Journalism innovation and media startups
In partnership with The Conversation Canada, this team is exploring the mechanisms through which a journalism non-profit can leverage online media to enhance the production, distribution, and circulation of evidence-based reporting.
The project includes the development of a critical race podcast, an audience engagement strategy, and visual explanatory journalism approaches at The Conversation Canada in order to test and validate strategies to enhance engagement and impact.
Research team
Alfred Hermida Phd
ProfessorSchool of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
Mary Lynn Young Phd
ProfessorSchool of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
Vinita Srivastava
Director of InnovationSenior Editor: Culture + Society, The Conversation Canada
Theme news
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…
Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young’s new book explores multiple critiques of journalism.
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…
Theme publications
- Journalism Innovation in a Time of Survival
Hermida, Alfred and Young, Mary Lynn (2021). Journalism Innovation in a Time of Survival. In News Media Innovation Reconsidered, Maria Luengo and Susana Herrera-Damas (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell. - The Conversation Canada: A Case Study of a Not for Profit Journalism in a Time of Commercial Media Decline
Young, Mary Lynn & Hermida, Alfred (2020). In Dubois, Elizabeth and Martin-Bariteau, Florian (eds.), Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda, Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press.