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Latest News

• AJHA invites entries for top mass communication history dissertation of 2020
  
• Pamela E. Walk leads new editorial staff of American Journalism
  
• Carolyn Edy recognized for service with President's Award
  
• AJHA announces top papers for 2020
• New officers announced (Oct. 12, 2020)
• Remembering Sidney Kobre.pdf
  
• Amie Marsh Jones Awarded 2020 Blanchard Prize
  
• Scholars Honored for 2020 Books of the Year
  
• Michael Fuhlhage selected for 2020 Teaching Award
• American Journalism names Matt Pressman 2020 Rising Scholar
  
• Stephen Bates receives 2020 Best Article Award
• Ford Risley earns Kobre Award for lifetime achievement
• Reminder! Call for Papers AJHA 2020 Virtual Conference
• Reminder! 2020 Call for McKerns Grant Proposals
• Stephens begins term as president at a crucial time for journalism historians
  
• 2019 McKerns Grant winners announced (Oct. 18, 2019)
• AJHA announced 2019 paper award winners (Oct. 18, 2019)
• New officers announced (Oct. 18, 2019)
• Awards committee bestows rare honor on Danky (Aug. 27, 2019)
• Vergobbi wins 2019 Teaching Award (Aug. 27, 2019)
• AJHA names Augusta University's VanTuyll 2019 Kobre Award winner (Aug. 23, 2019)
• Valdosta State's Aiello garners 2019 Book Award (Aug. 23, 2019)
• Meyers wins 2019 Best Article Award (Aug. 22, 2019) 
• 2019 Rising Scholar Award Winner Announced (Aug. 21, 2019)
• Deadline extended for 2019 Rising Scholar Applications (May 31, 2019)
• 2019 Blanchard Dissertation Prize honorees announced (May 20, 2019)
• President's Feature: Collins’ term as president latest notch in career of service to AJHA (Feb. 21, 2019)
• AJHA hosts annual Southeast Symposium in Panama City Beach (Feb. 21, 2019)
• 2018 McKerns Grant winners announced (Nov. 7, 2018) 
• New officers, board members announced (Oct. 23, 2018)
• AJHA announces 2018 paper award winners (Oct. 19, 2018)
• Mascaro's study of documentary journalists tabbed as Article of Year (Sept. 14, 2018)
• Arizona's Swanberg named 2018 Rising Scholar (Sept. 5. 2018)
• Steven Casey wins 2018 AJHA Book Award (Aug. 28, 2018)
  
• Ohio University's Sweeney wins 2018 Teaching Award (July 28, 2018)
• St. Peter's Palmegiano named 2018 Kobre Award recipient (July 18, 2018) 
• Kathryn McGarr wins 2018 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (May 1, 2018)
• One Month Remains for Convention Submissions (April 27, 2018)
• Call for McKerns Grant Applicants (April 27, 2018)
• Call for 2018 Rising Scholar Applicants (April 20, 2018)
• Veteran researchers earn 2017 McKerns Research Grants (Dec. 1, 2017)
• American Historical Association announces winner of first journalism history book prize (Nov. 15, 2017)
• AJHA welcomes new board members (Nov. 15, 2017)
• AJHA recognizes top papers from annual convention (Nov. 15, 2017)
• American Journalism announces Best Article award winner (Sept. 22, 2017)
• Littlefield named 2017 Rising Scholar (Sept. 22, 2017)
• AJHA announces 2017 Local Journalist Award winner (Sept. 5, 2017)
  
• Roessner named 2017 Outstanding Educator (Aug. 18, 2017)
• Hrach wins 2017 AJHA Book Award (Aug. 11, 2017)
• AJHA names Endres 2017 Kobre Award Winner (July 28, 2017)
• Pressman wins 2017 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (May 18, 2017)
• Call for American Journalism's 2017 Rising Scholar Award (March 9, 2017) 
• Official AJHA statement regarding the Administration of President Donald J. Trump's stances on media (Feb. 2, 2017)
• Vergobbi highlights plan for term as president (Jan. 2, 2017)
  

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