COMM 3340: Media Writing

ASBPE is the professional association for full-time and freelance editors, writers, art directors, and designers employed in the business, trade, and specialty press.

ASME is the principal organization in the United States for the editorial leaders of magazines and websites. Founded in 1963, ASME strives to safeguard the First Amendment, support the development of journalism and defend the editorial integrity of print and digital publications. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media and publishes the ASME Guidelines for Editors and Publishers.

CRMA compiles industry research and data for its membership and promotes city and regional magazines as a major media market.

CLMP ensures a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. We communicate the art of literary publishing to readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, educators, funders and other literary stakeholders, and work to bring all of these communities together. CLMP carries out this mission so that essential literary voices from all corners can make their way from writers to readers.

Founded in 1925 in France, FIPP is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious membership associations. Originally formed by a consortium of magazine publishers to enable them to share ideas, the organisation has grown over almost 100 years to include media owners and content creators from across the world.

As the primary national trade association for the consumer magazine media industry, MPA represents over 500 magazine media brands that span a vast range of genres across online, mobile, video and print media.