Ramón Salaverría, chair [rsalaver [at] unav.es]
School of Communication, University of Navarra
Pamplona, Spain

He holds a PhD in journalism from the University of Navarra, where he is the Director of the Journalistic Projects Department. He is Senior Lecturer of new media and newswriting, and is involved in several research projects about online journalism. His most recent books are Integrated Journalism (2009), Redacción periodística en internet (2005) and Cibermedios (2005). [ + info ]

Georgios Terzis, vice-chair [georgios.terzis [at] vub.ac.be]
Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

He is Associate Professor at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK. He is the founding Chair of the Journalism Studies Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association. His research focuses on European media governance, journalism education in Europe and the development of Pan-European media. . [ + info ]

Thomas Hanitzsch, vice-chair [hanitzsch [at] ifkw.lmu.de]
Professor of Communication, University of Munich
Munich, Germany

A former journalist, his teaching and research focuses on global journalism cultures, crisis and war communication, tabloid and celebrity news, as well as comparative methodology. He was the founding Chair of the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association and is the co-editor of the Handbook of Journalism Studies (2009) and the Handbook of Comparative Communication Research (2011). [ + info ]