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 @AJMediaHistory! More here:

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:

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Congratulations to the winner of this year's @AJMediaHistory Rising Scholar award, Natascha Toft Roelsgaard!

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 this fall.

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:

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:

Congrats to the five media historians receiving funding to support their diversity and media history research! The microgrants are sponsored by the @AEJHistory and AJHA as part of a collaborative effort to stimulate more diversity research in @JHistoryJournal and @AJMediaHistory.

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.” 

Today, we remember Pam Parry, our second vice president whose funeral is being held today. Pam was a lifetime member of AJHA and served on the Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018. Pam's full obituary can be read here: 

Microgrant applications due January 31! @AJMediaHistory @JHistoryJournal @AEJHistory

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Let the bidding begin! Our AJHA auction site is live. See the artifacts, books, memorabilia, games, historic magazine, and the rest of the 71 items available here: You must attend the Pittsburgh conference in order to claim any item you win.

Only 2 more days to donate to the AJHA auction! All proceeds help grad students attend our conference. Donate an item related to media, history, your city or school; a signed copy of a book you wrote; something fun.

Only 10 more days until the 9/20 deadline for donating to the AJHA auction! Fill in this quick form with what you'd like to donate to help our grad students. Something fun or items related to media or history are great, including books by AJHA authors.

AJHA convention attendees can tour the Senator John Heinz History Center (@historycenter), PA’s largest history museum. Learn about Heinz ketchup, Mr. Rogers, Pittsburgh innovations, and more! Convention info: Photo credit: Heinz History Center.

You can help grad students by bidding on this comic strip purse at the AJHA auction. If you have something fun or interesting related to history, journalism, your school or town, click here by Sept. 20: Please no used books or magazines except rare ones.

Register and reserve a room for the AJHA national convention by Saturday, Sept. 7 before prices increase. Visit We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh Oct. 3-5.

AJHA has awarded the 2024 Hazel Dicken-Garcia Research Grant to Ashley Walter of St. Louis University. The grant will support Walter’s project on lawsuits filed by women working at print news organizations following passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.