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Ivanka Mavrodieva is a Full Professor, PhD, and Dr. Hab. She is a lecturer in rhetoric, business communication, public relations, and academic writing at Sofia University. She has authored 15 books presenting scientific information in new and traditional spheres from the perspective of a researcher, including "Parliamentary Rhetoric in Bulgaria" (2001), "Integration of Bulgaria in the EU and NATO: Rhetorical Aspects" (2004), "Virtual Rhetoric: From Journals to Online Social Media" (2010), and "Political Rhetoric in Bulgaria: From Meetings to Web 2.0 (1989-2012)" (2012).

Mavrodieva has published 130 articles in renowned scientific journals and has participated in international scientific conferences. She is also the author of two collections and one textbook with oratorical speeches and the compiler of two collections and one chrestomathy: "Contemporary Rhetorical Practices" (2010), "Patterns of Modern Oratory" (2010), and "Communications in Virtual Environment" (2010).

Since 2013, Mavrodieva has been a member of the Executive Board of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE). She is also the Editor-in-chief of the Rhetoric and Communications Journal and the Chair of the Executive Board of the Institute of Rhetoric and Communications. Mavrodieva regards rhetoric as an ancient yet vital science, communication as practices in business, Web 4.0, and the Internet of Things.

Lenka Waschková Císařová is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Her teaching and research focus on local media, media ownership, and the transition of media markets. She is the editor of the book "Voice of the Locality: Local Media and Local Audience," the author of a monograph on Czech local media developments, and several journal articles and book chapters on related topics. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a local journalist.

Dr Ehab Galal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. He leads an interdisciplinary research project on "Mediatized Diaspora: Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe". His research interests include Arab media, Islamic television, regime-critical media, media and migration, Arab media audiences, and mediatized diaspora. Dr Galal's work draws on perspectives from regional, media, cultural, and religious studies. He has published extensively in esteemed journals and is the author of several books including "Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity" (2014) and "Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication: New Approaches" (2023).

For more information on his work and research project, please visit his website at https://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/164164 and the project website at https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/mediatizeddiaspora/.

Dr Signe Ivask is a journalism sociology lecturer and researcher at the University of Tartu (Estonia). She finished her postdoctoral research at Masaryk University, the Czech Republic at the end of 2022. She has been teaching reporting, writing and stress management among journalism students since 2012; since 2017, she also focuses on media literacy among lay audiences. Her research interests include stress and burnout of journalists, working routines in the newsroom and media sociology; also local journalism and digital challenges.
Her latest work focuses on attacks against journalists (“"You can run, but you cannot hide!" Mapping Journalists’ Experiences With Hostility in Personal, Organisational and Professional domains” in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator), emotional management among journalists ("When can I get angry?” Journalists’ coping strategies and emotional management in hostile situations”) and news sociology ("All by Myself?" Journalists' Routines and Decision-making in Gathering and Publishing Death-related Visuals). Her PhD is from University of Tartu (dissertation: “The role of routines, demands and resources in work stress among Estonian journalists”). She has expertise as a newspaper and radio journalist in the biggest Estonian outlets. She has worked as a freelancer since 2015.

Päivi Maijanen is an associate professor at the LUT University Business School in Finland. Additionally, she serves as a visiting professor at the University of Trento in Italy and at DSW University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland. Her research interests revolve around change management and organizational renewal of media organizations, media responsibility, and sustainable business models. Prof. Maijanen is also an esteemed member of the Executive Board of the European Media Management Association and an associate editor of the Central European Journal of Communication. Prior to her academic career, she gained valuable experience working as a journalist and manager at the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

works as Associate Professor in University of Vaasa, School of Marketing and Communication and Digital Economy Research Platform. Dr. Hirsto is specialized in the study of discourse and communication across disciplines, spanning from media studies to cultural consumer studies and organizational communication. Their current research focuses on the ways in which digital culture and digital spaces reorganize people’s possibilities to exert social influence as economic citizens. Hirsto is also the chair of the VAKKI Communication Research Association in Finland. They have a long experience in university teaching and supervision of masters’ and doctoral students, and are currently responsible for the multidisciplinary master’s program in communication studies at the University of Vaasa. Hirsto’s work has appeared in, e.g., Organization Studies; Consumption, Markets and Culture; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal; and Journal of Professions and Organization, as well as in numerous research books.

