AEJMC ends 2007 annual conference

AEJ has closed its '07 annual meeting, held in Washington, DC. 2008 will be in Chi-town, the Windy City. '07 was my first AEJ in years and it was fascinating. Unbelievably, there was no Q&A session following Bill Moyers' keynote address. (Organisers said there was 'no time' as Canadian Embassy was hosting the big opening reception that followed immediately.) Moyers' observations were acute regarding how American journalism used to be and how dire things are now with what passes for journalism as well as for actual die-hard reporting that remains. One sobering example given by Moyers was major-media journalists having to continue their work off-the-clock because some "news" (i.e., corporate) management apparently doesn't consider systematic fact-checking a necessary part of news reporting and mainstream media jobs. Lots more conference detail to be found on the AEJMC.org website.