Robert A. Hackett

He has been a professor and researcher at the School of Communication in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since 1984.

His main areas of research include media activism, political communication and news analysis.

Since 1993, he has co-directed NewsWatch Canada [1], a news media monitoring project based at Simon Fraser University.

The research contributes to the analysis of emerging paradigms that challenge what he and his co-author coined as "the regime of objectivity" in North American journalism.

http://www.toda.org/publications/journals.html Peace journalism: the state of the art / Dov Shinar & Wilhelm Kempf (eds.)