Prof. Castulus Kolo first studied physics in Munich and completed his studies with a PhD at CERN, Geneva, where he came across the WWW as one of the early users in 1989. Later he gained an additional PhD in social anthropology driven by an interest in how other cultures appropriate innovations.

He has gathered extensive leadership experience in strategy consulting as well as applied research among other with the German Fraunhofer Society and in 2001 he became member of the board of directors of the corporate venture management of Süddeutscher Verlag, a large German publishing house (with Süddeutsche Zeitung as one of its newspapers).

Throughout his management career, Castulus continued his academic activities as a lecturer on innovation management, media, and ICT at several universities (e.g. Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, University of St. Gallen), and joined the then newly founded Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in 2007, where having been appointed dean of the media faculty and later vice president he became president in February 2020.
Today, Macromedia University is part of Galileo Global Education, the largest European education group. Within this group, Castulus is also director of Regents University, London, and member of the advisory board of the Paris School of Business.

Castulus’ research revolves around the preconditions, the diffusion as well as the effects of media innovations at the intersection of economy, society, and technology. He has published extensively with over 80 contributions in diverse academic journals, edited volumes, and proceedings. In his academic community he also serves as a member of the executive board of the International Media Management Academic Association for which he was elected president until 2022. He was elected as European Media Management Academic Association in 2023.

Andreas Will has been a Media and Communication Management Professor at Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany) since 2002. After graduating as an industrial engineer (Universität Karlsruhe), he earned his doctorate and habilitated in business administration/information systems (both at Universität Augsburg). He then worked as a project manager for online projects in the Deutsche Bank Group. His research interests lie in media management, especially digital media markets and media organisations' application of digital technologies. His research is based on different theoretical approaches, including media entrepreneurship, organisational theories and business model research. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used in his research. Andreas Will has acquired and successfully carried out numerous third-party-funded projects of various funding lines (including the Thuringian State Media Authority, DFG, BMBF, BMWi, and EU) in media management and communication management. He is a founding member of the European Media Management Association EMMA.

Jonas Weber is a team member in the Department of Media and Communication Management at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. He is a research associate and prospective doctoral student since 2021. Before, he studied the German-French Bachelor's "European Media Culture" program at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Université Lumière Lyon 2. Afterwards, he did the Master's degree in "Media Management", also at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He is currently working on the topic of media platforms for his PhD and wrote his master's thesis on digital journalism platforms. His research interests lie in media management, journalism, media platforms, and future technologies.

Miriam Bernhard has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the field of media and communication management at the Technische Universität Ilmenau since April 2019. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Online Media Management and her Master's degree in Crossmedia Publishing & Management at Stuttgart Media University (Germany). In addition to her studies, she has already gained experience in various German publishing houses, such as DIE ZEIT or Condé Nast Germany. Moreover, she was supported by the EU project CERIecon by being part of the project "Sandbox", an accelerator for founders of the creative industries. Now she is working on her doctoral thesis on the question of how media organizations learn about emerging technologies. Therefore, her research interests lie in the areas of media management, organizational learning in media organizations and emerging technologies.

Nigar Zahan is a Research Associate affiliated with the Department of Media and Communication Management at Technische Universität Ilmenau. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree on the topic of Gamification. Previously, she worked as a Project Manager for the EU Interreg project CerDee on behalf of the University. Nigar holds a joint Master’s degree from the University of Flensburg in Germany and the University of Southern Denmark, in the field of Political and Social Economy of EU.

