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/)