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Adrian is a journalist based in Constanta, Romania. In 2022, he won the Best Local Press award and was nominated in the same year for the Best Debut category in the Superscrieri journalist competition. He has a degree in Journalism from the Ovidius University in Constanta.

Minna Aslama Horowitz is a Docent at the University of Helsinki and serves as the Head of Interaction for the research consortium DECA (opens in a new tab). In addition, she researches epistemic rights and European media policy, in particular those related to public service and media and information literacy. She is also a member of NORDIS, a hub of the European Digital Media Observatory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki and has taken part in several international research activities in the past decade.

Éva is the Coordinating Director of Mediaforum, the association of independent Hungarian media outlets. She is senior program officer at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest managing and supervising media and journalism related programs, and conducting research as a sociologist.

Alexandra is a Lecturer (PhD) in Journalism at Ovidius University of Constanța (UOC), Romania. Her main research interests include journalistic practices in print and digital media, fake news, and gender studies. She also teaches in the master's program Public Relations and Intercultural Development within the Faculty of Letters at UOC. She has over ten years of professional experience in the local press of Constanța. Over the years, she has published articles in „Dilema veche”, „Revista 22”, as well as on platforms coordinated by the Freedom House Romania Foundation. Together with Raluca Petre, she co-evaluated the Romanian translation of the UNESCO handbook Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation (2021). Since 2024, Ada Codău has been a member of the European Sociological Association (ESA).

Marius Dragomir is the director of the Media and Journalism Research Center and a researcher at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. His work covers media ownership, regulation, public service media and journalism’s business models. He has designed and led comparative research projects including Media Influence Matrix and State Media Monitor. Before founding MJRC, he directed the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University and managed global research and policy work at the Open Society Foundations.

Dr. Michał Głowacki is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has conducted research projects funded by the European Commission, Poland’s National Science Center, the National Agency for Academic Exchange, the Thomson Foundation and the Polish-American Fulbright Commission. Michał was the Programme Advisor to the Advisory Group on Public Service Media Governance at the Council of Europe in 2010. He is Editor in Chief of the “Central European Journal of Communication”. His research interests are media policy, public service media and innovation culture.

Tamás Kiss is a sociologist and researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities in Cluj-Napoca. His work examines demographic change, ethnic relations and Hungarian minority communities in Transylvania. He studied sociology at Babeș-Bolyai University and completed doctoral studies in cultural studies at the University of Pécs. He contributed to the study’s case on Facebook use among Hungarian-speaking communities in Romania.

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Jan is a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, Poland, where he carries out research on mobile audiovisual social media. His research interests include audiovisual communication, recommendation algorithms in social media and AI. Member of the Polish Communication Association. He also works as a journalist in the Polish news portal Onet, where he writes about popular culture, music and science. In the past he worked for almost all of the biggest online media outlets in Poland.

Jacek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been involved in several projects on media and communication in smart cities, media platforms and media-related risks and opportunities for deliberative communication. His research interests include new forms of media, local communication, audiovisual arts and creative industries. He has professional experience and practical skills in editorial offices, marketing, public relations, and internal communication departments.

Raluca is the coordinator of Communication Studies, and associate professor of Media Sociology at Ovidius University in Constanța, Romania. She has a PhD in Sociology from Graduate School for Social Research at IFiS PAN in Warsaw, and an MA in Economy & Society from Central European University. She is especially interested in media policy and regulation, content regimes, and the practice of journalism and its sustainability. She guest edited a special issue of the European Journal of Communication on Information as Public Good and Public Service Media in Europe, Vol. 39 (6).

Manuela Preoteasa is a lecturer in journalism at the University of Bucharest. Her research examines media ownership, market concentration, media ethics and the relationship between journalism and democracy. She holds a PhD in communication sciences from the University of Bucharest and has contributed to comparative projects including Mapping Digital Media and Television Across Europe. She contributed to the Romanian TikTok case study with Euractiv Romania.

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Raluca is a professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. Her work focuses on media and journalism, in general, and audience studies and digital radicalization, due to disinformation, in particular. Her recent work includes Romania’s contribution to the Digital News Report and the EU-funded GEMINI project on gender equality in the media and PROMPT project on malevolent narratives at European level.

Norina Solomon manages MJRC’s publications portfolio, coordinating assignments of reports and articles for the center. She has worked as a journalist and editor. She graduated from Transilvania University in Brașov, Romania, with a double major in English and Romanian language and literature, and studied documentary production at the London Academy of Media, Film and TV.

Filip is a researcher at the University of Warsaw. He has a PhD in political science and administration and a master’s degree in law. His research activity is focused on contemporary political and media systems and the impact of new media on shaping public policies. He is a member of the research team of the CHANSE project “Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms”. He is also an attorney-at-law trainee in the Bar Association in Poland.

Tibor Toró is an associate professor and study coordinator in the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research focuses on language policy, minority rights and education policy. For Hooked on the Feed, he worked with Tamás Kiss on Facebook use among Hungarian-speaking communities in Romania.

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Valentin Vanghelescu is a senior lecturer at Ovidius University of Constanța, teaching journalism and public relations. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Bucharest. His work examines digital media, online collaboration and content creation, including how platforms shape journalism and information sharing. He is the author of Content Creation and Mobility in the Network Society and contributed to the study’s Romanian TikTok case.

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