Currently, Nigar is working on Gamification in Higher Education to promote active learning among students. Her research interest revolves around Gamification and Digital Media Communication.

Eylem Yanardağoğlu is a media sociologist who received her PhD at City, University of London Sociology department . She taught courses on Introduction to New Media, New Media Theories, Social Media, Sociology of News, International Communication, Digital Journalism Journalism at various undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Greece, Turkey and Britain. Having published extensively on the state of Turkish media, her research interests include digital citizenship, transnational news networks, digital transformation of news consumption and production, distribution and transnational expansion of Turkish TV series. She has a particular interest in Greek-Turkish media and have been teaching at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Msc Program in Media and Refugee/Migration Flows since 2021. Eylem is also a research fellow at the Turkey program of ELIAMEP since February 2022. She is the author of the monograph entitled Transformation of the Media System in Turkey: Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence, published by Palgrave in 2021.

She is curently researching the digital citizenship practices and digital media use of the Turkish speaking migrants in Athens.

Languages: Turkish, English, Greek

Ilva Skulte, Dr. Philol., is an associate professor at Riga Stradins University. She earned her doctoral degree in the history of language in 1999 and has been actively involved in the Department of Communication Studies since 2001. Within the department, she teaches courses on the history of communication, cultural journalism, and various aspects of communication theory.

Alongside her academic career, Skulte has also worked as a cultural journalist, contributing to numerous print and online media outlets.

Skulte's research interests encompass several areas, including the analysis of media and political discourse, the examination of (literary) texts and their relationship with media, cultural journalism, media literacy, and children's media.

Kristina Juraitė is a professor at the Department of Public Communications, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. She is the head of the Department and co-founder of the UNESCO Chair on Media and Information Literacy for Inclusive Knowledge Societies. Currently, she's coordinating the Horizon Europe project DIACOMET - Fostering capacity building for civic resilience and participation: Dialogic communication ethics and accountability. Her research interests include the digital public sphere, communication ethics, media and information literacy, cultural participation and visual studies.

Prof. Victoria Bulicanu is the Dean of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences at Moldova State University. In the Dean’s opinion, the faculty is first and foremost a bastion for truth and justice, promoting European values in the teaching of future journalists and communicators, two professions that are in high demand in today's job market. The educational standards adopted by the faculty promote professionalism, freedom of thought, social responsibility, and a spirit of creativity. The main mission of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, in accordance with the mission of Moldova State University, is to provide modern, student-centered education through the excellence of knowledge and the development of skills and characters, offering opportunities for professional and personal development tailored to the needs and interests of students. Prof. Victoria Bulicanu has authored over 45 scientific publications, published in Moldova and abroad, on subjects such as media institution management, media advertising, institutional communication, and opinion journalism.

Prof. Ludmila Rusnac is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences at Moldova State University with over 20 years of teaching experience at the faculty. Her position as Vice-Dean allows her to effectively manage the didactic and scientific activities of the faculty. Prof. Ludmila Rusnac is a member of the Press Council in the Republic of Moldova, one of the most respected media organizations that promotes ethical standards in the profession. Over the years, she has published about 35 scientific works in Moldova and Romania, with her main professional interests being institutional communication, press campaigns, and public relations. She believes that the didactic, scientific, and organizational activities at the faculty harmoniously combine with the academic model of Moldova State University, the largest university in the Republic of Moldova.

Marta Budzyńska is a television and radio journalist. Since 2017 she has been associated with the Polsat News TV channel; previously for 10 years she worked for Telewizja Polska, where she hosted news programs ("Panorama", "Wiadomości") as well as magazines focusing on foreign and economic issues. She began her adventure with journalism in 2004 at Polskie Radio. She shares her experience with journalism students at the University of Warsaw. Her voice can be heard in films (“The Hater” (2020), “Prime Time” (2021), “Cracow Monsters” (2022) and TV series (“Sexify”, “First Love”). A travel enthusiast, she is also a make-up artist in her spare time.

