Historical innovation in explanatory journalism
This project examines the history of journalistic innovation and media policy. The team is exploring what earlier attempts to reach a wide audience using explanatory journalism have taught us; and, based on past experience, how policy can better support forms of evidence based journalism. The research moves through three sequential stages.
First, how new communication modes cultivated new genres of explanatory content. Second, how the historical evolution of intellectual property law first fostered, then effectively abolished the republishing of journalistic content. And third how new forms of explanatory journalism in the past, like investigative journalism, affected civic engagement, public understanding of issues, and public policy.
Research team
Heidi Tworek PhD
Associate ProfessorDepartment of History and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
Gene Allen PhD
ProfessorProfessor, School of Journalism, Ryerson University
Theme news
Callison and Tworek named Canada Research Chairs
Two members of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab team, Candis Callison and Heidi Tworek, have…
Book awards for Heidi Tworek for News from Germany
Theme publications
- From Flies to File Storage: Policy Issues in the Life-Cycle of Explanatory JournalismTworek, K., Wilkinson, S., Dubois, E., Ren, L., & Lee, L. (2021).
- Scholars featured at Canadian Communication Association conferenceGJIL researchers are presenting their research the annual meeting of the Canadian Communication Association.