Enter student work in AEJMC Student Magazine Contest 2010

Start collecting entries for this year’s Student Magazine Contest, which is sponsored by the Magazine Division. The deadline is Wednesday, May 5. Each school may enter up to five entries per category.

To check the categories and rules, download the entry form and see previous winners, hop over to the contest page. Questions? Contact contest co-coordinator Carol Holstead.

Latest issue of the Magazine Division’s journal

Read these featured research article in our Journal of Magazine & New Media Research:

Supplementing the News: An Industry-Based Description of Magazine Supplements
in the Black Press from 1950 to 2000
Yanick Lamb, Howard University

Economic Rationalism: Celebrity Placement In Women’s Magazines
Elizabeth Hendrickson, University of Tennessee

Information Recall of Internet News: Does Design Make a Difference? A Pilot Study
Val Pipps, Heather Walter, Kathleen Endres, and Patrick Tabatcher
University of Akron

Media Representation of Mental Disorders:
A Study of ADD and ADHD Coverage in Magazines from 1985 to 2008
Lindsay Ray and Amanda Hinnant, University of Missouri

Good for Business? Instant Messaging at a Virtual Newsroom
Elizabeth Hendrickson, University of Tennessee

And these reviews:

The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson: A Review
Ellen Gerl, Ohio University

Don’t Judge a Design Book by Its Cover:
A Review of Six Books on Journalism Graphics
Daniel van Benthuysen, Hofstra University

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

The Magazine Division’s scholarly, refereed journal is now entering its 11th 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.

Latest issue of Magazine Matter

Enjoy the latest issue of our newsletter, Magazine Matter. The schedule of Magazine Division panels will help you plan your AEJMC convention activities (page 15). Beverly Merrick, who edited and produced this fine issue, describes her experiences teaching magazine journalism overseas as a professor in the Department of Mass Communication at United Arab Emirates University (page 6). Division head Dane Claussen critiques the review form used to judge AEJMC research (page 2). David Sumner explains why face-to-face interviews are essential (page 4).

Many thanks to newsletter editor Beverly Merrick, who is a former division head and long-time member of the Magazine Division. Please send her short stories about people working in the magazine industry “who have found creative ways to face the sharks in these seas of hard times” (page 3).

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.