Gregory Perreault

Faculty Associate

Professor of Journalism & Creative Media, University of Alabama

gpperreault@ua.edu

Bio

Gregory P. Perreault is a scholar of adaptation in journalism. His work focuses on journalistic epistemology, hostility in journalism and managing labor expectations.

He currently serves as associate editor for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. He served as Fulbright-Botstiber Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of Vienna Journalism Studies Center (2020-2021) and is past chair for the standing committee on research for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). His work appears in New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. His book Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate (Routledge) was published in 2023.

He serves as associate director for the Center for Sustainable Democracy at the University of South Florida. He now serves as professor and department chair at the University of Alabama Department of Journalism & Creative Media.

With the Public Tech Media Lab, he is interested in pursuing research on the disconnection between the infrastructure of AI (e.g., data centers) and the public face of AI prompting, as well as studies on journalistic adaptation to generative AI.