswas, MAC vice head and programming chair, has been in touch with AEJMC officials and is working to revise one of our current panels to include a discussion of the Charleston church shooting and media coverage of race. Thanks to all of you for your feedback.


Council of Divisions Head Bob Trumpbour has indicated that one AEJ official "never recalls something so recent ever being woven into an AEJMC panel and having it in the program as such. As a result, in several ways, what you'll be doing will be groundbreaking."


Thanks to AEJ for being willing to rework program copy so close to the deadline and many thanks to Mas for leading the effort in getting additional panelists and revising program information and to George for the idea.


We are looking forward to an excellent scholarly discussion of the topic and a great conference overall. 


Sincerely,
Frances

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Frances Ward-Johnson, Ph.D., APR
Associate Professor and Faculty Fellow for Leadership
Head, Minorities and Communication Division, AEJMC
School of Communications, Elon University
2850 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
PH: 336-278-5738
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: AEJMC Panel/Programming on Charleston, Coverage of Race
 

I'm still on the AEJMC board and am happy to ask AEJMC executive director Jennifer McGill  and AEJMC president Elizabeth Toth about this important panel idea if you'd like.  Just let me know.


Paula Poindexter


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Paula M. Poindexter, Ph.D.
School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
Chair, National News Engagement Day
AEJMC Past President
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:32 AM
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Most likely the late adds will have to be approved at the board level vs.  an individual division trying to do do this.    I say have someone talk to Jennifer McGill about this proposal. 

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On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:15 AM, LaPoe, Victoria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

AEJ has put together late added Hot Topic panels in the past. Couldn't this be a Hot Topic panel?

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On Jun 24, 2015, at 5:32 PM, George Daniels <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

AEJMC Colleagues,

Apologies for the double-postings for those of you on both the MAC and CSM listserv.  Wanted to pitch some type of programming during our San Francisco Conference about the events in Charleston and even more important, our media's coverage of race and the ethical issues involved.

Today our NABJ President Bob Butler issued a statement acknowledging the "long-needed national dialogue" about race, but took issue with Don Lemon's handling of the issues regarding the use of the so-called n-word and the Confederate flag. 

Here's a link to Bob Butler's statement...
In the past, AEJMC Programmers have allowed for "late-breaking" or HOT TOPICS panels to be added to the program when major issues arise that have an impact on what we're teaching in the classroom and the contributions that we as mass media scholars can make.   As final revisions are made to the San Francisco Program,  perhaps there' s a window for a session on this topic?   

I wanted to gauge interest among those in MAC and CSM and perhaps explore the possibility of offering some programming for our upcoming conference on this issue.  This certainly touches our PF&R interests as well as what we do as teachers and researchers. 

Thoughts?

Perhaps our MAC and CSM Leadership could weigh in and suggest how we might proceed.

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George L. Daniels, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean
College of Communication and Information Sciences
The University of Alabama
Box 870172
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0172