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To: Interested parties
From: Canadian Journal of Communication, Editor replacement committee
Re: New editor for the CJC
Date: October 21, 2004
The Canadian Journal of Communication seeks an editor to take over from David Mitchell whose second three-year term will expire in early June, 2005. Potential applicants should submit two documents to Rowland Lorimer, publisher of the journal (Lorimer@sfu.ca) and chair of the succession committee:
- a formal and full letter of application with curriculum vitae and the names of three referees;
- a letter of institutional support for the Journal indicating the exact nature and extent of that support from an authorized university official.
The successful applicant will be a senior scholar (full professor or established associate professor) with a notable research record. He or she will have a broad understanding of, and sympathy for, Canadian communications scholarship. He or she will also have the support of his/her department and university and broad acceptance within the communications community. (The CJC may consult broadly in the final stages of the leading applicant’s consideration.) For the past 12 years the CJC has enjoyed support of the editor’s university in the form of a phone/net equipped office, a one-semester course release, and $5,000 to $8,000 annually for an assistant editor.
The letter of application should include an editorial vision statement including why the applicant is interested in becoming editor and the role the applicant intends to play in the development of the journal. The term of appointment is three years subject to a one-time renewal.
Deadline for applications, January 15, 2005. While the journal understands that institutional support may not be able to be put in place by this date, the institutional letter of support should indicate what commitments are in place and indicate a date by which a full decision of support will be made.