The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference

This year, the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference will conclude with an informal networking session. Want to find a writing and research partner? Need a mentor in your field? Someone to contribute a chapter to your new edited volume? Want to sell your book? Recruit a new colleague? This could be your opportunity to connect with some of the best minds in journalism and communication history.

All conference attendees are welcome to join us for the networking session, where we will enjoy the coffee and cookies while listening to participants discuss their research interests.

Those who would like to talk about their research and find people who share their interests should send an email to thorne@missouriwestern.edu. We’ll ask you to submit a single PowerPoint slide to share.

We hope everyone will join us for this session.

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003

Sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division
Conference Coordinators:
Kevin Lerner (logistics & technology), Marist College, Kevin.Lerner@Marist.edu
Ann Thorne (program planner), Missouri Western State University, thorne@missouriwestern.edu

Follow hashtag #JJCHC on Twitter throughout the day.

Special thanks to Perri Klass, Jay Rosen, Brooke Kroeger and the rest of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute faculty and staff for welcoming us today. Also thanks to Lisa Burns, Elliot King and others who helped make this conference possible.

8:30 – 8:50 am Registration and continental breakfast: Conference Center.

Fee: $50, cash or checks only. Make checks payable to Loyola University (with “Journalism Conference” in memo)

8:50 – 9:00 am Opening remarks

Ann Thorne (Missouri Western State University) & Kevin Lerner (Marist College)

9:05 – 10:10 am Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables 1, 2 and 3

Room 652 Covering International News

Moderator: Jane Chapman (University of Lincoln)

• “This is Pauline Frederick at the United Nations”: How Viewers Saw One Journalist as the Face of International News, Marilyn Greenwald (Ohio University)
• John W. White’s Efforts to Change the U.S. Policy toward Argentina: An Analysis of Depiction of Fascism Penetration in Argentina in the New York Times Newspaper during the 1930s and 1940s, Mehrnaz Rahimi (Texas Tech University) and Kevin Stoker (Texas Tech University)
• The Baathist Plan to Develop the Iraqi News Agency (INA): The Evolution Phase of a Propaganda Machine, Mohammed H. Al-Azdee (University of Bridgeport)

Room 653 From the Era of the Cold War to the Mid-Sixties

Moderator: Tom Schwartz (Vanderbilt University)

• Media Representations of Lolita Lebron: Terrorist or Femme Fatale, Syd G. Schulz (Middlebury College)
• Message to India: Cold War Propaganda and Journalism Aid in the “World’s Biggest Democracy,” 1955 – 1965, John Jenks (Dominican University)
• 1963: A Transformational Moment for American Journalism, Dale Cressman (Brigham Young University)

Room 654 Revising Social History

Moderator: Harvey Strum (Sage College)

• Operator Please? Rewriting the Social History of the Telephone Business in the United States in its Formative Era, Richard R. John (Columbia University)
• Tooth Fairy’s Loss, Nuclear Information Committee’s Gain, 1958-63, Ellen J. Gerl (Ohio University)
• Official Reporting of an Evolving American Family, Betty H. Winfield (University of Missouri) and Lola Arellano Weddleton (University of Missouri)

10:15 – 11:20 am Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables 4, 5 and 6

Room 652 Histories of Identity Construction in Journalism

Moderator: Nicholas Gilewicz (University of Pennsylvania)

• Journalism without Democracy: A Historical Look at Arab News Media and Political Identities, Omar Al- Ghazzi (University of Pennsylvania)
• “Impudent Snobs”: Journalistic Identity and the Rise of “Middle America,” 1968-1970, Christopher Cimaglio (University of Pennsylvania)
• Expulsion: The Recent History of Journalistic Plagiarism and Fabrication, Nicholas Gilewicz (University of Pennsylvania)
• Outgroup Frames: The Discursive Exclusion of the Disadvantaged from Political Journalism, Lori Young (University of Pennsylvania)
• National Memory and Global Sports Spectacles: Media Constructions of National Pride in the 2006 World Cup, Kate Zambon (University of Pennsylvania)

Room 653 Issues of Race and Ethnicity

Moderator: Nancy Roberts (SUNY Albany)

• Reproducing Racism: Newspapers, Civil Rights, and Journalism Wrongs, Ronald Smith (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Racism, Sexism, Elitism and Journalism: The First A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention and the Explosion of Newsroom Ferment in 1972, Kevin Lerner (Marist College)
• We Choose to be Here: The North Carolina Latino Immigrant Press in the Early 2000s, Michel Fuhlhage (Auburn University)

