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Bob
Bergen received his Ph.D. from the Center for Military and Strategic
Studies at the University of Calgary in 2005. He holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and a
Master of Communications Studies degree from the University of
Calgary.
His Ph.D. thesis topic researched the Canadian air force participation
in the Kosovo air war and the Canadian military’s management of the
nation’s English-language news media during that war.
Bob is a former journalist who began his Ph.D. studies on a part-time
basis in May 1999. He left the Calgary Herald in July 2000
after 20 years to pursue his Ph.D. full-time. He began specializing in
writing about the Canadian Armed Forces in the mid-1970s at The
Albertan. His work revealing Canadian soldiers in Calgary were on
provincial welfare roles prompted federal changes to the Forces
housing policies and won The Albertan a Governor-General’s
citation for Meritorious Public Service in Canadian Journalism in
1979.
He joined the Calgary Herald in 1980. In addition to his
domestic work, his coverage of the Forces included assignments on
United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization operations in
the Middle East (1977), Cyprus (1978), Cold War Europe (1978) and in
Croatia and Bosnia (1994). He also sat on the Editorial Boards of
both the Calgary Herald and The Albertan.
He attended the National Security Studies Course at National Defence
College (March –April 1992).
In 2001-2002 Bob was a media fellow with the Sheldon Chumir Foundation
for Ethics in Leadership. His research report “Exposing the Boss: A
Study in Canadian Journalism Ethics” examined ethical dilemmas
Canadian newspaper journalists face in an age of increasingly
concentrated ownership. It provided quantitative evidence that
diversity of ideas and opinion was seriously threatened in Southam’s
major daily newspapers by its CanWest owner’s national editorial
policies.
Keywords: Canadian Parliament, military deployments, the
Canadian Air Force during the Kosovo air war, media-military
relations, Canadian journalism ethics.
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