2020

What does journalism look like when lies trump truth, clicks control the news, and layoffs abound? After Fact (2020) is an unvarnished, observational portrait of real-life news work in Canada. A broadcast investigative journalist juggles covering an unsolved celebrity-murder story against a policy chasm that costs schoolchildren’s lives.

Dr. Nicole Blanchett has joined the CWJS team of investigators for the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. A former news producer, Nicole was appointed in May 2020 as an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. specializing in multiplatform journalism and production. Her current research focuses on the use […]

Data from the completed Worlds of Journalism Study phases is now available to all researchers for secondary analysis. The data includes the responses of more than 27,500journalists in 67 countries (including Canada) to a common questionnaire, administered under a common methodological framework. The questionnaire used from 2012 to 2016 elicited views of journalists on several issues […]

The Worlds of Journalism Study has entered its “third wave” (WJS3). The Study began in 2007, with teams in 21 countries conducting structured interviews until 2011 to probe journalists’ perceptions of their roles, values, ands professional identities.  In the “second wave” (2012-2016) teams in 67 countries interviewed 27,500 journalists. Planning for WJS3 has included teams […]