Valerie Belair-Gagnon

Director, Minnesota Journalism Center

Belair-Gagnon was on the panel “Mental health and the wellbeing of journalists in an era of online harassment, extreme polarization, denialism and pandemic” at ISOJ 2022. Watch her presentation here.

Valerie Belair-Gagnon@journoscholar
Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. Her research interests are media innovation, engagement, sociology of work, well-being, and the business of journalism. She is co-author of The Paradox of Connection (forthcoming) and Journalism Research that Matters (2021), and author of Social Media at BBC News (2015).