A vast array of actors, announcers, journalists, performers, writers, producers and directors, to name just a few, are essential to sustain the world of entertainment and communications.

Miriam Smith

Often they’re organized into associations, guilds and unions to represent their interests and skills.

Miriam A. Smith, a San Francisco State University Associate Professor in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts has assembled a comprehensive dictionary of these organizations into a single compilation.

Whether you want to know who represents broadcasters or print cartoonists or set designers, you’ll find them here, thanks to Prof. Miriam. According to the university, she “teaches in the areas of media law, media management and economics, media ethics and mobile media. Her words circle the globe. She’s been published in the U.S. and China and quoted in U.S. and European media.”