Colette Brin is a Professor at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada and Director of Centre d’études sur les médias (CEM), a nonprofit research unit founded in 1992. Her research and teaching focus on recent and ongoing changes in journalism, through public policy and organizational initiatives, as well as citizens’ news practices. She leads the Canadian edition of the  Digital News Report. Prof. Brin is co-chair of the Arts, Media and Cultural Diversity Axis at OBVIA, an international responsible AI research network based in Quebec, and a member of several research teams in Quebec and Canada. She co-authors the Canada page of the Digital News Report.

Colette is a Visiting Fellow where she will be working on AI initiatives in public service media, as well as youth engagement with news.