AEJMC Election 2010
Vice President
Candidate | Kyu Ho Youm
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Kyu Ho Youm is professor and the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Before joining UO in 2002 from Arizona State University, he taught at the University of Miami (FL) and Loras College in IA.
As an active AEJMC member of 27 years, Youm first attended the AEJMC meeting in 1983 as a graduate student. Over the years, he has held various elected and appointed positions in AEJMC, including as head and vice head of the Law and Policy Division and as member of the Research Committee and of the Publications Committee. He also served as president of the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication and of the Korean-American Communication Association.
Youm’s research has appeared in major U.S. and international journalism and law journals. Among the journals in which he has published are Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Monographs, George Washington Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, and International & Comparative Law Quarterly (London).
His journal articles have been cited by American and international courts, including the Supreme Court of Great Britain and the High Court of Australia in ruling on freedom of expression. Youm has won a number of top paper awards at the academic conventions of AEJMC, the International Communication Association (ICA), and the National Communication Association (NCA). He has received fellowships from the American Press Institute, the Gannett Foundation, and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He has been selected for research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Since the early 1990s, Youm has served on the editorial boards of a dozen scholarly journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Communication Law & Policy, and Asian Journal of Communication. As a member of the Communication Law Writers Group, he writes a chapter for the media law text Communication and the Law. He is the communication law and policy editor of the International Encyclopedia of Communication. U.S. and international news media have sought Youm’s expertise on communication law issues. He often contributes opinion columns and book reviews to newspapers and trade magazines. He also delivers lectures on press freedom and media law and sits regularly on scholarly and professional panels in the United States and abroad.
A native of South Korea, he has received his bachelor’s degree in Seoul and his MA and PhD from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He holds master of law degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford University.