The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a major international membership organization for academics in the field, offering regional and national conferences and refereed publications.
Departmental structures within such colleges may separate research and instruction in professional or technical aspects of newspaper and magazine publishing, radio, television, and film.
However, qualitative research, including ethnographic case studies, interviewing, and focus groups, has growing support in some specialties.
[4] The current editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly is Louisa Ha of Bowling Green State University.
[5][circular reference] The current editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator is Jami A. Fullerton, of Oklahoma State University.