Dr. Louisa Ha, chair of the telecommunications department in the School of Media and Communication, will assume her position on Oct. 1 as editor-in-chief of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Her term runs for three years.
She has been an associate editor of the journal since 2007 and is a fellow with the AEJMC Leadership Institute for Diversity, created to provide training and mentoring for women and people of color interested in becoming academic administrators in journalism and mass communication.
At BGSU, she is the founder and chair of the Emerging Media Cluster in the school, and is leading a four-year study of northwest Ohio media use.