Room 654 Journalism and Freedom at the Turn of the 20th Century

Moderator: Jack Breslin (Iona College)

• “The Best in the Business”: James O’Shaughnessy, Chicago Journalist and American Adman, Colum Kenny (Dublin City University)
• The Lynching of George Smith or How Michel Foucault Meets Rough Justice and Yellow Journalism on the American Great Plains, Brian Gabrial (Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec)
• The Last Bastion of Academic Free-dom: Cooper Union and the History and Future of Higher Education, Philip Kay (Columbia University)

 11:25 – 12:30 pm Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables 7, 8 and 9

Room 652 Abolition and the Civil War Era

Moderator: Mary Ellen Zuckerman

• Andrew Johnson and the Battle for the 14th Amendment, Elliot King (Loyola University Maryland)
• Communicating Change: The Discourse of Abolition in Theodore Dwight Weld’s “American Slavery As It Is,” Paula Hunt (University of Missouri)
• The News and Oratory of Frederick Douglass in a Southern-Leaning State: Indiana from 1843 to 1892, Julie A. Goldsmith (Indiana University School of Liberal Arts-Indianapolis)

Room 653 Examining the Role of Magazines

Moderator: Eugenia Palmegiano (St. Peter’s College)

• From Golden to Glitter: The Fragmentation of U.S. Photojournalism, Judy Polumbaum (University of Iowa)
• Portrayal of a Man and His Magic: The Image of Walt Disney in Magazines from 1934 – 1969, Andi Stein (California State University-Fullerton)
• Sunday Newspaper Magazines: An Opportunity for Rebirth, Jeff Lemberg (Curry College)

Room 654 Alternatives to Traditional Journalism

Moderator: Janis Chakars (Indiana University School of Liberal Arts-Indianapolis)

• The Delphian Society: A Historical and Cultural Analysis of a Primer for Middle Class Women’s Education, Sheila Webb (Western Washington University)
• The Seafarer as Journalist: Captain Nichols and The Ocean Chronicle, Jennifer E. Moore (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
• Zombiedom’s William Buehler Seabrook: A Case for Resurrecting Seabrook as a Lost Generation Literary Journalist, Rebecca A. Frierson (University of South Carolina-Columbia)

12:30 – 1:40 pm Lunch

Luncheon Speaker: Jay Rosen, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University

1:45 pm – 2:50 pm Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables 10, 11 and 12

Room 652 The Black Press

Moderator: Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac University)

• Researching the Black Press in the Age of Social Media, Kim T. Gallon (Muhlenberg College)
• Reagan or Carter? Wrong Questions for Blacks: Race and 1980s Presidential Politics in the Black and
• Liberal Press, Justin Hudson (University of Maryland-College Park)
• Book of the Revolution”: Hoyt W. Fuller, the Black Arts Movement and Black World Magazine, 1970- 1973, Nathaniel Frederick II (Winthrop University)

Room 653 Media Ethics and Law

Moderator: Kate Dunsmore (Fairleigh Dickinson University-College at Florham)

• Taming Journalism? Ethics and Editors in Antebellum America, Frank E. Fee (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
• “Printers to the Publick”: Reassessing Press Freedom and Press Control in Early Canada, 1752-1800, Dean Jobb (University of King’s College)
• The State v. Perry: A South Carolina Newspaper’s Coverage of Its Leading Civil Rights Lawyer, Christopher G. Frear (University of South Carolina-Columbia)
• “The Story of a College Football Fix” Fifty Years Later: A Re-evaluation of Butts v. Curtis Publishing Company, David Sumner (Ball State University)

Room 654 Media Agenda and Change

Moderator: Lisa Luedeman (Gardner-Webb University)

• Selling a Double Victory: How the Pittsburgh Courier Campaigned to Change America and the World, Pamela E. Walck (Ohio University)
• Setting the Stage for the “Institutional Vice Presidency”: Coverage of Gerald Ford by Marjorie Hunter of the New York Times, Harlen Makemson (Elon University)
• Taking Action on Agent Orange: The New Yorker’s Role in Restricting the Use of a Toxic Chemical, Miles Maguire (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
• The Least Anxious Person in a Boat: Journalists Perform a Status Degradation Ceremony as They Mourn Walter Cronkite, Ron Bishop (Drexel University)

2:55 pm to 4:00 pm Networking Session: Find people who share your interests.

