President’s Column: Gdansk Conference Update

Spring has arrived in Gdańsk and that means it’s less than two months until the participants in the Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS -17) will be arriving too. Conference organizers are putting the finishing touches on a full program which promises to be a worthy successor to our successful meetings in Santiago…

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Rob Alexander

In Memoriam, Norman Sims

The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant this year The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant on Sunday, May 15, 2022.  Norman Sims (1948-2022), a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is widely acknowledged as the founder of the field. His three edited volumes as well as…

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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

IALJS to Host Hybrid Conference in Chile

The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-16) to be hosted by the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, May 12 to 14, 2022, will be a hybrid event. At this time, continuing uncertainty about COVID-19 as well as the variety of university-related travel and funding restrictions to which many of our members are…

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Rob Alexander

President’s Column. Literary Journalism Goes Digital

One of the true marvels of the IALJS has always been the publication you’re now reading — Literary Journalism. Since its first issue in Summer 2007, the IALJS newsletter has arrived regularly and without fanfare in members’ inboxes, with an email message whose cordial and unassuming tone has belied the remarkable content of this publication. …

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Rob Alexander