Nicole Cohen

Nicole Cohen is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology Mississauga campus and the Faculty of Information. She is the author of Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), which received the 2017 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association, and with Greig de Peuter, New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists (Routledge, 2020). Her research has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Digital Journalism, Feminist Media Studies, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Journal of Communication, and The Communication Review.  

Her research interests include political economy of communication, work and labour in media and cultural industries, media and cultural worker organizing, media unions, journalism, and alternative media. She collaborates on the SSHRC-funded project Cultural Workers Organize.

• Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, Canadian Communication Association, 2017. Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).