Michael Bugeja (PhD, Oklahoma State University) is a Distinguished Professor of journalism at Iowa State University. He has published three books about technology and media ethics with Oxford University Press, the most recent being Interpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine. He twice won the Clifford Christians Award for research in media ethics.
D. Jasun Carr (PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison) is a 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.[Text Wrapping Break]
Ioana A. Coman (PhD, University of Tennessee) is an Associate 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) is a Professor and Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs and Engagement at 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 University 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. She is the recipient of multiple recognitions and awards.
Elisabeth Fondren (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an Associate Professor at St. John’s University in New York. She teaches courses in global reporting, political communication, and media history. Her scholarship explores the history of international journalism, propaganda, media-military relations, and freedom of speech during wartime.
Dren Gërguri (Ph.D., University of Prishtina) is a Lecturer at the Department of Journalism, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina,” a former TV journalist in Kosovo and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Houston, USA. He serves as an associate editor at the Central European Journal of Communication. His research focuses on the intersection of disinformation, political communication, media effects, and populism.
Zac Gershberg (PhD, Louisiana State University) is a 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 an academic and researcher at the Universidad Iberoamericana (MEX) and President of ORBICOM, the global network for UNESCO Chairs in Communication. His research focuses on media and democracy in Latin America, media and digital literacy, disinformation, polarization and participation in digital media, and the sociopolitical impact of AI and its regulation.
Lea Hellmueller (PhD, University of Fribourg) is an Associate Professor in Journalism and Associate Dean of Research at the School of Communication & Creativity at City, University of London. She is also an Affiliated Researcher with the Violence & Society Centre. She researches the role of media and journalism in a globalising world, focusing on precarities of freelancers and global ethical decision making in newsrooms, including questions around global risk journalism, social justice, and violence & media.
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 an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Fellow at University College Dublin. His research explores how emerging forms of mediated partisanship and digital news engagement intersect with the political economy of platformised cultural production. His current work focuses on the relationships between reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences.
Nakho Kim (PhD, 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 in Residence in Journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. She conducts comparative research on news content with a focus on political communication and sports in the Arab region. Specifically, she examines the media coverage of conflict and the public’s media uses during political turmoil through a media systems approach. Prior to joining academia, Kozman worked for 13 years as a sports reporter, editor, and anchor.
Teresa Krug (MPA, Columbia University) is an award-winning journalist and producer who has worked with the world’s biggest news outlets, including Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, CBS News and The Guardian.
Kyungsun Karen Lee (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an Assistant Professor at Zayed University, Dubai. She teaches courses in strategic communication and media storytelling. Her research focuses on how national actors engage with foreign publics to shape public opinion, and the role of social media in this process. Her works have been published in scholarly journals including Policy & Internet, International Journal of Communication, and International Communication Gazette.
Suman Lee (PhD, Syracuse University) is a 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. His recent research focuses on the multinational interactions of public opinion and international news. Before joining academia, he worked at Samsung as a public relations professional.
Patric Raemy (PhD, University of Fribourg) is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He teaches classes in communication theory, media education and research methods. His ongoing research interests focus on journalism cultures, journalistic roles, new technology in journalism, media literacy, and digital wellbeing.
Terhi Rantanen (MSc; LicSc; DocSc, Helsinki University) is a Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Since the beginning of her career, she has been conducting research on globalization and the media, and especially on news organizations but also on the history of knowledge production. Her new book Dead Men’s Tales: Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies was published by LSE Press in May 2024.
Elad Segev (PhD, Keele University) is an Associate Professor in International Communication at the DAN Department of Communication at 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 the digital divide. He employs data mining and network analysis techniques and explores new methods and applications in the social sciences.
Sara Shaban (PhD, University of Missouri) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism & Film at Seattle Pacific University. She is a critical/cultural scholar focused on the intersections between media, women’s social movements, and geopolitics in the Middle East. Shaban serves as Co-Research Chair of the AEJMC Critical Cultural Division and has published her work in the International Journal of Communication, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.
Benjamin Tetteh (MA, New York University) is a doctoral candidate at Syracuse University. An award-winning journalist, documentary and features producer and a critical scholar, he has held various positions in newsrooms including reporter and producer, host of the morning show and managing editor and his journalism career took him to newsrooms across Ghana, Senegal and in the U.S. His research focuses on the threats to journalistic editorial independence in Africa.
Teodora Trifonova (MA, Bulgarian National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts) is a doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia. She studies global media from a qualitative perspective, focusing on the cultural labor of foreign correspondents. Her other area of research is focused on media systems in Central-Eastern Europe. Trifonova has been a senior broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent for more than 14 years for bTV, one of the leading TV networks in Bulgaria.
Tudor Vlad (PhD, Babes-Bolyai University) 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.
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’s recent research focuses on the roles emotion and social media play in cross-national communication and electoral process.
Jimena Zárate-Velázquez (MA, Iberoamericana University) is an academic at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. She teaches courses on Design for Social Innovation, Design and Philosophy and Design Thinking.