Greta Gober, doctor of humanities (in the field of cultural studies), Polish media researcher, living and working in Sweden (Stockholm). Dr Gober's research focuses on production culture, communication and gendered power relations and identities in the media industry. Between 2005–2009 Greta worked for public television in Poland (TVP Olsztyn). Since then, she has been researching and working to eliminate gender discrimination in the media. As an intern at the Council of Europe Media Department, she supported an expert team on equality between women and men in the media. She held a Fulbright scholarship. She conducted research, among others, at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, at the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and more recently as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Media Department, Stockholm University. Currently Dr Gober is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw where she leads a Norway-grants funded "Diversity management as innovation in journalism" research project (2021-2023). Dr Gober served as Vice President of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT, between 2020-2022). She is currently Vice-Chair of the ECREA Gender, Sexuality & Communication section (2021-2024).

has been a volunteer and coordinator at refugee help centers in Warsaw's Torwar and Ilmet building. For the first six months of the Ukrainian conflict, she coordinated humanitarian aid. She's also the founder of TOR WAR Warsaw Aid Association, dedicated to providing ongoing support to Ukraine.

In her professional life, Maria specializes in crisis communication and is the Director of Marketing for the Polish Speed Skating Association. She's also a lecturer at SWPS University and holds a Ph.D. in media and social communication from the University of Warsaw.

Katarzyna Kozłowska is an editor and media manager with 19 years’ experience. From 2019 to mid-2023 she served as the editor-in-chief of Fakt (Ringier Axel Springer), managing digital transformation of the biggest Polish newspaper. Prior to it, she performed leadership roles in several news media organizations – with “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. Magazyn” (leading editor), “Wprost” weekly (deputy editor-in-chief), and “Super Express” (deputy editor-in-chief) among them. She was also a cofounder of Kurhaus Publishing, overseeing its emergence as an award- winning non-fiction book outlet (“Economicus Awards” for best translations of “Czarny Łabędź”, “Antykruchość” by Nassim Taleb, “Czego nie można kupić za pieniądze” by Michael Sandel, and more). She studied journalism at Warsaw University and business at Hult International Business School in London. (Photo copyright: K. Burski)

Jarosław Pioterczak has been afiliated with Grupa RMF since 2004. He is the co-creator and Program Director of the RMF MAXX radio station. In 2022 he oversaw the RMF Ukraine project, a radio targeted at refugees from Ukraine. Previously he worked at Grupa Radiowa Agory (Agora Radio Group), he began his career in radio in 1998.

Maciej Sztykiel is a radio journalist – a reporter associated with the RMF FM since 2021. He covers law, politics and social affairs. As the station's special correspondent, he reported from Ukraine on last year's Russian aggression against the country. Previously, he worked for Radio ZET for five years. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, where he studied journalism and media studies.

Anca Anton is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania, where she teaches courses in marketing communications, media marketing, corporate and business PR, and communications. Her research covers several areas, including the intersection of communication and democratized forms of diplomacy, with a focus on public diplomacy, civil society diplomacy, and digital diplomacy; the transformation of the PR/comms profession and industry, particularly in relation to freelancers, PR agencies, and corporate communicators, and their intersection with digital and social media; and digital governmental communication. She is a member of EUPRERA, ICA, and ECREA and co-leads the Public Relations Education Network within EUPRERA.

