Our Team

Aziz Douai

Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research
PhD (Mass Communications), Pennsylvania State University.

E-mail: [email protected]

Research interests
Disruptive communication technologies; terrorism and the media; global communications and conflict; media and crime; Middle Eastern and North African media and politics.

Mitch Diamantopoulos

Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator
BA Honours (Sociology and Psychology) and MA (Social Studies), University of Regina, PhD (Interdisciplinary Studies), University of Saskatchewan.

Office: AH 105.22
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 306-585-4092

Research interests

• Democratic philosophy and foundations of journalism
• Journalism history, particularly in 19^th Century Britain and on the Canadian Prairies
• Political economy of news media, including alternative media
• Media sociology and media cultural studies
• Media reform movements and innovative firm models for journalism, particularly news co-operation
• Cooperative studies, community economic development and the social economy
• The democratic role of journalism in an age of authoritarian populism

Darrell Davis

Dallas W Smythe Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest

Darrell earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Regina sometime in the 1970s, missed the submission deadline and officially convocated in 1980. He went on to work at the Regina Leader-Post for decades, has authored or co-authored six sports books, is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and is currently a “Wise Guy” on CJME/CKOM’s Green Zone.

Office: AH 105.25
E-mail: [email protected]