Magda Konieczna

I am a PhD student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. My interests include local science reporting and news business models. Visit my (only moderately active) news business model blog, here.

I have a masters of journalism degree from the University of British Columbia. My thesis was about the gatekeeping role of online health publications, focussing on the unique way these publications use experts. You can see the abstract of my thesis here.

Before coming back to school in 2009, I was the municipal affairs reporter and blogger at the Guelph Mercury, a daily newspaper in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. You can visit the city hall blog I started, here. I have also been a copy editor, as well as the Mercury's crime reporter and the university reporter. I spent the first half of 2009 travelling and freelancing in my native Poland. Please visit my (inactive) travel blog, here.