Message from the Incoming ChairAnn N. Crigler University of Southern California The active awards program and new web site of the Political Communication Section indicate a productive membership. Congratulations to this year's award recipients, Bernard Cohen and Nicholas Valentino (for details, see the minutes on the back page of this issue). In Atlanta we voted to rename the best paper award, and Jerry Manheim has now announced the committees and members. Starting with the 2000 convention, the section will give three awards: Paul Lazarsfeld Award, for the best paper presented at APSA each year. Michael Traugott and Jill Edy have joined the committee reviewing the Atlanta papers. Send nominations to the chair, Gadi Wolfsfeld, at Hebrew University. Doris Graber Award, for the best book. The committee - Russ Neuman (chair), Diana Mutz, and Paolo Mancini - will develop criteria and procedures before issuing a call for nominations. Murray Edelman Award, for career achievement. Committee: Lee Sigelman (chair), Diana Owen, and Bob Boynton. For more information, write to the chair lees@gwu.edu . Many thanks to Pippa Norris for creating the new Web site for the
section. It contains all kinds of useful information - course syllabi,
upcoming conferences, new publications, and interesting links. Please
take a look Doris Graber has agreed to head a committee of former section chairs to brainstorm ways to make the section more useful to members, attract more junior scholars (graduate students and new faculty), and raise and spend funds for the section. I have asked the committee also to recommend priorities for the research agenda in political communication. The committee wants your input. Please send suggestions and names of junior scholars to Doris dgraber@uic.edu or to me acrigler@usc.edu . The committee will share their collective wisdom at a very lively business meeting in Washington, D.C. Please plan to attend. Finally, Lynda Lee Kaid has agreed to serve as Program Chair for the 2001 meetings in San Francisco.
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