THE JOINT JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION HISTORY CONFERENCE
(The American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division joint spring meeting)

When: SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013
Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University,
20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003 (website:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/
)
Cost: $50 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)

You are invited to submit a 500-600 word proposal for completed
papers, research in progress or panel discussions for presentation at
the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference—the American
Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division joint
spring meeting. Innovative research and ideas from all areas of
journalism and communication history and from all time periods are
welcome. Scholars from all academic disciplines and stages of their
academic careers are encouraged to participate. 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. Your
proposal should include a brief abstract detailing your presentation
topic as well as a compelling rationale why the research is of
interest to an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

All submissions will be uploaded to the Media History Exchange, an
archive and social network funded by the National Endowment of the
Humanities and administered by Elliot King (Loyola University
Maryland), the long-time organizer of this conference.

To join the Media History Exchange (membership is free), go to

http://www.mediahistoryexchange.org
and request membership. Once you
have joined, follow the step-by-step instructions describing how to
upload an abstract to a specific conference. Please follow the
corrections carefully. If you leave out a step, it will not work. If
you have any questions or run into any problems, contact Ann Thorne,
thorne@missouriwestern.edu. Upload
all submissions (electronic submission only) by January 6th, 2013, to
the Media History Exchange,
http://www.mediahistoryexchange.org
.

Networking Session: This year we will offer a networking session with
coffee and cookies. Attendees will be invited to make a brief,
two-slide PowerPoint presentation about their research interests.
Following the presentation, there will be time for everyone to
exchange ideas. For more information, contact Ann Thorne,
thorne@missouriwestern.edu.

Authors: If you published a book in the past year (2012) or have a
book coming out in the spring of 2013 and would like to talk about
your book at the conference, please contact conference co-coordinator
Ann Thorne, thorne@missouriwestern.edu, with a brief statement about your book. Also, if you want to serve as a submission reviewer or panel
moderator, please contact Ann Thorne, thorne@missouriwestern.edu.

Acceptance Notification Date: February 4th, 2013

Any questions? Contact conference co-coordinators Ann Thorne
(programming or submission questions, thorne@missouriwestern.edu) or Kevin Lerner (logistical or travel questions,
kevin.lerner@marist.edu).

The program from the 2012 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference is nearly finalized. We’re expecting over 100 participants this year, including our panelists, book presenters, and our keynote speaker Blanche Wiesen Cook, who will be speaking on the importance of freedom of information.

The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference

Draft Program: March 10, 2012

Sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association

and the AEJMC History Division

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019

 Follow hashtag #JJCHC on Twitter throughout the day. Tweets will be shown on the screen in the John Jay Conference Center.

Conference Coordinators:

Kevin Lerner (program planner), Marist College, Kevin.Lerner@Marist.edu

Lisa Burns (logistics & technology), Quinnipiac University, Lisa.Burns@Quinnipiac.edu

8:30 – 8:50 am Registration and continental breakfast: Conference Center.

Fee: $50, cash or checks only. Make checks payable to Loyola University (with Journalism Conference in memo)

8:50 – 9:00 am Opening Remarks

Kevin Lerner (Marist College) & Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac University)

9:05 – 10:10 am Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables—One floor above registration

Room 01.124 Historicizing Freedom of the Press: Exploring Narratives of the ‘Fourth Estate’

Moderator: John Steel (University of Sheffield)

• Panelists: Jesse Hearns–Branaman (University of Leeds)
• Elliot King (Loyola University, Maryland)
• John Nerone (University of Illinois)
• Jameel Yusha’u (University of Northumbria)

Room 01.125 Presidents, Places and Press

Moderator: Ann Thorne (Missouri Western State University)

• A Tale of Two Presidents and One City, Joe Marren (SUNY College at Buffalo)
• The Men Who Came to Dinner: How William Allen White Orchestrated Herbert Hoover’s Introduction to the Men of the Kansas Press, Sally Renaud (Eastern Illinois University)
• Bill Clinton on Arsenio Hall: A Musical Performance that Ushered in a New Dynamic Between Politicians and the Press, Richard Lee (St. Bonaventure University) and Anne Lee (St. Bonaventure University)
• Reclaiming a Fallen Empire: Myth and Memory in the Battle over Detroit’s Ruins, Kavita I. Nayar (Temple University)

Room 01.129 European Perspectives and U.S. Foreign Correspondents

Moderator: Harvey Strum (Sage College of Albany)

