Asia Pacific Media Educator
CALL FOR PAPERS
Thematic Issue No.20, 2009
“What Are We Teaching Future Journalists When …”
Indeed, what are journalism programs doing to keep pace with industry trends? What are we teaching journalism students so that they are reasonably equipped to pre-empt and tackle issues that will affect their work in an integrated newsroom environment?
What are we teaching journalism students when bottomline and marketplace fundamentals, which dominate the newsroom thinking, are at odds with the core function of journalism education – which is to produce educated journalists highly conscious of their public service roles, journalists who can see the many stories that go unreported because they are deemed to be unworthy by news conventions. Are journalism programs and educators, within their comfort zones and isolated from industry realities, becoming somewhat redundant? What are we teaching future journalists when …
Times are bad, advertising revenues are falling and the media are laying off their reporting staff.
News managers, marketing personnel and ‘techies’ are becoming more dominant in the newsroom than professional journalists.
Cadet journalists are expected to be effective multi-taskers - adaptable and equally savvy with ‘old’ and ‘new’ media technologies.
Newspaper readership and circulation are falling while news sites, most with free contents, are exploding.
Asia-Pacific Media Educator (APME) invites research papers, essays and critical commentaries on related topics – apart from those suggested above – that address the thematic question: “What are we teaching future journalists when …?”
APME is a multi-disciplinary refereed journal, published by the School of Journalism & Creative Writing” at University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. The first issue was published in 1996.
Hard copies are available for individual and institutional subscribers. The full-online version is available at the University of Wollongong Research Online database at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/
APME focuses on generating discussions and dialogue between media educators and practitioners. The contents range from critical media commentaries to research papers on innovative teaching and training in journalism in the Asia Pacific.
APME favours papers that focus on applied research. Submitted papers are first assessed by the editors for the contents’ relevance to APME’s readership, the research questions, the salient issues it examines and significance of the findings to practical applications in journalism teaching and practice.
Deadline for paper submission: June 30, 2009
Email your paper (in RTF format) to the joint-editors:
Dr Eric Loo Professor Serajul Bhuiyan
Editor, APME
Head
School of Journalism & Creative Writing Department of Communication and University of Wollongong Dramatic Arts
NSW 2522, Australia Auburn University at Montgomery Email: eloo@uow.edu.au Alabama, USA.
Email: sbhuiyan@aum.edu
Information for Contributors
1. Articles should be informative and written in a style, which communicates clearly with readers from academic and non-academic backgrounds.
2. Articles submitted for publication must be typed in double spacing. Leave 1.5 inches (or 3.5cms) for margins on all sides. The acceptable maximum length for academic research-based articles is 6,000 words including endnotes and references. For short journalistic commentaries, the maximum length is 3,500 words.
3. Articles should be accompanied by a 150-word abstract.
4. Titles and section headings should be brief and specified at the appropriate places. Quotations exceeding 50 words should be italicised and indented further into the text. Use double quotation marks. If dates are cited, use it in the form of 18 August 1996.
5. All tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles. Footnotes to tables and their source should be placed below the tables. APME also accepts line art and half-tone artwork if they are central to the paper. Camera-ready artwork should be submitted.
6. Further explanations to key points may be used and indicated by superscript numbers in the text and annotated on a single page at the end of the text in the form of Endnotes.
All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the endnotes, beginning with the author's last name.
7. Papers will be peer reviewed. Suggestions for improvements or changes will be sent to authors within 80 days of receipt. Accepted papers will appear in publication on average 6 months after they have been accepted and corrections made.
8. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures and related works published elsewhere. Articles under review for publication elsewhere or previously published are not eligible for consideration.
9. On acceptance of articles for publishing, authors will then be requested to submit a copy of their article on disk (preferably in Macintosh format).
Author Information
Include on the title page author's name, academic or professional title, institutional affiliation and e-mail address.
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