Research panel to showcase top college media research

AEJMC convention set for Toronto

CMA scholars will present original research pertaining to college media at the 2019 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in Toronto, Canada.

Kirstie Hettinga, Assistant Professor of Communication at California Lutheran University, and Alyssa Appelman, Assistant Professor of Communication at Northern Kentucky University, will present “ERRORS, REQUESTS, APOLOGIES: A case study of 50 years of corrections in a college newspaper.”

Robert Bergland, Professor of Journalism at Missouri Western State University, will present “Social Media Use of Award-Winning College Yearbooks.”

The Council of Affiliates and College Media Association sponsor this annual panel to showcase some of the top peer-reviewed scholarship on the topic. The panel will be moderated by CMA Research Chair Elizabeth R. Smith on Saturday, August 10 from 11 to 12:30 p.m.