Launch of The Conversation podcast on race
A new podcast on race and racism by The Conversation Canada has launched, supported by the Global Journalism Innovation Lab.
News
Book awards for Heidi Tworek for News from Germany
GJIL researcher Heidi Tworek has won the 2020 Ralph Gomory Prize for her book, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900- 1945.
Studies on startups and media policy featured at ICA 2020
Research into the founders of journalism startups in Canada as well as on the impact of media policy was presented at the 2020 ICA annual conference.
New book by Jean Burgess on Twitter’s growth
Twitter: A Biography explores how the platform has evolved as a technology, a company, and a culture.
Events on disinformation and elections co-organized by Elizabeth Dubois
Scholars, journalists and policy makers gathered in Ottawa to discuss the impact of digital media on the 2019 federal election.
New book, Reckoning, by Candis Callison and Mary-Lynn Young
Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young’s new book explores multiple critiques of journalism.
Paper on The Conversation Canada as a peripheral actor
A new paper by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young on the role of peripheral actors in the production and circulation of journalism has been published in Media and Communication.
$2.5 million SSHRC grant for journalism innovation research
The $2.5m Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will support the development of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab.
Nonprofit journalism research at Congress 2019
Researchers from the Global Journalism Innovation Lab presented two papers at Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences held at UBC in Vancouver.