• Covering the Cold War: From 1959 Havana to 1991 Moscow, U.S. Foreign Correspondents Engage the World, Giovanna Dell’Orto (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities)
• Vladimir Lenin and the Intellectual History of Media and Politics, Janis Chakars, (Indiana University–Bloomington)
• Topolino Giornalista: A Crusading Journalist in Mussolini’s Italy?, Eric B. Easton (University of Baltimore)
• In Democracy as in Dictatorship: Government Pressures on the Spanish Private News Agency Europa Press, Carlos Barrera (Universidad de Navarra) and José Apezarena (Universidad de Navarra)

10:15 – 11:20 am Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables

Room 01.124 Historiography, Research Tools and Issues of Journalistic Representation

Moderator: Jane Chapman (University of Lincoln)

• Consuming Online Historical Journalism Resources, Michelle Harper (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)
• What Popular Culture Teaches Us About Journalism History, Matthew C. Ehrlich (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
• The Self-Fashioning of Youth: Journalism’s Crisis of Representation, Jeanette McVicker (SUNY at Fredonia)
• A Brief History of the History of Objectivity, Mark Brewin (University of Tulsa)

Room 01.125 Editors, Publishers and Values

Moderator: Nancy Roberts (SUNY Albany)

•  In America, but not of it: Newspaper Coverage of the First Catholic Church in New York, 1780–1790, Brian Carroll (Berry College)
• Julius Chambers and the Case of the “Faking” Journalist, Andie Tucher (Columbia University)
• Disrupting the News: How Harvard Business School and Distance Learning Influenced Participatory Journalism, Dale Cressman (Brigham Young University)
• The Reiman Publications—Expressions of Core Values in the Media: A Historical and Cultural Analysis of a Unique Magazine Model, Sheila Webb (Western Washington University)

Room 01.129 Advertising and Consumption in Post–WWII American Print

Moderator: Andrew Salvati (Rutgers University)

• From Mad Men to Mad Men: Development of Semiotic-Based Advertising, Frank Bridges (Rutgers University)
• Filling in the Gap: Scrapbooks as Gendered Consumption in the “Golden Age,” Katie McCollough (Rutgers University)
•  Risk as Stylized Propaganda in Cold War America, Aaron Trammell (Rutgers University)
• The Computer Society Moves In: An Analysis of Time Magazine’s Coverage of the PC, 1978 & 1983, Jonathan Bullinger (Rutgers University)

11:25 – 12:30 pm Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables

Room 01.119 Coverage of Asia and Asian-Americans

Moderator: Richard Lee (Saint Bonaventure University)

• Vegetarians Kill Christians: A Frame Analysis of the Huashan Massacre, Janet Rice McCoy (Morehead State University) and Hailley White (Morehead State University)
• A Qualitative Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Academic Publications (1912–1949), Mu Lin (Georgian Court University)
• “The Proverbial Newspaperman’s Rainbow”: How the Casa Grande Dispatch Covered the Coming of the Gila River Internment Camp, Ronald Bishop (Drexel University), Alissa Falcone (Drexel University) and Renee Daggett (Drexel University)
• Transformation of Collective Memory: From a Yanggongju to an American Dreamer, Ju Oak Kim (Temple University)

Room 01.124 Old Habits in New Times: Themes in 20th Century Journalism and Media

• Moderator: Ira Chinoy (University of Maryland)
• Radio Women in “Queer” Jobs: The Portrayal of Women in Broadcasting Magazine, 1931–1939,’ Stine Eckert (University of Maryland)
• When Radio Was New: Fan Magazines in the 1930s, the Active Audience, and the Evolution of National Culture, Yacong Yuan (University of Maryland)
• Viewtron and the Digital Delivery of News in the 1980s: A Fallacy of Failure? Jacqueline Incollingo (University of Maryland)
• “I’m Proud to Be a Part of this Community”: A Study of Audience Engagement with news in the Case of Korean-Americans and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Soo-Kwang Oh (University of Maryland)
• Business as Usual: When Objectivity Stops Making Sense, a Case Study of Forecasting and Retrospectives in Financial News before and after the Crash of 1987, Michael Koliska (University of Maryland)

Room 01.125 September 11 and After: Collective and Historical Memory

Moderator: Janis Chakars (Indiana University)

