Career Development
Committee
The AEJMC Committee on Career Development
The AEJMC Committee on Career Development works to:
- Implement plans for institutionalizing career service sessions at AEJMC conferences
- Foster coordination among AEJMC groups that conduct career development sessions
- Hold its own unique recurring career development events related to careers and
- Support AEJMC initiatives to aid underrepresented groups in journalism and mass communication education.
Information Materials for Career Development
Completing your doctoral studies
- 4 Strategies for Completing Your Dissertation (https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/10/16/advice-successfully-finishing-your-dissertation)
- How to find a postdoc position that’s right for you (https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/04/how-find-postdoc-position-s-right-you)
Fellowships
- Open Society Foundations (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants)
- Various journalism fellowships (https://journalism.berkeley.edu/costs/fellowships/)
Postgraduates
- Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication (https://carta.fiu.edu/kopenhavercenter/)
- Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award (http://www.aejmc.com/home/scholarship/aejmc-award-calls/)
- Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy at Newhouse
(https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/centers/scripps-howard-leadership-academy-at-newhouse/)
Trainings for skills courses
- Investigative Reporters & Editors (https://www.ire.org/)
- Media Innovation Lab (https://www.masscomm.txstate.edu/media-innovation.html)
- Poynter Teachpalooza (https://www.poynter.org/teachapalooza-front-edge-teaching-tools-for-college-educators-2/)
Journalism Affinity Groups
- National Association of Black Journalists (https://nabjonline.org/)
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists (https://nahj.org/)
- Asian American Journalists Association (https://www.aaja.org/)
- Indigenous Journalists Association (https://indigenousjournalists.org/)
- Southeast Asian Journalists Association (https://www.saja.org/)
- Trans Journalists Association (https://transjournalists.org/)
- NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (https://www.nlgja.org/)
- Maynard Institute (https://mije.org/)
Workplace Diversity Training
- Freedom Forum Institute –Workplace Integrity Training/Power Shift Project (https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/initiatives/power-shift-project/)