The Facebook Journalism Project and the Google News Initiative’s era of dominance in the news industry, at least in its most recent iteration, has ended. Facebook has divorced itself from news, shut...
Taylor Owen
Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, the founding director of The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy, and an associate professor in the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. He is the host of the Big Tech podcast, a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation, a fellow at the Public Policy Forum, and sits on the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
His doctorate is from the University of Oxford and he has been a Trudeau and Banting scholar, an Action Canada Fellow and received the 2016 Public Policy Forum Emerging Leader award. He is the author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the co-editor of The World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink its Foreign Policies (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State (Columbia University Press, 2016).
For a few years now virtual reality, augmented reality and 360° video represent one of frontiers of experimentation for journalism. 2016 was the year in which many publishers and editors worldwide de...
Journalism after Snowden: the future of the free press in the surveillance state
In the age of heightened surveillance, the need for - and threat to - watchdog journalism has intensified, with Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified documents signaling what may become a new nor...
