May 2018
Canadian WJS co-investigator to represent Canadian research team at a meeting of the international WJS consortium in Prague
Representatives of an estimated 60+ countries will gather in Prague at the end of May to plan for the “third wave” of the Worlds of Journalism study. Participants will discuss funding as well as the broader theoretical framework of the next WJS survey, which is expected to be deployed in 2019-20. In addition, topic-specific working […]
Canadian Communication Association research note explores journalists’ role as monitors of government and business elites
Canadian journalists overwhelmingly seed themselves as monitors of political and business interests, and resist an identity of supporters of government policy, according to a new research note published by the Canadian Communication Association. These findings are drawn from data collected as part of the Canadian Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS), which explores how journalists orient […]