SSHRC funds Canadian Worlds of Journalism Study

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has funded the Canadian Worlds of Journalism Study through a SSHRC Insight Grant for four years starting May, 2015. The Study will centre on standardized telephone interviews of 350+ anglophone and francophone Canadian journalists, using the WJS global questionnaire and methodology, with local add-on questions, and 50 qualitative follow-up interviews. The principal investigator is Ivor Shapiro of Ryerson University’s School of Journalism. The co-investigators are Geneviève Bonin of uOttawa’s Department of Communication and Heather Rollwagen of Ryerson’s Department of Sociology.