Dr. Nicole Blanchett

Dr. Nicole Blanchett is an associate professor of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University, researching journalistic roles and the impact of technology on practice. A former television journalist, she heads the SSHRC funded Canadian Journalistic Role Performance team, is a leader in the SSHRC funded Explanatory Journalism project, is co-director of the Local News Research Project, co-director of the SSHRC funded Documenters Canada expansion team, a member of the team of the SSHRC-funded The Political Accountability, Transparency, and Representation Oversight Network (PATRON), and a member of Canada's Worlds of Journalism Study. She is on the editorial board of the online journal Facts and Frictions. Her research has been published widely, including in Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies. She has also presented her work extensively at journalism and sociology conferences in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

• Journalistic roles, metrics and analytics and the use of AI in journalism settings
• Newsroom practice
• Definitions of journalism and journalists
• Media logic
• Field theory
• Boundary work

• Principal investigator of the Journalistic Role Performance project in Canada
• A leader of TMU's Explanatory Journalism project
• Co-director of the Local News Research Project
• Co-director of the Documenters Canada expansion team
• A member of The Political Accountability, Transparency, and Representation Oversight Network (PATRON)
• A member of Canada's Worlds of Journalism Stud
• A member of the editorial board of the online journal Facts and Frictions
• Published widely in a variety of top-ranked journals

• Dean’s Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Award, 2024, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.
• One of the leading authors on a paper nominated as the best article published in top-ranked academic journal Digital Journalism in 2024: Does News Platform Matter? 
• Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television.

• Quantifying quality: Negotiating audience participation and the value of a digital story at Norway’s public broadcaster, Journalism Practice (2020) (external link) 

• Seymour Hersh, Twitter, and a lesson in “off the record,” J-Source (2014) (external link) 
• Metrics and analytics in the newsroom: An ethnographic study exploring how audience data are changing practice (2019).Thesis (Ph.D.). Bournemouth University (external link) 

• Can Analytics Save Local Newspapers?” (2019). New Journalisms: Rethinking Practice, Theory and Pedagogy: 65-80. Routledge: London (external link) 

• CBC and the Science Academy: A participatory journey. Media Watch, (2013) 4(2), 224-235

• The Disconnect of Cancelling Connect with Mark Kelley, The Tyee (external link)