Cerasel Cuteanu has joined the Media and Journalism Research Center’s Fellowship Program. Currently immersed in the pursuit of a PhD in Marketing at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, Cuteanu’s research revolves around the intricate web of fake news, a major topic in today’s information age. Under the umbrella of joint supervision with Saint Paul…
Yijing Chen, a PhD candidate at the Department of Network and Data Science, at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, has joined our fellowship program. Her research centers around online political communication, social media, and social networks. With her background in Information Science, she is currently investigating the role of social media in political…
Investigator: Simone Benazzo, ULB On 13 April 2023, El Faro, a Salvadorian media outlet, announced that it had taken a decision with far-reaching consequences. After operating for a quarter of a century in its home country, the newsroom has chosen to register in Costa Rica as a non-profit Fundación Periódica, citing “the dismantling of democracy,…
Simone Benazzo has joined the Media and Journalism Research Center’s Fellowship Program. The focus of his research project at MJRC is on investigating the active role that critical journalism can play in holding autocratic rulers to account, even under hostile conditions. His research will focus on Central and Southeastern Europe, a region where he will…
Dr. Courtney Radsch, a fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Technology, Law & Policy has joined Media and Journalism Research Center’s fellowship program. As a strategic advisor and global thought leader on the intersection of technology, media, and human rights, Dr. Radsch has a long experience as a journalist, scholar, and press freedom advocate. Throughout her work, which…
Anastasiia Vorozhtsova, an MA graduate in international relations from CEU with academic and professional experiences in Russia, the United States of America, and Austria, has joined our Fellowship program. Anastasiia is a freelancer at The New York Times Podcast The Daily, where she has been monitoring news coverage of Russia and the war in Ukraine, conducting…
Dr Andrei Richter, Researcher Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava and Adjunct Professor of the Webster University in Vienna has joined our Fellowship program. Dr Richter has served as Director and a Senior Adviser at the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2011-2022. He has authored more than 250 publications on media law and policy in 12 languages,…
Fatima el Issawi has joined the Fellowship Program at the Media and Journalism Research Center. The focus of her research project at MJRC is to continue investigating the media activism nexus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how the notion of resilience in the dynamics between dissenting actors in media and activism…
Sulochana Peiris, an independent documentary maker, researcher, and writer based in Sri Lanka, has joined our Fellowship program. Sulochana has over two decades of experience in media, advocacy, and peace-building fields. During early career years, Sulochana worked as a print and TV journalist, and subsequently, switched over to the not-for-profit sector where she was involved…
David Ruzicka has joined the Fellowship Program at the Media and Journalism Research Center where he will continue researching the problem of arbitrariness in the enforcement (or rather the lack of it) of ethical and legal standards like accuracy and impartiality in Visegrad Four countries. David Ruzicka is the Founding Editor of Datalyrics, a Prague-based…