Congratulations to this year's Blanchard Dissertation Prize Winner Claire Rounkles and honorable mention winners Meshari Thamer Alotaibi and John-Erik Koslosky! Learn more about their dissertations here: tinyurl.com/ypkzp4d7

The 2026 AJHA Paper, Panel and RIP call is here! For more details on submitting your work for the 45th annual convention in Greenville, South Carolina, visit ajha.wildapricot.org/call_for_pap.... The deadline for all submissions is June 15, 2026 11:59 p.m. CST!

The deadline for this year's Blanchard Dissertation Prize has been extended to March 1. If you know anyone who might be interested, please encourage them to apply!

This weekend is AJHA's Southeast Symposium! Read more about the event here: ajha.wildapricot.org/Intelligence...

Registration for this year's Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference at Columbia University is open! Registration is free for all graduate students. The conference will be held March 27 from 9-5 a.m. To sign up, visit ajha.wildapricot.org/event-6518450

To close out #AJHA2025, join us at Gaucho Beach for the Gala Dinner at 6 p.m. Get ready for great views, Argentinian- and Californian-inspired flavors, local craft brews and sangria!

Ahead of tonight's gala dinner, we wanted to share again some info on transportation to and from the event. Directions for getting to the ship can be found in your convention program, and you can use the chart below to decide which transportation option to the ship works best for you!

It's the final day of #AJHA2025. Visit one of the research in progress sessions, hear about the work of AJHA leadership over the past year during the General Business Meeting, spend the afternoon at paper and panel sessions, and wrap up the convention during the Gala Dinner!

The annual Donna Allen Luncheon celebrates contributions of women to the field of journalism. This year's honored guest and featured speaker is Nancy Rivera Brooks, former deputy business editor with the Los Angeles Times. Join us in honoring Nancy in International 3 on the 2nd floor at noon.

🚢 All aboard for AJHA's choose-your-own-adventure historical tour of the Queen Mary! Directions for getting to the ship can be found in your convention program, and you can use the chart below to decide which transportation option to the ship works best for you.

Another full day for #AJHA2025. Start your day with breakfast and two research sessions, followed by the Donna Allen Luncheon, a panel featuring this year's Blanchard Dissertation Award finalists, and our very own tour of the Queen Mary! 🚢

Meet us at the pool for our Local Journalist Award Reception honoring NBC4 “Today in LA” co-anchor Lynette Romero and former editor of Long Beach’s Grunion Gazette Harry Saltzgaver!

Next up: Celebrating our Kobre and National Award for Excellence in Teaching award winners during the luncheon in International 3!

Good morning, #AJHA2025! Between breakfast at 7:30 and our Local Journalist Award Reception at 6:30 tonight, there's a packed schedule of paper presentations, panel sessions, and the Award Luncheon.

We'll see you soon, journalism historians! Check-in at the Hilton Long Beach starts and 4 p.m.🌴 📰 🌊

Packing for #AJHA2025? The forecast calls for sun and 70s in Long Beach!🌤️ 🕶️ 🏖️

Three days until #AJHA2025! ✈️ Here's some tips on navigating from one of the three area airports to our convention hotel in Long Beach:

Four days until #AJHA2025! Hear about the four dissertations conducted by this year's Blanchard Dissertation Prize winner and runners up during their panel Friday morning.

AJHA gives out five top paper awards each year. Come learn more about these scholars' award-winning research in just five days! #AJHA2025

With only six days to go until #AJHA2025, we're celebrating Gwyneth Mellinger, Ira Chinoy, Jeremiah Favara, Larry Heinzerling, Randy Herschaft and Ann Cooper--the six authors of the books receiving this year's Book Award and honorable mentions. Catch them at their Saturday panel!

Worth another trip into our own photo archive to celebrate being just seven days away from #AJHA2025! 🌴 📰 📚 🌊

Place your bids! The AJHA auction supporting the Michael S. Sweeney Graduate Student Travel Fund is open now through Sept. 28. givebutter.com/c/AJHA2025

Our convention hotel, the Hilton Long Beach, has a pool, a fitness center… and a tradition of sending guests home with a rubber duck! 🦆 #AJHA2025

A Throwback Thursday with photos from conventions past to celebrate being just two weeks away from #AJHA2025! 🌴 📰 📚 🌊

Congrats to Keith Greenwood, winner of the AJHA 2025 National Award for Excellence in Teaching!

Kudos to Suzannah Evans Comfort of Indiana University, author of “Before the Environment Was News: Outdoor Writers and the Boundaries of Journalism” and the winner of this year's Best Article Award presented by American Journalism! More here: tinyurl.com/mrysc9px

Congratulations to Gwyneth Mellinger, author of "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow," and winner of AJHA's Book Award this year! More about her book and our runners up here: tinyurl.com/ywuvpabh

Congratulations to to the winner of this year's American Journalism Rising Scholar award, Natascha Toft Roelsgaard! tinyurl.com/j8f4vz3n

Join us in celebrating Patrick Cox, Ph.D., who has been named the 2025 recipient of the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement--AJHA’s highest honor. Patrick will receive the Kobre Award during AJHA's annual convention in Long Beach, California this fall. tinyurl.com/mrxzn4v6

Congrats to Robin Sundaramoorthy, winner of the 2025 Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize, and runners-up Holly Swenson, Robert O'Sullivan, and Karlin Andersen Tuttle. You can hear more about each of their studies during a panel at #AJHA2025 and here: tinyurl.com/deta9c75

The deadline for AJHA's annual paper, panel, and research-in-progress competition has been extended to Wednesday, June 4, 8:00 p.m. EST. For more details, visit the AJHA website: ajha.wildapricot.org/call_for_pap...

Congrats to the five media historians receiving funding to support their diversity and media history research! The microgrants are sponsored by the AEJMC's History Division and AJHA as part of a collaborative effort to stimulate more diversity research in Journalism History and American Journalism.

Join us for the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference--co-sponsored by AJHA and AEJMC's History Division! The one-day conference at the University of Maryland is being held on March 28. More info and registration can be found here:

AJHA has signed onto the AHA-OAH statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.”