Affiliates, September 1986

The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is an organization of more than 300 journalism historians, primarily in the United States. The divi­sion seeks to promote scholarship and teaching in journalism/mass communi­cation history. This is understood to include not just the history of people and institutions of journalism, but also the various roles and functions of jour­nalism in society, and the impact of society on journalism. The Division is also committed to making journalists more sensitive to the idea and impor­tance of history. The head of the divi­sion for 1986-87 is Jean L. Folkerts of Mount Vernon College.

Each summer the Division devotes AEJMC convention sessions to research, service, and teaching. Research papers are selected on the basis of competitive evaluation. This summer, nineteen out of forty-five papers were accepted. The division also holds several regional meetings each spring.

The author of the outstanding stu­dent paper each year receives the $200 Warren Price Award. This year the award was given to Myron K. Jordan, a doctoral student at the University of Washington, for his study of the Spokane Press, an E. W. Scripps newspaper.

Presented at the convention for the second time was the Cathy Covert Award for the outstanding published essay contributing to knowledge in the history of mass communication. The $500 prize was awarded to James L. Baughman of the University of Wiscon­sin for “Television in the Golden Age: An Entrepreneurial Experiment,” pub­lished in The Historian. Division Head-elect Jeffery A. Smith won the AEJMC award for the best mass communica­tions dissertation completed in 1984/5. His work, “Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Jour­nalism,” was completed under Baugh­man’s direction at the University of Wis­consin.

For further information, contact Jef­fery Smith, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.