The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 

an independent German foundation, agreed to fund the Asian Mass  Communication  Research & Information Centre ( AMIC) for the first five years under the Agreement of co-operation signed between the two parties.

The Singapore Government had offered to provide office space for AMIC.

Appointment of Dr Lakshmana Rao,

AMIC 1st Secretary-General (1970-76), who made great contributions to the growth of AMIC.

Mr. Roy Daniel of the Ministry of Culture, Singapore was selected as AMIC's Committee Chairman

while Dr Lakshmana Rao from India was appointed AMIC Secretary-General. Mr Daniel served as AMIC Chairman till 1995 afterwhich he was named Chairman d'Honneur till 2003.

The first AMIC Committee meeting was held.  

It approved a comprehensive Programme of Activities for 1971-72 covering documentation, conferences and seminars, training, research and relationship with other regional institutions.

Volume 1, No. 1 of the Asian Mass Communication Bulletin (AMCB),

the official newsletter of AMIC, was published

Twelve senior mass communication editors from 11 countries met in Singapore and traveled together through nine countries. It aroused a great deal of interest among governments, universities, media units and professional organizations not only to establish the need for an organization like AMIC but also the scope for cooperative effort in the mass communication field.

The First General Assembly was held in Singapore to expand the Committee,

provide representation for the Indian sub-continent and North Eastern Asia (Japan and Korea), open membership to all those residents in the region, irrespective of nationality, and define the geographical working boundaries. Prof. Wilbur Schramm, Director of the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University, USA, was scheduled to deliver the opening address.

AMIC published the first Occasional Paper 'Television Reconsidered' 

authored by Professor Wilbur Schramm of Stanford University, USDA, foremost international authority on media and development

The 1^st AMIC Documentation List was published and disseminated. 

It featured a selective list of AMIC's holdings including items which are considered 'fugitive' and or directly concerned with mass communication in Asia.

The first AMIC Annual General Meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur. 

Its theme was 'Communication Teaching and Training'.

AMIC Secretariat suffered a temporary setback when a fire broke out in an adjoining office

causing considerable damage to AMIC'S offices and disrupting work for two months.

The first issue of the Asian Mass Communication Journal was published.

AMIC published "Teaching, Training and Research in Mass Communication: Directory of Institutions in Asia."

AMIC accepted to serve as one of the regional centers of the Japan Prize Circulating Library of Educational Programmes

for Radio and Television sponsored by the Nippon Hose Kyokai and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

AMIC published the Asian Mass Communication Institutions - a Directory  

which featured institutions engaged in mass communication teaching, training and research in Asia.

AMIC published the first issue of Media Asia: 

an Asian Mass Communication Quarterly

AMIC moved to its new headquarters provided by the Singapore government at Newton Road, Singapore.

AMIC held its second General Assembly in Penang, Malaysia. 

Mr. Roy O. Daniel was elected chairman of the AMIC Committee.

AMIC collaborated with UNESCO on a global research project 

"on Community and Communication" covering Finland, England, Federal Republic of Germany, Hungary, Lebanon, Columbia, India and Singapore.

Mr. Reinhard Keune, head of the Mass Communication Department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Bonn

joined AMIC as a consultant (1976-1978) upon the invitation of the AMIC Committtee and AMIC co-sponsors - the Singapore Government and FES.

Dr. Lakshmana Rao who had been AMIC's Secretary-General

since its inception in 1971 resigned from AMIC.

AMIC held the first international conference

on communication teaching and training in Singapore.

AMIC has begun work on the first ever rural press research project

covering India, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The project was supported by the Canadian government-sponsored International Development Research Centre.

Information Secretary Francisco Tatad of the Philippines

was the keynote speaker during the first AMIC Regional Conference on Development Communication Policies and Planning held in Manila.

The International Institute of Communication (ICC), London partnered with AMIC

in organizing a seminar on "Use, Management and Regulations of the Radio Frequency Spectrum" in Singapore.

