Ilija Tomanic Trivundza is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and President of the European Communication Research and Education Association.

Hannu Nieminen is Professor of Media and Communications Policy, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also holds part-time positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Josef Trappel is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics, and Head of the Department of Communication Studies, at the University of Salzburg, Austria.