#54 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Workplace Happiness in the Media Industry with Valérie Bélair-Gagnon

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About Our Guest:
Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Associate Professor and Cowles Fellow in Media Management at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is also a Waldfogel Scholars of the College of Liberal Arts (2023-26) and McKnight Presidential Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a visiting researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University Department of Journalism and Media and fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests include: journalism, professions, knowledge production, and identity; digital labor and engagement; business and future of journalism; and happiness and well-being in work. She is the author of Happiness in Journalism , The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media is Changing Journalistic Labor, Journalism Research that Matters, and Social Media at BBC News. She was executive director and research scholar at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She also worked in communications in corporate and non-profit environments. Born in Montréal, she earned her PhD in from the University of London in Sociology.

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