The mission of this organization is to serve its members and AEJMC by research, publishing and discussing issues related to media management and economics. Excellent research papers in our field take part in our Best Paper Award at AEJMC’s annual conference.

In addition, each year we award the Robert Picard Award for Book and Monographs. The award is named in honor of division member and senior scholar Robert Picard of Oxford University. Past winners include Mark Deuze’s 2011 book, Managing Media WOrk (2010 imprint) and George Sylvie’s 2013 work (2012 imprint), Newsroom Decision-Making: Under New Management.

Networking within our scientific community, both at a national and an international level is of specific interest to us. We thus encourage colleagues from all over the world to join our division.

The development of education in media management and economics is a major issue of the division. We thus provide a forum for discussing challenges, teaching methods, concepts and visions for education in this field.

Each year we also award the Barry Sherman Teaching Award. The award honors the memory of Barry Sherman, who was Lambdin Kay Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia at the time of his death in 2000. He served as director of the prestigious Peabody Awards from 1991-2000. During his 19 years at Georgia, the university honored Sherman twice for teaching excellence. In 1996, the International Radio and Television Society Foundation named him a Stanton Fellow for his “outstanding contribution to electronic media education.”

We aim to support and promote young academics of our field. We support developing research through presentation opportunities at AEJMC’s Midwinter Conference and at AEJMC’s annual conference. At the annual conference a student research paper contest recognizes the top three papers written by graduate students, with the top paper winning the Mary Alice Shaver Award. All three top student papers receive a monetary stipend.

Professional freedom and responsibility encompasses research, teaching and service and is related to AEJMC members’ interaction with the media professions through preparation of students for media careers, research examining media roles and responsibilities, and service to the professions through engagement and training. Service in support of professional freedom and responsibility is an essential expectation of every member of AEJMC. Members should work in support of the principles of professional freedom and responsibility within this organization, at their home institutions, and in society at large.