Comfort wins 2025 American Journalism Best Article Award
Associate professor Suzannah Evans Comfort has been named the 2025 winner of the Best Article Award presented by American Journalism, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Journalism Historians Association. Her winning article, “Before the Environment Was News: Outdoor Writers and the Boundaries of Journalism,” was published in the journal’s third issue in 2024.
The award honors research published in the journal between summer 2024 and spring 2025 that is original, rigorous, and makes an outstanding contribution to developing scholarship in the field of journalism and media history.
Founded in 1981, the AJHA seeks to advance education and research in mass communication history through its annual convention, regional conferences, committees, awards, speakers, and publications.
Comfort and the three additional finalists for the award will be recognized during the 44th annual AJHA National Convention Sept. 25–27 in Long Beach, California.