Christopher Waddell

 B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (York)

Associate Professor and Director (Journalism and Communication)

Office: 311 St. Patrick's, 613-520-2600 x 8495

E-mail: chris_waddell [at] carleton [dot] ca

Languages spoken other than English: French

Research fields: financial journalism, political journalism

Expertise:
• government budgets
• journalism/media and public policy
• election campaigns and coverage
• public opinion polling

Selected publications:

“Policy and Partisanship on the Campaign Trail: Mulroney Works his Wonder, Twice,” Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney, ed. Raymond B. Blake, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007, Ch. 1 (pp. 16–41).

Financial Services and Public Policy: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Schulich School of Business National Research Program in Financial Services and Public Policy (editor), John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy in co-operation with McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.

“Erasing the Line: Rebuilding Economic and Trade Relations after September 11,” Canada Among Nations 2003: Coping with the American Colossus, ed. David Carment, Fen O. Hampton, and Norman Hillmer, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Short biography:

Christopher Waddell is the Director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication and holds the School’s Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism.

He joined Carleton in July 2001 after ten years at CBC Television News. From 1993 to 2001, he was the network’s Parliamentary Bureau Chief in Ottawa. From 1995 to 2001 he was also Executive Producer of News Specials for CBC Television, responsible for all national news specials and federal and provincial election and election-night coverage during those years. Between 1984 and 1991 he was at the Globe and Mail where he served in a number of positions, including reporter in Report on Business, economics reporter in Ottawa covering, among other things, the Canada-U.S. free-trade negotiations, and Ottawa bureau chief during the 1988 federal election. In the period from 1990 to 1991 he was associate editor and then national editor of the paper.

Professor Waddell has won two National Newspaper Awards for business reporting and programs he supervised at CBC Television and six Gemini awards for television excellence. He received his Ph.D. in Canadian history from York University in Toronto in 1981, completing a thesis on price and wage controls and consumer rationing in Canada during World War II.