Nicole S. Cohen

Nicole S. Cohen is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology 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).

Nicole researches in the area of political economy of communication, work and labour in the media and cultural industries, media and cultural worker organizing, and gender, race, and work in journalism. Nicole collaborates on the SSHRC-funded project Cultural Workers Organize and, with de Peuter and Brophy, is writing a book on cultural workers’ collective responses to precarity for Pluto Press.

Nicole’s academic research has been published internationally in books, journals, and magazines, including South Atlantic Quarterly, The Communication Review, Communication, Culture and Critique, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Feminist Media Studies, the Canadian Journal of Communication, and Frieze. Her co-authored article with Greig de Peuter and Enda Brophy — “Interns Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose (Literally)”— won the 2013 CWA Canada/CAJ Award For Labour Reporting.

Nicole currently serves as Vice-President of the Canadian Communication Association.