Dear AoIRists, On behalf of our Editorial Team, authors, reviewers, and supporting institutions, we are pleased and proud to introduce the Journal of Media Innovations. The Journal serves the professional and research communities engaged in the cross-disciplinary field of media innovations. The Journal is open access, peer reviewed, and published two times annually via the University of Oslo¹s FRITT initiative (Frie tidsskrifter fra UiO ­ Free Journals from the University of Oslo). The Journal is sponsored by the Centre for Research in Media Innovations (CeRMI) and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. The inaugural issue demarcates the foundations and literatures of media innovations as a field, foregrounding many of its important components and thematic foci, and thereby points to a range of important challenges to innovation on both theoretical and practical levels. The Journal is available at <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> ARTICLES: Charles M. Ess: Introduction to Inaugural Issue. Axel Bruns: Media Innovations, User Innovations, Societal Innovations. Valérie-Anne Bleyen, Sven Lindmark, Heritiana Ranaivoson, and Pieter Ballon: A typology of media innovations: Insights from an exploratory study. Leyla Dogruel: What is so special about Media Innovations? A characterization of the field. Iris Jennes, Jo Pierson, and Wendy Van den Broeck: User Empowerment and Audience Commodification in a Commercial Television Context. Lars Nyre: Medium design method. RESEARCH BRIEF: Jan Bierhoff and Sander Kruitwagen: Stories behind the News; Designing an Advanced App for Journalistic Background Information. BOOK REVIEWS Arne H. Krumsvik: Book Review Editorial Statement: Mapping the Emerging Field of Media Innovation Research. George Sylvie: Storsul & Krumsvik - Media innovations: A multidisciplinary study of change. Avery E. Holton: Weller et al., Twitter and Society. Jens Barland: Ibrus & Scolari - Crossmedia Innovations. Texts, Markets, Institutions. Additional information on upcoming issues, including submission requirements and deadlines, is also found on the Journal website. With a thousand thanks, and a thousand thanks more to all who have made this Journal and Inaugural Issue possible, Charles Ess Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess@media.uio.no