Our team snatched one of 18 transatlantic partnership grants in the Democracy – Governance- and Trust call for our project “An Exploration of Independent Journalism’s Epistemologies: Enhancing Democratic Resilience in the Age of Disinformation (EDIT)”!! Very happy to get the opportunity to work on this with amazing colleagues across the world. If you want to get a short insight- SFU School of Communication did a story about the project.
I am so happy to get the chance to do this work together with the superb Co-PIs Musawenkosi Ndlovu (University of Cape Town) and Professor Mel Bunce (City, University of London) and our fantastic collaborators! The project An Exploration of Independent Journalism’s Epistemologies: Enhancing Democratic Resilience in the Age of Disinformation (EDIT) brings together overall ten established and emerging researchers based in Brazil (Carlo José Napolitano, Beth Saad, Fernando Oliveira Paulino), Canada (Sarah Ganter), the Netherlands (Bruce Mutsvairo), South Africa (Musawenkosi Ndlovu, Sisanda Nkoala (PhD) Nkoala), UK (Professor Mel Bunce, Richard Fletcher) and USA (Silvio Waisbord) and is funded out of SSHRC, UKRI and NRF.
This is a typical case of how “never give up!” is often key in academia – two days before the deadline we lost one of our teams to administrative hurdles – which with these international grants are extremely high – as some of you will know. Just because I felt too much work had gone into this to give up – we did some tweaks to the proposal and submitted regardless and even managed to integrate everyone to some extent. It was extremely stressful and the unlikely happened – we got the funding!
Looking forward to being in dialogue with everyone on this team who has been incredibly patient and willing during the entire process. We will sure have lots to discuss and find out about independent journalisms! More to come, hopefully soon.