This edited collection is a gem. Parsing the different longstanding traditions for doing journalism research, including the oftforgotten legacy of the US Midwest, it raises important questions about what kinds of research will matter in the future. In tracing how journalism research connects via topic, scholarship, and practice, it offers a creative and thoughtful engagement with what journalism research has been in the past and what it could be moving forward.
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and affiliated faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is also an affiliated fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Her research looks at how organizations adapt and respond to technology and how the business of journalism is changing the news media industry
and its role. She is the author of Social Media at BBC News and her research has been published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Symbolic Interaction, Digital Journalism and Nieman Journalism Lab, and Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is
a past fellow at the Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and OsloMet Digital Journalism fellow.
Nikki Usher is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media, with affiliate appointments in Communication and Political Science. Her research looks at the connections between elite news media, politics, and technology through the lens of production studies. She is the author of Making News at The New York Times, Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code, and News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. She is a past fellow at the Columbia
University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and an academic policy fellow with the Open Markets Institute.