While tracking down a webpage that the AEJMC Newspaper Division site hasn't featured in a while, I found a collection of links that journallism grad students and faculty members might find useful as they plan thesis and dissertation projects.

The list, compiled by the International Newspaper Marketing Association, features a decade's worth of academic conference papers that the organization considererd especially useful to the newspaper industry:  INMA's favorite AEJMC research papers, 1993-2003.

The request that sent me browsing INMA's site was for a related 20-page report on newspaper research ideas by Earl J. Wilkinson, executive director of the association, based on a 2003 survey of newspaper executives. The document has been available on the AEJMC Newspaper Division website for the past couple of years, but gradually submerged under newer material. Wilkinson's cover letter also discusses his hope for closer connections between university researchers and the industry.

The original links to Wilkinson's presentation, and a related AEJMC survey, are on the "Archives & Resources" page of the newspaper division website, along with links to material from the last three AEJMC annual conventions. I'm hoping to add a new page to the resource section, listing award-winning papers in one place, so that visitors don't have to search a year at a time. For now, INMA's list probably links to a lot of the same top papers.

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