Lunch and Learn: Understanding News Users

The Ryerson Journalism Research Centre is excited to present this talk by visiting scholar, Colette Brin.

Understanding News Users: Rebuilding journalism from citizens’ perspectives.
When: Friday, March 1. 12 p.m.
Where: Rogers Communications Centre, Room TBD.

All are welcome! Please RSVP on Facebook here.

Colette Brin is a Professor at Université Laval’s Département d’information et de communication and the Director of the Centre d’études sur les médias. Her research and teaching focus on recent and ongoing changes in journalistic practice, through policy and organizational initiatives, as well as journalists’ professional discourse. She recently co-edited Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and has published in various academic journals in North America and Europe, in French and English. Prof. Brin leads the Canadian team for the Digital News Report (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and served on the advisory panel for the Public Policy Forum’s Shattered Mirror report (2017). She is a member of the Groupe de recherche sur la communication politique (GRCP) and of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC).