IAMCR is saddened to learn of the passing of Binod Agrawal on 28 March 2023. Binod had a long and active association with IAMCR. He will be missed by his many friends and colleagues.

On April 3rd, 2023, the Emerging Scholars Network hosted a workshop for early career media and communication scholars focused on research methods, entitled “Reflections on Research Methods for Media and Communication Scholars". Watch the recording here.

We are thrilled to announce that IAMCR 2023 has received an outstanding number of abstract submissions from authors in 90 countries. More than 2,800 asbtracts were submitted by authors for presentation both online (OCP23) and in Lyon (Lyon23) and almost 1,000 for online presentation only.

The Gender and Communication section has issued its February 2023 newsletter including information about events and publications that might be of interest to its members. Read it here.

The Political Communication Research Section issued its February newsletter with the latest calls for papers, jobs and networking opportunities, publications, and events that might be of interest to the section's members.

03 March, 2023 - IAMCR's Journalism Research and Education Section sponsored the webinar titled "Empowering Women Journalists in the Global South", reflecting upon the diverse issues that impinge on women journalists’ professional lives and thus rendering them less empowered to perform their journalistic roles.