We are pleased to present some accounts of IAMCR's history. They include the booklet IAMCR in retrospect, a brief history of the Association prepared by Cees Hamelink and Kaarle Nordenstreng for IAMCR's 50th anniversary conference in Paris, as well as accounts from some key witnesses and actors of those fascinating days.
Hamelink and Nordenstreng are preparing a more complete history. If you have documents or insights to contribute, please contact them.
Cees Hamelink
Kaarle Nordenstreng
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 The brief history of IAMCR prepared by Cees Hamelink and Kaarle Nordenstreng on the occasion of IAMCR's 50th anniversary in 2007 is now available for download as a PDF file.
Preface - by Robin Mansell, President of IAMCR
"The history of IAMCR connects us in many ways to the political, economic and cultural developments in the world over the decades since the Second World War. It brings to life the great narratives of the social sciences and humanities which are the context within which the phenomenal growth of the field of the mass communication research occurred and within which today's field of media and communication research is flourishing." |
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IAMCR history in a nutshell |
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 By Cees Hamelink and Kaarle Nordenstreng
The press release No. 1727 of Unesco on December 23, 1957, begins as follows:
“Fifty experts on information media, from 15 countries, have just completed in a two-day session at Unesco House, Paris, the task of establishing the International Association for Mass Communication Research. |
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AIERI: Une histoire en quelque mots |
 Les origines de l’AIERI sont contemporaines de celles de l’Unesco, dont, dès 1946, le « Comité sur les Besoins techniques dans les Communications de Masse » rédige un projet pour la création d’un « Institut International de la Presse et de l’Information » destiné à promouvoir la formation des journalistes et l’étude des problèmes de la presse dans le monde entier.
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I remember the founding conference... |
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 By Hifzi TOPUZ
In 1957, I was president of the Union of Journalists in Istanbul and editor in chief of the Turkish daily paper, Aksam. The Turkish National Commission for UNESCO asked me to take part in the first course of the International Centre for Higher Education in Journalism which had just been created in Strasbourg. |
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Je me rappelle de la conférence constitutive... |
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Hifzi TOPUZ
En 1957, j’étais président du Syndicat des Journalistes à Istanbul et rédacteur en chef du quotidien turc Aksam. La commission nationale de l’UNESCO pour la Turquie m’a demandé de participer à la première session du Centre International d’Enseignement Supérieur du Journalisme qui venait d’être créé à Strasbourg.
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IAMCR: A first decade as seen from Cracaw, Poland |
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 By Walery Pisarek
It all began with the conference on methods of journalists' training in Paris in April 1956, organized by UNESCO with the participation of representatives of 31 countries. It was chaired by the director of the Carleton College School of Journalism in Ottawa, Professor Wilfred Eggleston. After the conference of journalism teaching experts, a meeting of media researchers was held in a narrower circle
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