Television News Exchange, one of AMIC publications,

was awarded a bronze medal in the Book Design Competition jointly organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore and the Singapore Book Publishers Association.

Dr. P.R.R. Sinha who joined AMIC as a senior programme specialist,

and later on redesignated as Head of Research and Training has been appointed Director of AMIC. Before joining AMIC, he was Diretcor of Extension and Communication at the National Institute of Community in Hyderabad, India.

Mr. N.T.R. Singam, one of AMIC's founding members

and one-time AMIC Committee member, passed away. He was senior assistant editor of the Straits Times (Singapore). He founded the National Union of Journalists Malaysia of which he was the General-Secretary.

AMIC and the Confederation of ASEAN Journalists (CAJ) signed a Charter of Co-operation

which provided a clear mandate for AMIC to blue-print and implement training programmes for ASEAN journalists in consultation with CAJ.

The Sri Lanka Government and AMIC signed an Agreement of

Cooperation with a view to strengthening present Sri Lanka-AMIC collaborative efforts as well as AMIC's initiatives in the Asian region toward training, research, publication and documentation in mass communication.

AMIC began a survey on news sources and news flow in 11 Asian countries.

This issue has engaged many communication practitioners and scholars worldwide. International awareness of this topic culminated in the formation of the MacBride Commission for the study of communication problems by UNESCO.

AMIC signed an Agreement of Cooperation with the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

The Agreement provided for mutual cooperation in developing communication media and expertise through training and research.

AMIC signed a Charter of Cooperation with the International organisation of Consumers Unions.

The Charter entrusted AMIC with the responsibility of mapping out and implementing joint training programmes for newsmen and media specialists in the field of consumer journalism and related activities in Asia-Pacific.

AMIC was formally admitted into mutual relationship with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

This made AMIC an international non-governmental organisation of the UN body and heralded a new era in international cooperation for AMIC.

AMIC participated in the 5^th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asian News Agencies

which inaugurated the Asia-Pacific News Network (ANN), seen as a viable complement to international news.

Mr. Sarah Amunugama was appointed AMIC's new Secretary-General.

He was formerly a member of the AMIC Committee and was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of State in Sri Lanka. He was the UNDP Consultant for Asia on the Development Information Network Project. He was the former Director of Information with the Government of Sri Lanka, founder Chairman of the Sri Lanka Film Corporation and Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in 1977.

AMIC identified eight priority areas in communication research in Asia

following a five day seminar in Singapore. The research areas included instructional communication, media economics, communication technology, institutional studies, communication for development, impact studies, sociology of knowledge in communications, communication and culture.

AMIC Secretary-General Mr. Sarah Amunugama joined UNESCO

as Director of the International Programme for the Development of Communication.

AMIC appointed Ms. Ina Suparto, head of the Communication department,

University of Indonesia as the new country representative for Indonesia and Mr. Mohd Hamdan bin Adnan, Lecturer of Communication and Public Relations at the MARA Institute of Technology.

Mr. Abul Basher Mohd Musa, a news editor, was appointed AMIC's country representative in Bangladesh.

Sir Charles Moses, AMIC'S Vice-Chairman for 12 years,

became the first honorary member of the organization. It was during his tenure as Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union that he joined the AMIC executive committee.

Ms. Darawan Sukumalachart, former head of the Journalism

Department of Thammasat University, was appointed AMIC new country representative in Thailand.

Mr. R.V. Rajan, Vice-President of Grant Kenyon & Eckhardt,

was appointed as the new AMIC country representative for India.

Rural press development in Asia received a fresh impetus

through the joint efforts of the newly established Communication Assistance Foundation (CAF), supported by the Graphic Media Development Centre, of the Netherlands and Asian organizations like AMIC. As a first step, CAF organized a seminar on rural press development at the AMIC Secretariat.

