The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 conference. Submissions will open Thursday, January 2, and the submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2025. 

This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history. Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and communication history in a welcoming environment.

When: Friday, March 28, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park
Cost: $90 online by March 1 and $45 online afterward (includes lunch)

Research, research-in-progress, panels, and workshop proposals are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale as to why your research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

For more information, check out the full call.

AJHA Member in the Public Eye 

W. Joseph Campbell, a professor emeritus of communication at American University in Washington, D.C., will be speaking about election polling and his book, Lost in a Gallup, Sunday morning at 8 Eastern on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program.

He just published a journalism history piece in the popular press. In "No antidote for bad polls," Campbell recounts the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting for The Conversation. He has also published separate op-eds, two in the Hill and one in The Conversation. 

Campbell just received AJHA's 2024 Kobre Award for lifetime achievement in journalism history.