Nicole Blanchett, PhD

Dr. Nicole Blanchett is an associate professor of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University who studies newsroom practice, including the implementation and impact of technologies such as AI. She heads the Canadian Journalistic Role Performance team, is a leader in the SSHRC funded Exploratory Journalism project, is co-director of the Local News Research Project, part of the editorial team of the Local News Data Hub, and is a member of Canada’s Worlds of Journalism Study.

She is on the editorial board of the online journal Facts and Frictions, and acts as a reviewer for a number of other peer-reviewed publications. Her research has been published in Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies, among others, and she has presented her work extensively at journalism and sociology conferences in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She formerly worked as a television journalist.