IAMCR’s 2025 travel grants supported early-stage scholars from low- and middle-income countries, enabling them to attend the Singapore conference, share research, overcome financial barriers, and build global academic networks. Read their experiences.
Launched at IAMCR 2025, this report explores how multimodal research practices—like film, performance, and installation—enhance media scholarship and outlines strategies for supporting non-written academic communication within the discipline.
The Islam & Media Working Group presented its annual Nile Awards at IAMCR 2025 in Singapore, recognizing outstanding research on Islam and media. Three papers were awarded for originality, methodology, and scholarly contribution.
On 17 July 2025, at the closing plenary at the Singapore conference, the members present condemned the conviction of IAMCR member Bahruz Samadov for high treason by the Azerbaijani courts, and called for his immediate release.
IAMCR’s Ethics Task Force hosted a workshop on fostering ethical, inclusive environments. Participants explored challenges and strategies for implementing the Code of Conduct across IAMCR activities, focusing on equity, inclusion, and accountability.
The Award honours three outstanding papers that explore race, representation, and resistance through innovative approaches to media and communication. Their work reflects Hall’s legacy of critical, socially engaged scholarship across diverse cultural and political contexts.
IAMCR books
Edited by María T. Soto-Sanfiel and Virpi Salojärvi
This book redefines how we understand journalism in today’s emotionally charged world, bringing together 60 leading scholars from across five continents to investigate how emotion shapes journalism theory, production practices, content, and audience engagement.
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It examines the challenges facing political communication in the 2020s, drawing on and critically updating Jay Blumler’s work to explore what publicness and democracy mean.
Members' books
Edited by IAMCR member Surbhi Dahiya this book offers a comprehensive exploration into the multifaceted dimensions of communication, from its historical roots to its contemporary dynamics and future possibilities.
Written by IAMCR member Neil Thurman this book explores the multifaceted dynamics of media change across technologies and societies.
Written by IAMCR members Lars Willnat, David H. Weaver and Cleveland Wilhoit this book offers a timely, comparative portrait of journalism during a period of crisis for both the nation and the news media.
Written by IAMCR member Jörg Becker this book explores the early political and intellectual development of Richard Sorge, drawing on 43 of his previously unpublished journalistic articles from 1920–1922.