Half a Century of UQAM Research on Journalism: Current Situation and Future Prospects
This article draws a map of UQAM research on journalism. We first return to the beginnings of journalism teaching in the 1970s, until the official creation of a full-fledged undergraduate degree in journalism in 1995. We then carry out a review of the research literature in four sectors: research on content and representations; those on the conditions of production of information and on journalistic practices (the political economy of journalism); those on power relations between journalists and their sources; and finally the investigations of reflective practitioners. We conclude that the UQAM journalism studies are rich, plural and diverse on the one hand, and relatively dispersed on the other, and that it would be relevant to encourage more dialogue between teaching and research, but also between researchers.