Anna Sámelová is an Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia;
the Director of the Section of News and Current Affairs of the Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS, public-service broadcaster);
a radio and television journalist with 33 years of experience in the field;
the author of 3 monographs on RTVS, co-author of both current codes of ethics in journalism in Slovakia - national (The Journalist's Code of Ethics) and public-service (The Statute of Program Employees and Associates of the Radio and Television of Slovakia).
She has connected her academic work with applied practice and vice versa in 4 completed and 2 ongoing grant-funded research projects focusing on the issues of power and truth in media, editorial responsibility within “mediatization” of the world, the changes in human cognition within media-mediated communication after the rise of online media.
She was a co-founder of the International Press Institute Slovakia (2008), a member of the National Communication Committee for the Introduction of the Euro in the Slovak Republic (2006 – 2009), currently, she is an individual member of ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association and a regular member of the Slovak Philosophical Association at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Göran Bolin is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. His research focusses on information management, branding and policy, as well as datafication and digital markets. He is the author and editor of Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (Ashgate, 2011), Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society (Routledge, 2012), Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatised Social Change (Routledge 2016) and Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution (with Per Ståhlberg, MIT Press 2023). He is a member of the Executive Board of ECREA and Chair of the Film, Media and Visual Studies section of Academia Europaea.

Leona Achtenhagen is a professor in Business Administration focused on Entrepreneurship and Business Development.
Professor Achtenhagen is also Director of the Media, Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at JIBS.

She received her PhD from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. She has held previous appointments at Warwick Business School, UK and the University of Bamberg, Germany. Her main research and teaching are in the areas of strategy and organization studies, as well as entrepreneurship. Currently, her research focuses on organizing/strategizing processes of continuously growing firms, analyses of discourses transmitted by newspapers, and open innovation. Her research has been published in numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Tetiana Zinovieva is a Ph.D. in Art History, assistant professor of Information Activity and Media Communications Department of Odesa National Polytechnic University (Ukraine), Deputy Dean of the Humanities Faculty. Guarantor of the educational and professional program "Journalism" (2022). Basic higher education – teaching, and psychologist in educational institutions. Experience teaching activities in higher education - 17 years.
Research interests: game-based learning, gamification of education, serious games in higher education, knowledge management, spirituality in digital culture, traditional and modern culture, folk creativity, convergent journalism and folk pedagogy, journalistic ethics.

Mariia Butyrina is a Professor of the Marketing Department at Dnipro University of Technology, with a Doctor of Sciences in Social Communications. She received her degree in journalism at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and obtained her PhD in Journalism in 2001, studying the communicative factors of the functioning of journalistic texts. In 2009, she defended her doctoral thesis on stereotypes of mass consciousness. She has previously headed the departments of advertising and public relations (2009-2016) and mass and international communication (2016-2022) at the DNU named after O. Honchar.
Mariia Butyrina has also worked as a communication advisor at the police department of the Dnipropetrovsk region and has experience as a journalist and editor of regional media in Ukraine. She has more than 200 publications on issues related to media education, media psychology, applied communication technologies, competence approach in the system of journalism education.

Witkoria Szewczenko is a highly accomplished academic and member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. She currently serves as the head of the Department of Multimedia Technologies and Media Design at the Institute of Journalism, where she has worked since 1996. In addition to her role as a professor, Szewczenko has been a scientific secretary, a member of the scientific and methodical council of the Institute of Journalism, and a member of the scientific and methodical commission for journalism and information of the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine. She is also the guarantor of the master's program "Digital Media."
With extensive experience in media and communications, Szewczenko has held numerous roles in the industry, including scientific and editor-in-chief, designer, typewriter, correspondent, journalist, and editor in various publications. She was also the head of a grant project with the support of the International Renaissance Fund, aimed at improving the quality of professional education in new media and communication technologies in regional educational institutions from 2010 to 2012. Currently, Szewczenko is the head of the "New Media" section at the Small Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial board of several scientific collections.

Svitlana Bezchotnikova is a Doctor of Philology and a Professor of Social Communications, currently serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Mass Communications at Mariupol State University. She has authored 108 scientific publications on topics such as radio journalism, e-governance, corporate social responsibility, and innovative communication technologies, which have been published in Ukraine and abroad.

Prof. Bezchotnikova serves as a member of the editorial boards of several Ukrainian and foreign scientific journals, including "Global Media Journal" (USA), "Journal of Media and Communication" (India), "Integrated Communications" (Ukraine, Borys Hrynchenko Kyiv University), and "Bulletin of Mariupol State University: Philology" (Ukraine, Mariupol State University). She is also an expert on the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine's scientific board and has participated in national and international projects aimed at developing educational standards and the national framework of qualifications in the field of Journalism.

