Scholarly Publications (selected)

Books:

In Progress. Digital media workers: Organizing to democratize journalism. Under advance contract with the University of Illinois Press.

2016. Gasher, M., Brin, C., Crowther, C., King, G., Salamon, E., & Thibault, S. (Eds.). Journalism in crisis: Bridging theory and practice for democratic media strategies in Canada. University of Toronto Press.


Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

2025.  Communicating a local journalism crisis online: How media workers frame industry changes. Digital Journalism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2434917

2025. Peripheral creator labor: Navigating regional marginalization and resistance in social media entertainment. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241308520

2024. Salamon, E., & Saunders, R. Domination and the arts of digital resistance in social media creator labor. Social Media + Society, 10(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241269318

2024. Happiness in newsroom contracts: Communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction. Media, Culture & Society, 46(2), 252–271. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231191353

2024. Managing and resisting workplace reorganization: Labor-management relations in a pre-digital media corporation. Journalism, 25(2), 334–352. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221138727

2023. Converging media unions: A labor history of newsworkers in a predigital age. International Journal of Communication, 17(2023), 5574–5586. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21435/4310

2023. Media unions’ online resistance rhetoric: Reproducing social movement genres of organizational communication. Management Communication Quarterly, 37(2), 368–395. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221097067 

2023. Communicative labor resistance practices: Organizing digital news media unions and precarious work. Communication Theory, 33(4), 186–196. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtac023

2020. Digitizing freelance media labor: A class of workers negotiates entrepreneurialism and activism. New Media & Society, 22(1), 105–122. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819861958

2018. Temporary labor convergence: Newsworkers mobilize massive community support to organize the newspaper chain, 1963-1966. Journalism Studies, 19(12), 1730–1749. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1301780

2018. The ‘free press’ of unionized journalists and students: An alternative journalistic collaboration. Journalism Practice, 12(5), 565–584. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1335607

2017. The audience ‘talking back’: Alan M. Thomas’ educational television experiment in democratic decision making. Canadian Journal of Communication, 42(1), 131–137. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2017v42n1a3092

2016. E-lancer resistance: Precarious freelance journalists use digital communications to refuse rights-grabbing contracts. Digital Journalism, 4(8), 980–1000. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2015.1116953

2015. (De)valuing intern labour: Journalism internship pay rates and collective representation in Canada. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 13(2), 438–458. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v13i2.573


Book Chapters:

2023. Supporting digital job satisfaction in online media unions’ contracts. In V. Belair-Gagnon, A. E. Holton, M. Deuze, & C. Mellado (Eds.), Happiness in journalism (pp. 87–95). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003364597-12

2018. Precarious e-lancers: Freelance journalists’ rights, contracts, labor organizing, and digital resistance. In S. A. Eldridge II & B. Franklin (Eds.), The routledge handbook of developments in digital journalism studies (pp. 186–197). Routledge.

2016. Salamon, E., King, G., Crowther, C., & Thibault, S. Conclusion: Strategies forward – A future for journalism in Canada. In M. Gasher, C. Brin, C. Crowther, G. King, E. Salamon, & S. Thibault (Eds.), Journalism in crisis: Bridging theory and practice for democratic media strategies in Canada (pp. 266–278). University of Toronto Press.

2016. Crowther, C., Thibault, S., Salamon, E., & King, G. Introduction: Whose crisis? Journalism is not just for journalists and policy is not just for wonks. In M. Gasher, C. Brin, C. Crowther, G. King, E. Salamon, & S. Thibault (Eds.), Journalism in crisis: Bridging theory and practice for democratic media strategies in Canada (pp. 3–23). University of Toronto Press.


Encyclopedia and Textbook Entries:

2024. The political economy of news media and journalism. In M. Powers (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1531

2022. Labor unions in media. In G. A. Borchard (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of journalism (2nd ed., pp. 912–915). SAGE. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n224

2020. Precarious labour. In M. Gasher, D. Skinner, & N. Coulter (Eds.), Media & communication in Canada: Networks, culture, technology, audiences (9th ed., p. 242). Oxford University Press.

2019. Freelance journalists and stringers. In T. P. Vos, F. Hanusch, D. Dimitrakopoulou, M. Geertsema-Sligh, & A. Sehl (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0228


Commentary Articles and Reports: 

2024. Negotiating technological change: How media unions navigate artificial intelligence in journalism. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 26(2), 159–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/15226379241239758

2023. Industry briefing: Levelling up the social media creator economy. Screen Industries Growth Network. https://screen-network.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/58947_Errol-Salamon-Industry-Briefing_Web_HR.pdf

2023. Levelling up social media content creator labour: Lights, camera, policy action! Industry report. Screen Industries Growth Network. https://screen-network.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Creator-Labour-FINAL.pdf

2019. Learning to diversify the media labour force. Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, 8(2), 19–23. https://www.synoptique.ca/_files/ugd/811df8_d53f15fc9ed844ff81ca09983b61c07f.pdf


Book Reviews:

2015. Review of the book Making national news: A history of Canadian Press, by G. Allen. Canadian Journal of Communication, 40(4), 737–740.

Data Sets:

2024. Timeline of online unionization announcements by news media unions in the United States, April 2015–December 2022 (Version V1) [Data set]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22814612.v1