Richard Gruneau, PhD, is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, where he teaches in the areas of mass media and popular culture, cultural studies, and the political economy of communication. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts.
Professor Gruneau is the coauthor of The Missing News: Filters and Blindspots in Canada's News Media. He is also the coauthor, with David Whitson, of Hockey Night in Canada: Sport, Identities, and Cultural Politics. In addition, he has edited or coedited four other books and is the author of more than forty book chapters, scholarly articles, and research papers.
Professor Gruneau has been principal researcher, coresearcher, or consultant to several nationally funded research projects in Canada. These studies include examining and exposing neglected issues in the Canadian news media, a study of television sports production in Canada, and government sport policy in Canada. He is also the originator and academic editor of a recent book series entitled Culture and Communication in Canada.
The author currently serves on the editorial boards of three scholarly journals: Body and Society, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, and The Canadian Journal of Communication.