Notes of Interest

Call for Editor-in-Chief of Mass Communication and Society

AEJMC seeks an Editor-in-Chief for Mass Communication and Society published by Taylor & Francis. Editors are appointed for a three-year term (limit of two consecutive terms). Responsibilities include the prompt processing of all manuscripts submitted to Mass Communication and Society, coordinating six issues per year, handling all correspondence relative to the publication, serving as the public relations face of the journal, cooperating with the AEJMC Central Office on business and budget matters affecting the journal, reporting to the Mass Communication and Society division of AEJMC about journal business, conducting an annual meeting of the journal's editorial board, and preparing an annual report.

The editor's appointment will begin in 2014 with Volume 17 of the journal. However, because of a backlog in submissions, the new editor will begin receiving manuscript submissions in spring or early summer of 2012 to ensure a smooth transition between editors, as well as to ensure that all manuscripts filling Volume 17 have been accepted under the new editor.

The editor will receive an annual honorarium of $6000 (with a 3% increase each year for inflation) and a budgeted amount for editorial expenses.

Applicants must be a member in good standing of AEJMC and of the Mass Communication and Society division. The editor will be required to remain a member of the division throughout the term of service. Applicants should also be able to write and edit clearly and concisely, have an understanding and appreciation of a broad range of research methods, have extensive knowledge of the literature of mass communication, have an interest in the workings of the publication industry and of journal ranking/promotion, and be housed in a department or school that is eager to cooperate in this publishing venture with special reference to such considerations as office space, travel, use of equipment, and provision of student and/or staff assistance.

Please submit a letter of application, a complete curriculum vita, a letter of support from a department chair or school dean, a two-page plan for the journal, a list of five references, and other supporting material electronically to division head, Francesca Carpentier at francesca.carpentier@gmail.com. Letters of support from the department or school should be sent directly from the department chair/school dean.

Reviews of applications will begin immediately, but to receive full consideration, all application materials should be submitted by April 30, 2011. Finalists will be contacted no later than July 15, 2011. Finalists will be interviewed by members of the Mass Communication and Society division executive committee during the annual AEJMC conference in St. Louis in August 2011. The division head will distribute the executive committee's recommendation for editor-in-chief to the division membership by October 2011 (in the division's fall newsletter) and the division membership will vote on whether to accept the division's recommendation of editor-in-chief by December 2011.