Svitlana Bezchotnikova has been combining teaching with practical work since 2009, serving as the director of the TV and radio company EUROSTUDIO. In 2015, she created the Mariupol Radio Group Agency, which provides information and advertising support for eight radio stations in the city of Mariupol and the Azov region. Since 2016, she has also served as the Chairman of the Committee on Women's Entrepreneurship of the Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and since 2015, she has been a member of the Presidium of the Donetsk branch of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

Nataliia Voitovych holds a Ph.D. in Social Communications and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and Practice of Journalism at the Faculty of Journalism of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, where she has been working since 2005. With over 20 years of experience as a journalist, she is also a media trainer, media literacy trainer, member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, member of the club for trainers "Media Literacy Workshop," and founder of the public organization "You - Media."

Voitovych has developed training courses such as "Media literacy: technologies and practical application," "Psychology of political advertising," "Ethical and legal norms of journalism," "Political image in the structure of communicative space," "Organization of the work of the press service," and "Critical thinking and media." She is also the head of media literacy projects, including "Five Minutes of Media Literacy" (a mini-series with 13 episodes) and "Media Literate World" (an online course with six episodes).

Her field of scientific interests includes media discourses, media literacy, media psychology, journalistic ethics, informational security, political rhetoric, media studies, political studies, media representations, socio-political representations, media narratives, socio-political narratives, symbolic and language politics.

Maryna Dorosh is a Senior Technical Advisor of the Learn to Discern project at IREX in Ukraine. She leads the implementation of a media literacy program that has reached more than 80000 primary school students and supports journalists, civil servants, and the public in countering disinformation. Also, Maryna focuses on curriculum development, integrating media literacy into educational materials, and designing training for educators and the public. She is experienced in the journalism and NGO sectors. She has worked as an editor of the Ukrainian website MediaSapiens (2014-2018) and is a co-creator of Media Driver, an online media literacy manual for teenagers (Detector Media, 2016), in addition to working on Detector Media’s News Literacy e-course (2017). Ms. Dorosh has a master’s degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is recently studying on Strategic Communications  MA at the King’s College London.

She ran Ukraine Media Partnership Program (UMPP) since 2009 till now. Svitlana communicates with media managers and journalists in Ukraine and the U.S. on various topics including media development, professional exchange of knowledge and new models of financial sustainability of media.

The Ukraine Media Partnership Program (UMPP) was funded by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and administered by IREX since 2002 in Ukraine. UMPP creates meaningful learning exchange for Ukrainian media professionals who are linked to counterparts at American media outlets and other learning opportunities. Partnerships with U.S. media outlets help Ukrainian peers enhance their professional skills and improve operations and processes throughout their media organizations.

The program developed a network of over 50 regional and hyperlocal media outlets in Ukraine and has around 50 media partners in the U.S. 

Dr François Nel is a Reader [Associate Professor] in Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, home to England’s oldest university journalism course. There, he leads the pioneering postgraduate Journalism Innovation and Leadership Programme and is a member of the Media Innovation Studio research group, where he is currently leading the News Futures 2035 foresight study into the supply of public intere

Dr Kamila Rymajdo is a journalist and academic. She is a postdoctoral researcher on the News Futures 2035 foresight study into the supply of public-interest news in the UK based at the Media Innovation Studio at the University of Central Lancashire. Her academic writing focuses on journalism, the creative industries, music and migration and has been published in journals such as Popular Music, Journal of World Popular Music, Popular Music History and edited collections including Heading North (Palgrave Macmillan), The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (Bloomsbury) and Made in Poland (Routledge). In 2021, she co-founded SEEN, a Manchester based music magazine and platform created to represent global majority and marginal communities, funded by Arts Council England and Manchester Music City.