Awards

AEJMC is proud to recognize outstanding achievements of some of our members at the conference. View the list of AEJMC award recipients expected at the AEJMC 2024 Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Award winners will be added as they are selected. A full list of winners will be announced before the conference via email to all all AEJMC members.

AEJMC Awards

  • Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award)
    - Clifford Christians, Research Professor Emeritus, Illinois
  • AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award)
    - The School of Journalism & Media and Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • AEJMC First Amendment Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award)
    - Errin Haines and Staff, The 19th
  • Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award)
    - Emily Vraga, Minnesota
  • Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development (An AEJMC and ACEJMC Award) Not awarded annually. Next award year is 2025.
  • Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award)
    - Chris Roberts, Alabama
  • Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award)
    - Wayne Wanta, Florida
  • AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award)
    - Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media, Martin Echeverría and Frida V. Rodelo
    - Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism,     Summer Harlow
  • Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award)
    - Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin
  • Tankard Book Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award)
    - Winner: Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century by Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau
    - Finalist: The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession by Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano
    - Finalist: Mr. Associated Press: Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News by Gene Allen
  • Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award (A Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women Award)
    - Kelli Boling, Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education (A Minorities and Communication Division and Commission on the Status of Minorities Award)
    - Dorothy Bland, North Texas
  • Best Practices in Teaching Award (An AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching Award)
    - First Place: Representing Youth Voices, Amplifying Emerging Journalists
    (Sherri Williams, American)
    - Second Place: The Different Perspectives Podcast Assignment
    (Ryan Alessi, James Madison)
    - Third Place: Look Back to Live Ahead
    (Laura Kebede-Twumasi and Taylor Ackerman, Memphis)
    - Honorable Mention: Social Media for Change: Using Social Media to Socialize Key Terms of Community Organizations
    (Madhavi Reddi, York College of Pennsylvania)
    - Honorable Mention: The Case of Right to Try: Activism as Public Engagement
    (April A. Eichmeier, St. Thomas)
  • AEJMC 2024 Senior Scholar (An AEJMC Program)
    - Kalyani Chadha, Northwestern
    - Renita Coleman, Texas at Austin
  • AEJMC 2024 Emerging Scholar (An AEJMC Program)
    - Yee Man Margaret Ng, Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    - Benjamin Toff, Minnesota
  • News Audience Research Paper Award (An AEJMC and News Engagement Day Award)
    - Out with the Old, In with the New: What Young Adults Think of the ‘TikTokification’ of News by Amanda Siew and Daniel Thompson, University of Oklahoma
  • Gene Burd Award for Research in Urban Journalism Studies (An Urban Communication Foundation and AEJMC Award)
    - Gyo Hyun Koo, Howard
  • Gene Burd Award for Excellence in Urban Journalism (An Urban Communication Foundation and AEJMC Award)
    - Suzette Hackney, USA Today
  • 2023 Scripps Howard Fund Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year Award [Awarded in 2024] (A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award)
    - Ann Brill, Kansas
  • 2023 Scripps Howard Fund Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award [Awarded in 2024] (A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award)
    - Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
  • ASJMC Gerald M. Sass Distinguished Service Award (An Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication Award)
    - Irving Washington, Health Misinformation and Trust at KFF
  • Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award (A Kappa Tau Alpha Award)
    - Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism by Summer Harlow, The Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin