Resolution Three: To Affirm Openness in AEJMC Convention Panels and Presentations
Moved: Dwight Teeter, Tennessee, former AEJMC president; seconded by several members.
Whereas the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has long stood for openness and transparency in public life, and,
Whereas it has been in the spirit of AEJMC that journalists are free to cover public activities of its divisions, interest groups, commissions, and, other bodies, and,
Whereas at the 2007 convention the need for a specific declaration of that policy of openness became apparent,
Therefore, be it resolved:
That C-SPAN and any other news organization or journalist is welcome to cover all open panels and presentations at conventions of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and
That all guests invited to speak on panels and other presentations at AEJMC conventions will be informed of the open-coverage policy, and,
That the president of AEJMC be directed to convey an apology to the appropriate personnel of C-Span for the removal of one of their news teams from an AEJMC panel at the 2007 annual convention of AEJMC.