AAPOR newsletter, information for research survey investigators and survey design, institutional review board guidelines, upcoming conferences, and information on how to become a member of AAPOR.
"The American Communication Association (ACA) is a not-for-profit organization, created to enhance and promote the academic and professional study, research, knowledge, criticism, teaching, exchange, and application of the basic principles of human communication."
American Society of Journalists and Authors helps professional freelance writers advance their writing careers.
"With offices in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the Policy Center conducts and disseminates research, hosts lectures and conferences and convenes expert panels to address important questions about the intersection of media, communication and public policy. The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania performs research in the fields of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication and adolescent risk. The Policy Center's goal is to provide expert analysis that brings these issues into focus. The Center builds upon the scholarship produced by the Annenberg School for Communication." Surveys, digests of research and data sets are available from The Center library hosted at this site. See also the Annenberg School for Communication Library for specific communication research guides and databases. http://www.library.upenn.edu/annenberg/
A wide variety of communication associations and organizations with annotated descriptions and links.
AEJMC features resources for scholarships, employment opportunities and event information.
"AEJMC's mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of expression in day-to-day living."
"The Association for Women in Communications is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines."
This is a not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education. The CIOS is an organization supported primarily through individual and institutional memberships, through publication of The Electronic Journal of Communication, and through sales of software products to assist communication scholarship (e.g., ComAbstracts and ComIndex). Created by Teri Harrison and Tim Stephens, now at University at Albany, SUNY. The CIOS was inaugurated in 1990, designed to function as a parent organization for the set of online activities that had been initiated in 1986 as the Comserve service.
"...national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship."
Access to Extra! magazine "highlights" some full text articles back to 1987. Liberal views of accuracy in the news.
"Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. Its mission is to help the public and the news media understand one another better." Full text of Freedom Forum periodical publications, up-to-date information on first amendment issues, professional journalism, journalism education, free press, etc.
"NCA is the oldest and largest national organization serving the academic discipline of Communication. Through its services, scholarly publications, resources, conferences and conventions, NCA works with its members to strengthen the profession and contribute to the greater good of the educational enterprise and society". Research and instruction in the discipline focus on the study of how messages in various media are produced, used, and interpreted within and across different contexts, channels, and cultures.
"The National Press Club, a private club for journalists and communications professionals, has been a Washington institution for more than a century. It is also a world-class conference and meeting facility that hosts thousands of events each year for sophisticated clients from around the globe."
Provides membership information, partial issues of Public Relations Tactics from 1995-present, Information Resources, etc.
Established in April 1909, SPJ, is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the U.S.
