Welcome to the Fall, 2003 Issue

We hope everyone has a wonderful time at APSA’s centenary conference in the United States’ second capital city, Philadelphia. May you find the weather more congenial than the authors of the Constitution did. Before you go, you can check out the slate of candidates for leadership positions in APSA’s political communication division for 2004 - 2005, courtesy of the nominating committee and chair Mark Wattier.

Our roundtable for this issue reunites some of the political communication scholars who evaluated news media performance during the 1991 Persian Gulf War in Taken by Storm. William A. Dorman, W. Lance Bennett, and Robert M. Entman offer a first take on how the news covered the latest war in Iraq, before, during and after “major combat operations.”

We continue to mine the riches of the Library of Congress’s On-Line Prints and Photographs collection for our featured resource this issue. Joshua Compton provides a guide to three collections of political cartoons available on-line.

Our list of recent and forthcoming books includes a link to initial findings from the Indiana University School of Journalism’s recent survey of American journalists as well as new books on new media, political psychology, and the rhetoric of both campaigns and single issues.

Fall is always a busy time for paper calls: both of our sponsoring organizations’ calls for papers have deadlines in November, and a number of regional and national meetings of organizations that address political communication issues also have fall deadlines.

In addition to the APSA conference over Labor Day weekend, a number of other meetings are scheduled for the fall, including regional political science meetings and the National Communication Association’s annual conference.

Fullbright scholarship deadlines continue to top our list of funding opportunities.

Best wishes for the fall term.

Jill Edy