Joint Publications Committee

Members from the Political Communication Divisions of ICA and APSA form an advisory board to the journal Political Communication. For the ICA, it is either three or four people, depending on who is the current chair of the committee.  The newsletter editor is ex-officio member of that committee.  This year's committee is:

W. Russell Neuman (APSA), Chair
Montague Kern (ICA)
Barbara Pfetsch (ICA)
Robert Entman (APSA)
Gadi Wolfsfeld (APSA)
Dhavan Shah (ICA)
Doris Graber (APSA)

Best Article Awards Committee (ICA)

This committee (four people plus the chairperson) is in charge of selecting the best journal article dealing with political communication for the ICA Political Communication Division.  From a long list of journals in our field, committee members identify articles that demonstrate theoretical and methodological rigor.  The nominated articles are then ranked to determine what is thought to be the article that best exemplifies political communication research.  The committee is renewed every year.  This year's committee is:

Prof. Liesbet van Zoonen (chair), UK
Prof. Maria Jose Canel, Spain
Dr. Kevin Coe, US
Prof. Robert Hariman, US
Dr. David Ryfe, US
Dr. Jonathon Zhu, Hong Kong

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award (APSA)

Dietram Scheufele, Chair
Michael X. Delli Carpini
Sarah Oates

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award (APSA)

Michael Schudson, Chair
Steven M. Schneider
Oya Ozkanca
Elvin Lim

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award (APSA)

Charles Mitchell, Chair
Lynn Vavreck
Diane Heath

Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award (APSA)

Craig Brians, Chair
Christopher Weber
Stephanie Burkhalter

David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship Committee 

This is a joint ICA-APSA nomination committee that includes representatives of both divisions of Political Communication.  It is appointed by the two chairs of the divisions every two years, as the Award in memory of one of the founders of our discipline is presented every other year.  The aim of the Award is to recognize the service of those who distinguished in contributing to the field as program planners, journal editors, division leaders, webmasters, in several activities that require dedication of time and often of personal resources. 

This award was created to honor David Swanson's service to the ICA and APSA political communication divisions.

Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Chairperson (ICA)
Shanto Iyengar, co-Chair (APSA)
Christina Holtz-Bacha (ICA)
John Tedesco (ICA)
Scott L. Althaus (APSA)