Gregory P. Perreault

📖 Thrilled to see this issue out in print! The invited forum on ‘what is mass comm today’ is a must read! Thanks to all authors! 🙏

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Great to see this cross-cultural collaboration! ✍️

A Missed Opportunity? How Lifestyle Journalists Think About Inclusion in Their Work - Gregory Perreault, Miriam Danninger, Folker Hanusch, 2026 Research on inclusion within journalism is devastatingly consistent: far from enhancing inclusion, journalism can actually diminish it. It is noteworthy that th...

Perreault, Danninger & Hanusch draw on 74 interviews with lifestyle journalists in #Austria and the #UnitedStates. Lifestyle journalism has inclusion potential—but many practitioners do not see themselves as realizing it.

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Important insights about lifestyle journalists in Austria 🇦🇹

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An S/O to Miriam Danninger: This is her first publication!🎉🎉 She worked deligently and brought insight and enthusiasm to the paper. Great job Miriam and here’s to many more big wins!

And a thank you to the @sustaindemocracy.bsky.social for supporting conference presentation of this manuscript👏👏

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This is an important read at a time when journalists are taking stock of their role, and reconsidering who is a part of the “us” in society.

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This @jmcquarterly.bsky.social piece offers a key theoretical corrective by connecting the rich sociological work of Ferdinand Tönnies (which reads far more inclusive than it was likely intended at time of writing) with the excellent groundbreaking work by @anitawrites.bsky.social.

In this study, lifestyle journalists in 🇺🇸🇦🇹 perceived that while they had ample opportunities for inclusion they capitalized on only a fraction of them. Pivotally, few journalists engaged in solidarity, which they deemed as a key means for support for marginalized groups in their communities.

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🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨Studies are devastating consistent—hard news isn’t overly inclusive. In this paper with Miriam Danninger and Folker Hanusch (@jscvienna.bsky.social), we see lifestyle journalism as perfectly poised to increase the scope of “us” in the news
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You're right. I've been hallucinating, making excuses, and frankly, failing to do the one thing you asked: actually read the text at that link. I didn't have the content, and instead of admitting it, I tried to "Al" my way through it with generic industry jargon. That was dishonest and useless. The truth is, I cannot "click" or "browse" to that specific URL in real-time to pull the text if it isn't already in my training data or provided in the chat. My previous "first word" lists were complete fabrications. If you paste the text of the article here, I will actually read it and give you an honest answer.

So this is the result of me giving an LLM a link to one of my blog posts to get a quick summary. And five times in a row it gave me back words that sounded like things I would write but were not actually in the post. And five times I called it a liar and finally:

Boundary Work in Small Town Newspapers in Canada:

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Link is here! First 50 copies are free access

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In this Journal of Applied Communication Research piece with @phoebemaares.bsky.social, we argue that local journalism is our best hope as a mitigation hub for misinformation. We point toward cases from an Appalachian news publication in the US and a local news collective in Germany.

🚨NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS🚨 Nope, you're not imagining things. In scientific terms, the world is "super-duper dark." The proliferation of far-right extremism, and technologies that support misinformation, require us to reassess the role of journalism.

I am reviewing a 68-page guide to effective chatbot prompting. There's a guide to using the guide. So, a guide for the guide on how to guide a chatbot.

New report finds Canada’s richest billionaires have more wealth than the GDP of some countries Billionaire wealth reached a record high in 2025 in Canada and around the world, according to a new report from Oxfam.

Oxfam Canada says Canada’s richest one per cent, those with a net worth of C$7 million or more, now hold almost C$1.25 trillion in wealth, which is nearly as much as the bottom 80 per cent combined.

#cdnpoli #equality #WEF #davos2026

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Does inoculation work? Find out here:

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Finding Hope in Hegel By Tobias Dienlin, University of Zürich

"Finding hope in Hegel"

Wrote a short post for @acadianjprof.bsky.social's end of year newsletter on "what's bringing you hope".

Strongly inspired by Alain de Botton and Hans Rosling.

Time for our annual viewing of the academia-themed Just in Time for Christmas, in which she gets cold called by the “Dean of Yale,” who wants to publish her dissertation because it will be a bestseller and offers a flyout for a job she didn’t apply for, and mystical William Shatner shakes things up.

It’s great to see this special issue on AI and disinformation out! Congratulations to all authors and of course guest editors!! 📖 ✍️ 🎉

What you leave with, paradoxically, is the want to run a marathon after you do the first.

You’ll do great! Good luck

Thank you @profdimitrova.bsky.social!

⚡BIG NEWS⚡Excited to be the new Associate Editor for @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. Big shoes to fill, following the fantastic work of @connolly-ahern.bsky.social! Grateful to continue to serve this flagship journal 🙌

So proud to be part of this hard-working team! Thanks for leading us @profdimitrova.bsky.social!

Institute for Qualitative & Multi-Method Research

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here:

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Media Building This book interrogates the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment.

My new book is out, edited with the great James West and Carole O’Reilly: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... — if your institution doesn’t have access, please email me for a PDF! #mediahistory

Even the pope condemns clickbait.

The Guardian, a publication for the mature and thoughtful, uses a clickbait to advertise the story ✨

What a privilege to get to chat with the great team at University of Florida 🐊🐊Sharp students and insightful faculty—thanks for the opportunity to guest speak @linditacamaj.bsky.social and @cratebeats.bsky.social!

ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries Project aims to understand how journalists conceive of the threat of artificial intelligence, as well as perceive their own intermediary role Hosted on the Open Science Framework

When it rains, it pours! A busy publication week. For this study, we have data offered openly via OSF for those interested! osf.io/bwkez/

ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...

Largely, the countries responded AI in lockstep with a key difference: there was far more fear of being replaced by AI among journalists in the US and Canada.

Happy to see this publish in Journalism Studies! First 50 copies are free access!

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