Communications: Professional Associations

ACES sets "standards of excellence and give a voice to editors in journalism, government, business and beyond through top-notch training, networking, and career opportunities."

"ACA is committed to enabling the effective use of new and evolving technologies to facilitate communication instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate. While the Association is based in the United States, it is a virtual organization that welcomes participation from academics and professionals throughout the world."

The APi "aims to help the news media, especially local publishers and newspaper media, advance in the digital age."

"The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association’s mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to cultivate the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice and a better informed public."

Originating as a women's journalism fraternity AWC is now "a strong national network of communicators in a broad range of disciplines."

"The IFJ promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists."

ITS "is an association of professionals in the information, communications, and technology sectors... The goal of ITS is to research and analyze issues related to the emergence of a global information society. The organization places particular emphasis on the interrelationships among socioeconomic, technological, legal, regulatory, competitive, organizational, policy, and ethical dimensions of the issues it addresses."

"The National Communication Association advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry...NCA promotes the widespread appreciation of the importance of communication in public and private life, the application of competent communication to improve the quality of human life and relationships, and the use of knowledge about communication to solve human problems."

"NSA is the leading source for community, education and entrepreneurial business knowledge needed to be successful in the speaking profession."

SPJ "works to inspire and educate current and future journalists through professional development; and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press through its advocacy efforts."

Join the PRSSA to be eligible for internships, scholarships, and competitions, and to take advantage of networking and event opportunities.

ECA "is a professional organization of scholars, teachers, and students of Communication Studies. The ECA was initially established in 1910 and continues as the oldest professional communication association in the United States."

"Central States Communication Association (CSCA) is a professional, academic organization of primary and secondary school teachers, students, college and university professors, and communication professionals." Consisting of consists of the 13 Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

The purpose of SSCA "is to promote the study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication"

WSCA is an "association of scholars, teachers, and students of communication with over 1,000 members from around the globe"