Lisa Taylor

Lisa Taylor holds the Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, N.S.

Taylor, a former practicing lawyer and CBC journalist, researches and writes about issues at the intersection of law and journalism. She is the co-editor of, and a contributing author to, The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada, published by the University of Toronto Press. She is also the co-author of “The Process is the Punishment: Criminal Libel and Political Speech in Canada” (https://doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2018.1467155), published in Communication Law and Policy, which offers an empirical analysis of the resurgence of the charge of criminal defamatory libel in Canada.

Taylor’s past journalistic work has earned recognition from the Geminis, the Atlantic Journalism Award, B’nai Brith Canada and the Yorkton Film Festival.

Currently, Taylor leads the Canadian Worlds of Journalism Study, an interdisciplinary research group that, together with research teams from more than 100 countries, provides data-informed assessments of the global state of journalism.