The Political Communication section has been busy this year. We have hired a web-designer from the University of Washington who is constructing a new Web site for the section. Among other things, it will have information on the section newsletter, section officers, links to the table of contents of communications journals, links to publishers, media outlets, and universities, a website search engine, and a bulletin board where members could post requests.

At the direction of the last year's business meeting, the executive committee has been reviewing procedures to provide financial support to graduate students specializing in political communication research who wish to join the section, subscribe to Political Communication, or attend the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Information on this issue will be reported to the membership at the 2002 business meeting.

Section members have been working with the Shorenstein Center at Harvard on a one-day workshop on "Restless Searchlight: Terrorism, the Media & Public Life" (Invitation details are available as a .PDF file). The event will occur right before the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston this year. (The draft Program is available as a .PDF file).

If you have suggestions of other things we should be working on, feel free to get in touch with me.

Darrell M. West
Brown University
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Providence, RI 02912-1977
(401) 863-1163
Fax 401.863.2452
E-mail: <Darrell_West@brown.edu>