• “Nine Innings” and 9/11, Todd M. Sodano (St. John Fisher College)
• Fencing History: The Methods and Motives that Drive Memory Socialization after Trauma, Emil Steiner (Temple University)
• Collective Memory of the War in Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003–2008, Lisa C. Luedeman (Gardner-Webb University)
• The Most Dangerous Men in the World: Understanding Assange through the Memory of Ellsberg, Andrew J. Salvati (Rutgers University)

12:30 – 1:40 pm Lunch—Conference Center

Luncheon Speaker: Blanche Wiesen Cook (John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

Freedom of Information is Not Treason: An Historical Journey from the Declassified Eisenhower to WikiLeaks

1:45-2:35 Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables

Room 1.119 Science and Science Fiction in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Moderator: Richard A. Fine (Virginia Commonwealth University)

• Film and Nuclear Alarmism in the 1950s and 1960s, Anmol Kalsi (University of South Carolina–Columbia)
• Applying the “Hierarchy of Influences” Model to Space Exploration and the Three Television Networks: 1968–1972, Kathy Keltner-Previs (Eastern Kentucky University)
• Science Fiction and the ARPANet, Christopher Leslie (Polytechnic Institute of New York University)

Room 1.124 From Antebellum to Civil War

Moderator: Giovanna Dell’Orto (University of Minnesota)

• Swill Milk Pictured as a Public Health Issue in Late Antebellum New York, Jennifer E. Moore (University of Minnesota)
• The Burden of Slavery in America and “Incendiary Publications”: From Unanimity to Animus, the Southern Editorial Fight to Silence the Media about Slavery, Brian Gabrial (Concordia University)
• Newspapers and the “Other”: Media Framing of the 1863 New York Draft Riots, Timothy L. Moran (Wayne State University)

Room 1.125 Protest and Activism in the ’60s and ’70s

Moderator: Theresa Lynch (University of New Hampshire)

• The History of Rights Prohibited to Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, A. Jay Wagner (Indiana University–Bloomington)
• Journalistic Permaculture: Provisional Notes Toward a History of The Fifth Estate, An “Anti-Authoritarian Magazine of Ideas and Action,” Carleton S. Gholz (Northeastern University)
• Lasting Impressions: Sponsorship and Influence on Grassroots, Activist Newspapers from the 1970s, Kristin L. Gustafson (University of Washington–Bothell Campus)

Room 1.129 Publications on the Left

Moderator: Jean Palmegiano (Saint Peter’s College)

• Negley Cochran: The Life of a Progressive Editor, Thomas A. Schwartz (The Ohio State University)
•  J.B.S. Hardman and the Struggle for Democratic Labor Journalism, Brian Dolber (SUNY College at Oneonta)
• PM: A Failed Experiment in Ad-Free Newspapering, Chris Daly (Boston University)

2:40–3:45 pm Scholar-to-Scholar Roundtables

Room 1.119 Race Riots and Civil Rights

Moderator: Brian Dolber (SUNY College at Oneonta)

• Oswald Garrison Villard, The New York Post and the Founding of the NAACP, Elliot King (Loyola University of Maryland)
• My Words, My Voice and My Place in the World: African American Female Columnists Discuss Transnationalism and Diaspora Politics, 1940–1945, Caryl Cooper (University of Alabama)
• The Ole Miss Integration Crisis: Three Women on the Front Line, Kathleen Woodruff Wickham (University of Mississippi)
• A Little-Known Riot Portrayed Through Photographs, Stephanie Morrow (Temple University)
• Achieving Our Country: The Kennedys, James Baldwin and The Fire Next Time, Kathy Roberts Forde (University of South Carolina–Columbia)

Room 1.124 Media of Intentional Influence: Public Relations, Advertising and Propaganda

Moderator: Cynthia Meyers (College of Mount St. Vincent)

•  The Ad Agency and Ad Content in the 1840s, Tim P. Vos (University of Missouri) and You Li (University of Missouri)
•  World War I Magazine Cover Illustrations—Artistry and Propaganda, June S. Knopf (Independent Scholar)
•  The “Science of Ballyhoo” or Corporate Savior? Big Business, the Great Depression and Public Relations, Vanessa Murphree (University of South Alabama)
•  Behind the Mirror: Focus Groups and What They Reveal, Liza Featherstone (Columbia University)

Room 1.125 Radio and Television Histories

Moderator: John Friedman (SUNY Old Westbury)

