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D. Jasun Carr (PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison) is an Associate Professor at Idaho State University. He teaches courses in social media, content creation, and research methods. His ongoing research interests focus on persuasion, consumer culture, and civic engagement; the interaction of source and generational cohort in new media; and the changing journalistic and persuasive practices within social media platforms.
Ioana A. Coman (PhD, University of Tennessee) is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, USA. She teaches courses in public relations, journalism, and entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on how different actors engage and interact in risk and crisis communication situations. Coman has received national and international awards and grants for her research, including the Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar grant.
Raluca Cozma (PhD, Louisiana State University) Raluca Cozma is a Professor in the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communication at Kansas State University. Her research examines foreign correspondence and political communication and the role of social media in these fields. Her work has been published in venues such as the Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism Studies, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Daniela V. Dimitrova (PhD, University of Florida) is a Professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University and editor-in-chief of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship journal of AEJMC. Dimitrova has published research articles in the areas of global journalism and political communication in journals such as Communication Research, New Media & Society and the European Journal of Communication.
Elisabeth Fondren (PhD, Media & Public Affairs, Louisiana State University; MA, International Journalism, City University of London; BA Humanities, Heidelberg University) is an assistant professor of journalism at St. John’s University. She teaches courses in global journalism and media history. Her scholarship explores the history of international journalism, propaganda, media-military relations, and freedom of speech during wartime.
Zac Gershberg (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an Associate Professor at Idaho State University. He teaches courses in screenwriting, journalism, and media history, law, and ethics. His research examines the history of media, the ethics of journalism, and political communication.
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero (PhD, European University Institute) is Director of the Department of Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and member of Mexican Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on media’s role in new democracies, media and political attitudes, as well as social media, emotions and participation. He has published a number of book chapters, journal articles, and books on these topics and currently serves as Vice President of UNESCO’s Chairs in Communication (ORBICOM).
Lea Hellmueller (PhD, University of Fribourg) Lea Hellmueller is an Academic (Lecturer/Assistant Professor) at City, University of London. She also worked as a visiting research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in 2018 and as a visiting professor at the University of Zurich in 2017. Her research focuses on digital news innovations from a global perspective; political polarization on digital news platforms; right-wing populist journalism as transnational phenomena; and media and terrorism.
Yusuf Kalyango, Jr. (PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia) is an idependent researcher and former Director of the Institute for International Journalism at Ohio University, USA. He is author and co-editor of three scholarly books and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His research focuses on African media, international journalism, conflicts, democratization, rule of law, and global public diplomacy.
Christopher D. Karadjov (PhD, University of Florida) is an Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach. As a former journalist in Bulgaria and the United States, he teaches courses in reporting, data journalism, media law and global news media. His research concentrates on newsroom practices, online comments, media effects and global patterns of mis/disinformation. Karadjov continues to contribute to news and educational projects.
Anthony Kelly (PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science) is Digital Anthropologist at L’Atelier BNP Paribas. He has conducted research on participatory political communication, affective polarization, and the commercialization of news. His recent publications examine the performativity of online outrage and the discursive production of institutional authority among European news agency executives.
Nakho Kim (PhD, Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an Assistant Professor in Communication at the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg. His primary research interests are news ecosystems and participatory journalism.
Claudia Kozman (PhD, Indiana University) is an assistant professor of multimedia journalism at the Lebanese American University. Her research primarily focuses on news content, with particular attention to news values, sourcing, and framing in Arab media. She is interested in media coverage of conflict in the Middle East as well as public opinion and perceptions during political turmoil.
Dean Kruckeberg (PhD, University of Iowa), APR, Fellow PRSA, is co-author of This Is PR: The Realities of Public Relations; Public Relations and Community: A Reconstructed Theory; and Transparency, Public Relations, and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide. His honors include the PRSA Atlas Award for Lifetime Achievement in International Public Relations, the PRSA Outstanding Educator Award, the Pathfinder Award of the Institute for Public Relations, and the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Research Prize.
Suman Lee (PhD, Syracuse University) is associate professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on international public relations, public diplomacy, and international communication. Before joining academia, Lee worked for Samsung as public relations professional.
Patric Raemy (PhD, University of Fribourg) is a senior researcher and teaching associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Fribourg. He also worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, as a senior researcher at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training and as a lecturer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. His research interests focus on journalistic culture, professional roles and identity, (vocational) education and training in face of digital transformation, and media literacy.
Terhi Rantanen (LicSc, DocSc, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rantanen’s research areas include global news media organizations. She has published extensively on media globalization and global news transmissions.
Elad Segev (PhD, Keele University) is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University. He studies the relationship between information and power from cross-national perspectives, focusing on global information flows, country image, Americanization and globalization, international news, information search and search strategies, and the digital divide, often utilizing data mining and network analysis techniques.
Katerina Tsetsura (PhD, Purdue University), is internationally known for her work in media transparency and global public relations. She has over 80 peer-reviewed publications, is a co-author of Transparency, Public Relations, and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide (Taylor & Francis, 2017), and a co-editor of Strategic Communications in Russia (Taylor & Francis, 2021). Tsetsura serves on editorial boards of Communication Theory and International Journal of Strategic Communication, among others.
Tudor Vlad (PhD, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) is the director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia. He has been a consultant to Gallup, The New York Times, Freedom House, and the Russian Journalists Union. His research focuses on journalism education, press freedom evaluations, the role of media in emerging democracies and the relationship between mass media academic curricula and the labor market.
Jane Whyatt is a veteran broadcast journalist, journalism educator and press freedom campaigner. She has taught journalism at London’s major universities and published research on the female news agenda and the news habits of teenagers. Whyatt’s recent experience includes work at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, an independent co-operative that monitors media freedom across Europe.
H. Denis Wu (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is a professor of communication at Boston University, USA. He conducts research in international and political communication and has co-authored three books on the interplay between media and politics. Wu recent research focuses on the roles emotion and social media play in cross-national communication and electoral process.