Dr. Benjamin Lozare, Director of the Philippine News Agency

was co-opted as a committee member, and was later appointed as Joint Deputy Secretary-General.

Nepal's Ministry of Communications signed an agreement with AMIC

for mutual collaboration in the field of mass communications.

AMIC announced the new country representatives

for Korea - Dr. Woo-Hyun Won of Korean University, for the Philippines - Dr. Teresa Stuart of the University of the Philippines (Los Banos), and for Bangladesh - Mr. M. Tawhidul Anwar of Dhaka University.

AMIC and the International Association of Communication Research (IAMCR)

signed an agreement which provided for mutual consultation and pertinent matters of policy, cooperation in the filed of membership, joint organization of regional conferences and support for each other's activities.

AMIC convened a meeting in Singapore among 10 Asian countries

to strengthen the establishment of an Asia-Pacific documentation network.  

AMIC set up a Press Development Programme

with the co-operationand support of the Inca-Fiej Research Association (IFRA). The programme aimed at helping in the technical development of newspapers in the region through training programmes, on-the-job consultancies, and assistance in identifying sources of technical equipment, software and services for upgrading the physical plants of newspaper organizations. INCA-FIEJ Research Association (IFRA) of Darmstadt, Germany joined hands with AMIC to help the print media in Asia by basing an expert production at AMIC.

AMIC and the Department of Information of Indonesia signed an agreement

of mutual cooperation in the field of research, publication and training in mass communications.

AMIC's 2^nd Annual Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

with the theme " Communication, Technology and Development: Alternatives for Asia."

AMIC's 3^rd Annual Conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand

with theme " The Changing Communications Scene in Asia: Implications for Development."  

The School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and AMIC

signed a Memorandum of Understanding that provided for collaboration in communication research, exchange of scholars and academic materials, sponsorship of seminars and workshops and exchange of information. Accommodation was also to be made available to AMIC at the new premises of the School to be constructed in 1996.

AMIC's 4^th Annual Conference was held in Jakarta, Indonesia

with the theme "The Changing Communications Scene in the Asia-Pacific region: Cultural Implications."

AMIC signed a scientific cooperation agreement with the Catholic University of Brussels.

The agreement was intended to put on a more formal footing teaching and research cooperation that had existed on an ad hoc basis.

AMIC held its 5^th Annual Conference in Singapore

with the theme " Asian Communications: The Next 25 years." It coincided with AMIC's 25th Anniversary.

AMIC moved to its new location at the School of Communication Studies,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

AMIC held its 6^th Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

with the theme "Skyways, Highways and Corridors: Asia's Communication Challenges". Acting Malaysian Prime Minister YAB Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was the keynote speaker.

AMIC added the Asian Radio Write Award as a third category

when it launched the 1997 Media Excellence Awards. The third category was supported by Radio Corporation of Singapore.

AMIC held its 7^th Annual Conference in Bangkok, Thailand

with the theme "Asia's Information Marketplace: Race for Technology, Content and Competence."

AMIC held its 8^th Annual Conference in Chennai, India 

with the theme "Asia: Information Poor to Information Rich".

AMIC and the School of Communication Studies, NTU, Singapore

signed an agreement expanding their collaboration in the field of research, publication and seminars. It provided a sharing of services. The AMIC/SCS Resource Centre with a collection of over 40,000 records provide the faculty and students of SCS with full access to its resources and collections.

The AMIC 9^th Annual Conference on the "Digital Millennium: Opportunities for Asian Media"

was held in Singapore. Mr. Lim Swee Say, Singapore Minister of State for Communication & Information Technology was the keynote speaker.

Dr. Anura Goonasekera, Head of Research,

was appointed as AMIC's new Deputy Secretary-General.

AMIC appointed new country representatives in Asia. 

They were Mr. Gamel Nasir Mohd. Ali for Malaysia, Dr. Kim Kwang for South Korea, and Mr. H.M. Gunasekera for Sri Lanka.

