[ecrea] happy 10th anniversary ECREA

Apologies for sending this to the list (and for the slightly 
personalised narration) - but it's an important day for ECREA today.

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The two General Assemblies, of the two constituent organisations (ECCR 
and ECA) that established ECREA, took place on 24 November 2005, exactly 
ten years ago. That evening, the new Executive Board (Andrea Pitasi, 
Annaleena Ylinen, Annette Hill, François Heinderyckx, John Rosenbaum, 
Lars Nyre, Nico Carpentier, Nishan Havandjian, Pertti Hurme, and Uwe 
Hasebrink (in alphabetical order)) met for the very first time.

It's not very well known, but there were four people that did the work, 
as members of the merging task force: François Heinderyckx (ECCR), 
Pertti Hurme (ECA), John Rosenbaum (ECA) and myself (ECCR). Especially 
John hasn't receive much credit for what he did, so this day I will 
think of him, and the thumbs up picture he sent me, after we reached the 
agreement, showing a big grin and holding the accepted Memorandum of 
Intent that settled the merger. Here's to you, John!

I'll also think of the grandfathers and -mothers of ECREA, their many 
attempts to establish a European communication association, and their 
support when ECREA was eventually founded.

Another moment comes to my mind, and that's when I attended the IAMCR 
conference in Taipei (at the end of July 2005), where I was sitting in 
the hotel lobby, writing that very first draft of the Memorandum of 
Intent, on my mobile phone. For the record: It was a Nokia 6800.

And from the archive, a picture of the model that we agreed on can be 
found here: nicocarpentier.net/ECREA_Time.JPG. Just to show that in the 
very beginning, ECREA's survival wasn't too certain, and we developed a 
roll-back strategy in case everything went wrong. It didn't.

Happy anniversary, ECREA.

Nico

Ps: for those interested: see http://www.ecrea.eu/about/history
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Free University of Brussels
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Charles University in Prague
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New edited book (open access):
Journalism, representation and the public sphere
Edited by Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic 
Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin 
and Richard Kilborn
http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
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New special issue (open access):
Publics, Discursive Struggles and Political Agency
Edited by Julie Uldam & Nico Carpentier
in Javnost - The Public (Volume 22, Issue 1, 2015)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/22/1
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