Historian.
She is Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal. She specializes in twentieth-century English Canadian intellectual, cultural and media history. In addition to a number of articles in these areas, she is the author of Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting, 1922-1932 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992) and The Mass Media in Canada (James Lorimer, 3rd edition, 2000). She is currently [2008] engaged in a study of censorship and propaganda at the CBC during the Second World War.
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
CKY Winnipeg in the 1920s: Canada’s Only Experiment in Government Monopoly Broadcasting
Manitoba History, Number 12, Autumn 1986Public Service Broadcasting and Winnipeg Listeners in the 1930s
Manitoba History, Number 57, February 2008
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