Rebuilding Journalism
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon’s publicly engaged and empirical research has made contributions to the understanding of digital innovation and engagement in journalism. She studies digital media as structuring conditions of journalistic work, including how old and new actors adapt and respond to change in digital innovation, and the cultural forces of change in news organizations and the news industry. She is co-editor of Journalism Research That Matter (Oxford U Press, 2021), author of Social Media at BBC News (Routledge, 2015), and co-author of The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media Transforms Journalistic Labor (Illinois U Press, forthcoming 2022). She is currently working on a happiness in journalism project.