• Listening to the Local: The Aims and Teaching Strategies of Local Educational Radio Initiatives, Brian C. Gregory (Teachers College at Columbia University)
• Dueling Discourses: What the Mainstream Press and the Ethnic Press Said About “Amos ’n’ Andy,” Donna L. Halper (Lesley University)
• CBS and the Ascendancy of Radio News in Wartime, 1942–1943, Richard Fine (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Wisdom, and the Lack Thereof: NBC’s Forgotten Documentary Series, James M. Baxter (University of Maryland)
• From Rip-and-Read to Search-and-Print: The Impact of Technology on the Radio and Television Newsroom, Kenneth J. Levine (University of Tennessee)

3:50 – 5:00 pm “Meet the Authors” Roundtable—Conference Center

Authors with recent or forthcoming books will briefly describe their work. Members of the audience will then be invited to tout their own books, their friends’ books or just books that they like. Initial presenters:

• Perceptions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals: A Bibliography, E. M. Palmegiano (Saint Peter’s College)
• Key Readings in Journalism, Jane Chapman (University of Lincoln) and Elliot King (Loyola University of Maryland)
• Why We Love Disney: The Power of the Disney Brand, Andi Stein (California State University–Fullerton)
• Journalism and Free Speech, John Steel (University of Sheffield)
• Free Stylin’: How Hip Hop Changed the Fashion Industry, Elena Romero (Fashion Institute of Technology)
• Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, Persistence, Maurine Beasley (University of Maryland)
• The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s–1914: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism, Joel H. Wiener (City University of New York)
• Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, Matthew C. Ehrlich (University of Illinois)

A draft has been released of the program for the 2012 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, to be held on Saturday March 10, 2012 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. You can download the draft as a pdf file here: 2012 JJCHC Program DRAFT A.

Download these instructions as a printable pdf file: JJCHC 12 Conference Logistics

Date & Time

Saturday, March 10^th, 8:30 am to 5 pm

Conference Location

John Jay College

Official address:  899 Tenth Avenue New York, NY, 10019 (intersection of 10^th Ave. and West 59^th Street between West 58^th & West 59^th)

Closest subway stop: 59^th Street and Columbus Circle (A, B, C, D, 1 lines)

Parking Garage: On West 59^th between 10^th & 11^th Avenues, across the street from John Jay’s West 59^th entrance.

There are two main entrances you can use:

• The closest to the conference registration area is on West 59^th Street between 10^th & 11^th Avenues, which leads into John Jay’s “new” building and the conference center.  After passing through security, you’ll be able to see the Registration area, which will sit off to the far left in the atrium area.  This is the suggested entrance on the day of the conference.
• The main entrance to John Jay is at 899 Tenth Avenue between West 58^th & West 59^th Avenues (across from Roosevelt Hospital).  If you use this entrance, you will proceed through security and down an escalator.  Then, walk straight ahead through the main building and into the new building (they are connected).  You’ll pass through a red-painted lobby with 4 elevators before entering the atrium of the new building.  The Registration area will be to your left as soon as you enter the atrium.
• Note: The security desk will have a list of conference participants.  Please sign in when you arrive.

Registration

The Registration desk, located in the atrium near the conference center, will open at 8:30 am.  The cost is $50 (includes breakfast and continental lunch), payable by cash or check.  Checks should be made payable to Loyola University (include “Journalism Conference” in the memo).

Presentation Technology

If you plan to use Powerpoint or other visuals, you’ll need to put those files on a USB/flash drive.  There are computers in all of the classrooms, but there are no laptop connection cords, so you will not be able to plug in your personal laptop.  There will be Wi-fi available.  Log-in information will be provided at the conference.

Nearby Hotels (Compiled from Hotels.com)

**Note: The conference does not have a deal with any particular hotel and none of the locations listed below are officially endorsed by the conference organizers. They are simply the hotels closest to the location. But keep in mind that, thanks to John Jay’s proximity to the 59^th Street & Columbus Circle subway station, you can stay almost anywhere in Manhattan.

• Holiday Inn New York City – Midtown – 57^th Street      (0.14 miles to John Jay – about 2 blocks)
• 440 W 57^th Street, New York, NY 10019
• Hudson, A Morgan’s Original Hotel                              (0.24 miles to John Jay)
• 356 W 58^th Street, New York, NY 10019
• The Modern                                                                 (0.47 miles to John Jay)
• 243 W 55^th Street, New York, NY 10019
• 6 Columbus – A Thompson Hotel                                (0.5 miles to John Jay)
• 6 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019

If you have any questions about conference logistics, please contact Lisa Burns (Lisa.Burns@quinnipiac.edu).