Mary-Lynn Young
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About Mary-Lynn Young
Mary Lynn Young, PhD, is an associate professor, award-winning academic, university educator and a member of the launch team of The Conversation Canada, a non-profit academic journalism affiliate of the global Conversation network. She is former associate dean (communications and strategy), Faculty of Arts (2011-2016), director of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism (2008-2011), and acting director (June-December 2007).
Her current research projects include the impact of data journalism on news norms, practices and organizational routines, and does gender matter in a journalism startup.
Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media
What can the events surrounding Colten Boushie’s death, the trial verdict and its media coverage tell us about the role of journalism and journalists in relation to Indigenous concerns in Canada? All too much, write journalism professors Candis Callison and Mary-Lynn Young.