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Broadcast Education Association
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BEA Book Awards
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) recognizes outstanding 2025–2026 first-edition scholarly books in broadcasting and mass communication through awards for monographs/edited collections and relevant textbooks.
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LABF Broadcast Historian Awards
The Broadcast Education Association’s LABF Broadcast Historian Awards recognize books and creative works that contribute to broadcast or media history.
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Library of American Broadcasting Foundation Broadcast Historian Awards
The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offer two annual $2,500 Broadcast Historian Awards: the Book Award for an educator who has published a book on broadcast/media history and the Creative Award for an educator who has produced a related documentary or multimedia project.
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- $5,000
BEA Research Grants
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers $1,000–$4,000 research grants for traditional academic projects aligned with its mission and focused on broadcasting, electronic media, or mass communication.
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- $4,000
Distinguished Education Service Award (DESA)
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) presents the Distinguished Education Service Award (DESA) annually to an individual whose exceptional achievement or sustained service has made a significant, lasting contribution to electronic media education.
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Innovation in Teaching Award (ITA)
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers the Innovation in Teaching Award (ITA) to recognize media educators whose pedagogy, teaching style, and assignments demonstrate innovative, engaging, and non-lecture-based learning.
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Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers the Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award, an annual $1,000 prize recognizing the best doctoral dissertation in broadcasting and electronic media.
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- $1,000
Lifetime Achievement in Creative Scholarship (LACS) – BEA Awards
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers the Lifetime Achievement in Creative Scholarship (LACS) Award to honor current or retired faculty members with an extensive record of media-related creative scholarship or sustained impact on students’ creative work, typically spanning at least 20 years.
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Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship (LAS) – BEA Awards
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers the Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship (LAS) Award to recognize an individual’s extensive and significant contributions to media research and scholarship, typically demonstrated through at least 20 years of publications in books, leading journals, or public scholarship.
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New Faculty Research Grant
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers the New Faculty Research Grant (NFRG), a biennial $1,000 award supporting research by untenured broadcast and electronic media faculty across areas such as technology, law and policy, audiences, production, and international media systems.
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- $1,000
BEA Research Grants
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) offers Research Grants to support scholarly projects aligned with the organization’s mission, including associated research expenses.
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