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Alfred Hermida
Associate Professor and Director, School of Journalism, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Alfred Hermida PhD is an associate professor and director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of The Conversation Canada. With more than two decades of experience in digital journalism, his research explores the transformation of media, with a focus on emerging news practices, media innovation, social media and data journalism. His most recent book co-authored with Mary Lynn Young, Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News (Routledge 2019), reveals how the growth of data journalism has been cultivated and sustained by professional identities, tools and technologies, and new forms of collaboration and computational thinking. He is author of Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters (DoubleDay, 2014), winner of the 2015 National Business Book Award, co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism (Sage, 2016). Alfred has a distinguished journalistic pedigree, honed through 16 years at BBC News, including four years as a correspondent in North Africa and the Middle East, before going on to be a founding daily news editor of the BBC News website in 1997.