Japan Media Communication (JAMCO) partnered with AMIC

in organising the 10^th JAMCO International Symposium on "Positioning Asian TV in the 21^st Century" held in Malaysia.

The School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,

was renamed the School of Communication and Information (SCI). AMIC has close collaboration with SCI since the mid 90s.

The AMIC/SCI Resource Center was renamed the Asian Communication resource Centre.

It houses a collection of 70,000 records on mass communication, information technology, new media and media laws in Asia-Pacific.

Mr. Vijay Menon retired from AMIC 

as its Secretary-General and Mr. Jose Ma. Carlos was appointed as the new head of AMIC.

Mr. Nalaka Gunawardene was appointed the new country representative

for Sri Lanka following the death of his predecessor, Mr. H.M. Gunasekera.

AMIC partnered with Times Media Private Limited now called

Marshall Cavendish International in Singapore in publishing and promoting five titles.

AMIC signed a new memorandum of agreement

with the School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, that strengthened our collaboration in research, publication and conferences. The agreement, valid until 2007, also served to bolster AMIC's finances.

AMIC and the School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,

co-publishers of the Asian Journal of Communication (AJC), signed a publishing agreement with Taylor & Francis for the printing and marketing of AJC worldwide.

The Internet Society (ISOC) agreed to be a partner

in the Pan Asia ICT Research Grants Programme being administered by AMIC.

The inaugural RadioAsia conference is launched in Singapore,

in partnership with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and Singapore Exhibition Services.

The first AMIC Distinguished Forum, composed of prominent media scholars from

around the world, is convened at the Beijing Annual Conference.

Prof. Ang Peng Hwa is elected Chairman of AMIC.

The AMIC International Advisory Committee is formed,

composed of eminent international scholars and media experts to strengthen its research, publications and capacity building initiatives. Its first meeting was held during the 14th AMIC Annual Conference in Beijing, 18-21 July 2005.

AMIC marks its 35th Anniversary at its Annual Conference

and in a special celebration for local members and staff.

Dr Shashi Tharoor, Under Secretary-General for Communication and Public Information,

United Nations visits AMIC in July while on an official visit to Singapore.

AMIC moves into its new premises on the fourth floor

of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University.

AMIC starts the hosting of the South Asian version of World Press Freedom Day

with an event commenorating it in Male, Maldives.

AMIC co-organises and hosts the first World Journalism Education Congress

in conjunction with the 16th AMIC Annual Conference in Singapore.

AMIC organizes the first South Asian Media Forum

in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

AMIC holds its 17th Annual Conferences, on the theme of

Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals, in the Philippines.

AMIC holds its 18th Annual Conference, on the theme of

Media, Democracy and Government: Emerging Paradigms in a Digital Age, in New Delhi, India.

Prof. Sundeep R Muppidi was appointed Secretary-General of AMIC

AMIC co-organised RadioAsia 2010 in Delhi

Themed ‘Journey to the Digital Land: Addressing Diverse Radio Audiences and Markets’

AMIC held its 19th Annual Conference in Singapore, on the theme of

Technology and Culture: Communication Connectors and Dividers

AMIC hosted the 2nd Asia Media Forum in Bangkok

The 2nd ASEAN Media Forum was held on 9-10 November in Bangkok, Thailand. Themed 'Developing Regional Media Collaborations for ASEAN Community Building', the two-day forum had concurrently ran a workshop after the ASEAN Summit.

AMIC organised ‘ISOC Event INET Singapore 2010’

It was the first collaboration between AMIC and the Internet Society

AMIC bi-monthly magazine ceased publication

It was replaced with an online newsletter sent monthly to its members and the public highlighting activities of AMIC

AMIC co-organised RadioAsia 2011 in Delhi

Themed ‘Radio on-Air Everywhere: Adopting Multi-platform Strategies’

AMICto hold its 20th Annual Conference and 40th Anniversary in Hyderabad, India

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