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PÉTER BAJOMI-LÁZÁR is professor of Mass Communication at the Budapest Business School. His latest monograph is Party colonisation of the media in central and Eastern Europe (Budapest & New York: The Central European University Press, 2014). His latest edited volume is Media in third-wave democracies: Southern and Central/Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective (Budapest & Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017). Contact:
bajomi-lazar.peter@uni-bge.hu
AUKSĖ BALČYTIENĖ, Ph.D., is professor of Journalism at the Department of Public Communications, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her research interests include comparative aspects in studying political communication and journalism cultures, media system change, the development of the European public sphere, and in- formation and communication policies, as well as online multicultural and multilingual journalism and Central and East European Studies. Contact: aukse.balcytiene@vdu.lt JUDIT BAYER is a researcher of media law and freedom of expression. She is an asso- ciate professor at the Budapest Business School, chief editor of the academic journal Media Researcher, and author of several books and papers in the field of new media regulation from a constitutional perspective. Contact: bayer.judit@uni-bge.hu LEEN D’HAENENS is a full professor in Communication Science at the Institute for Media Studies at the KU Leuven, where she teaches Western media policy, media and diversity, and analysis of media texts. Her research interests include digital media and youth, news media, media and ethnic minorities, and Western media policy and governance mechanisms. She is a member of the Euromedia Research Group and the editor of Communications at the European Journal of Communication Research.
Contact: leen.dhaenens@kuleuven.be
ANNA GLADKOVA is a senior researcher at the Chair of Media Theory and Econom- ics, and Director of the International Affairs Office at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is also co-vice chair of the Digital Divide Working Group in IAMCR. Anna has published on digital inequality, transformation of national media systems under digitalisation and other global processes, and the mass media of Russian ethnic groups. Contact: gladkova_a@list.ru
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WILLEM JORIS is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Studies at the KU Leuven, and guest professor in Communication Sciences at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). His research interests include news framing analysis, journalism studies, media policy, political communication, media and diversity, and Europe.
Contact: willem.joris@kuleuven.be
KRISTINA JURAITĖ, Ph.D., is a professor and the chair of the Department of Public Communication, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her research interests in- clude post-communist media transformations, media and news literacy, cultural com- munication, media discourse, and audience studies. Contact: kristina.juraite@vdu.lt QUINT KIK is a consultant and senior researcher at the Dutch Journalism Fund, The Hague. He has extensive knowledge of the Dutch media landscape, local and regional journalism, international press and media affairs, regulating issues, governance and auditing, and the music industry. Contact: quintkik@svdj.nl
DENIS MCQUAIL (1935-2017) was emeritus professor at the School of Communica- tion Research (ASCOR), University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton. He studied history and sociology at the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. He was a founding editor of the European Journal of Communication (EJC).
Furthermore, he was among the founding members of the Euromedia Research Group and its Honorary President. His latest books are Journalism and society (2013, Sage), Mass communication theory (6th edition, 2010, Sage), and Media accountability and freedom of publication (2003, Oxford University Press).
TRISTAN MATTELART is a professor at the French Institute of the Press (IFP) of the University of Paris 2 and a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM). He has edited various books on media trans- nationalisation and authored different articles on this subject for Global Media and Communication, International Journal of Communication, Journal of International Communication and Javnost/The Public.
WERNER A. MEIER is a retired media policy scholar from the University of Zürich and an active member of the local civil society. Together with Josef Trappel, he chairs the meetings of the Euromedia Research Group. Contact: wernera.meier@uzh.ch HALLVARD MOE is professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is interested in how media is critical to democracy, and is currently leading a project on public connection. Contact: Hallvard.Moe@uib.no
RALPH NEGRINE is emeritus professor of Political Communication at the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. Ralph has researched and published extensively in the field of political communication over the last two decades. While
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HANNU NIEMINEN has been dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a professor of Media and Communications Policy at the University of Helsinki since 2003. His research interests cover democratic theory, theory and history of the public sphere, and the role of media and information policy for democracy, on which themes he has published extensively. Contact: hannu.nieminen@helsinki.fi
CLAUDIA PADOVANI is associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Law, Politics and International Studies at the Univer- sity of Padova. She is director of the University Interdepartmental Center for Gender Studies and is involved in international initiatives on media and gender inequalities, including a UNESCO UnTWIn Network on Gender Media and ICT and an EU-funded Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries (AGEMI) project. Contact: claudia.
padovani@unipd.it
STYLIANOS PAPATHANASSOPOULOS is a professor at the Department of Commu- nication and Media Studies at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on European and Greek media, with particular reference to the development of news media and political communication. He has published several monographs, journal articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial boards of a number of international journals. Contact: spapath@media.uoa.gr
KARIN RAEYMAECKERS is a full professor in Communication Sciences at the Depart- ment of Communication Sciences of Ghent University. Her current research interests focus on media structures and journalism studies. She is a member of the Euromedia Research Group and a member of the editorial board of different scientific journals.
Alongside Peter Golding and Helena Sousa, she is co-editor of the Sage journal Euro- pean Journal of Communication. Contact: karin.raeymaeckers@UGent.be
JEANETTE STEEMERS is professor of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London. Her work has been funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She is currently working on an AHRC project that seeks to facilitate Arab-European dialogue on children’s screen content in an era of forced migration. Contact: jeanette.steemers@kcl.ac.uk
BARBARA THOMASS is professor for International Comparison of Media Systems at the Institute for Media Studies, University of Bochum, Germany. Her main fields of research are: media politics, international and intercultural communication, public service media, and media and journalism ethics. Contact: barbara.thomass@rub.de
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JOSEF TRAPPEL is professor of Media Policy and Media Economics at the Department for Communication Studies, University of Salzburg. Together with Werner A. Meier, he chairs the meetings of the Euromedia Research Group. The group’s latest books were Comparative media policy, regulation and governance in Europe. Unpacking the policy cycle (Intellect 2018), and European media in crisis. Values, risks and policies (Routledge 2015). Contact: josef.trappel@sbg.ac.at
JEREMY TUNSTALL is professor emeritus of Sociology at City University, London and is the author, co-author, and editor of 21 books. Currently, he is writing a book on London newspaper editors from 1820-2020.
SARA DE VUYST is a postdoctoral assistant and a member of the Center for Jour- nalism Studies at Ghent University in Belgium. Her research interests are feminist media studies and, more specifically, gender issues in relation to working conditions and technological innovation journalism. She is currently working on a postdoctoral research project exploring the online abuse of journalists from an intersectional per- spective. Contact: s.devuyst@ugent.be
ELENA VARTANOVA is the full professor, dean, and chair of Media Theory and Eco- nomics at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is also a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, member of the Presidential Council on the Russian Language, and President of the Russian National Association of Mass Media Researchers (NAMMI). Her research focuses on Russian and foreign media systems (Finnish, Scandinavian, British), media economics and media management, information society, digital divide, journalism and media theory, science communications, media education, and Russian language in media. Elena is a member of ICA, IAMCR, ECREA, EMMA, and the Euromedia Research Group.
Contact: evarta@mail.ru
