Colette Brin

Biography

Colette Brin has a wide-angle vision of journalism and her fields of interest are numerous. She studies the transformations of journalistic practices, is interested in the diversity of contents and the convergence of newsrooms, the organization of work and the means used to facilitate organizational changes. In recent years, she has focused on local and regional information, relations between journalists and the courts, and public information practices. A faculty member since 2001, Colette Brin is now a full professor and director of the Center for Media Studies. Her career led her from a Bachelor of Information and Communication in Moncton to a PhD in Political Science in Laval. Between these two degrees, she worked for many years as a journalist in St. Boniface. She works in print media for the regional weekly La Liberté, a television journalist with Radio-Canada, and spends five years on CBC radio where she gets her tenure. The desire to pursue higher education brought her back to Quebec City where she began a master's degree in public communication and then a doctorate in political science. Colette Brin's training combined with her journalistic experience largely explains her research and teaching interests (she has taught courses in writing, radio and information-gathering practices, as well as in methodology and on the theories of communication). She is a past president of the Canadian Association of Communication (2012-2014) and regularly speaks in the media and in journalism, communication and policy-making circles.

Research Interest

"Political journalism in 140 characters