Robert A. Hackett

Robert A. Hackett is a Canadian university professor and researcher. He has been a professor and researcher at the School of Communication in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since 1984. His main areas of research include media activism, political communication and news analysis. Since 1993, he has co-directed NewsWatch Canada [http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/newswatch/], a news media monitoring project based at Simon Fraser University.

He is also on the editorial board of several journals. He has conducted numerous media interviews and public talks, written policy briefs, and has helped to found several community-based media action and education initiatives, including Vancouver's annual Media Democracy Days. His work has been translated into Chinese, Serbian and Ukrainian. Provided by Wikipedia