Webinar: Connecting Journalism Research with Practice
It is now well-established that the long-time economic model on which the news industry has relied is no longer sustainable. Facebook, Google, and declining levels of popular trust in the media have been major contributors to this situation. Simultaneously, the closure of local media outlets across the country has left many areas without access to regional news, compounded the distance between media and publics, and further eroded civic engagement. Despite the looming crisis in journalism, a research-practice gap plagues the news industry.
This Q&A event launches the book Journalism Research that Matters by Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Nikki Usher (eds.). Among other things, it will discuss how scholars must think about their work in a public context, and journalists, too, need to listen to media scholars and take the research that they do seriously. Moderated by Cindy Royal
Presented by the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication.