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

He received his PhD in Communication Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. He also studied Journalism and Mass Communication in Greece, U.K., USA and the Netherlands. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for Greek Media and as a course leader for the European Journalism Centre, training journalists from all over the world on EU affairs for almost a decade. Finally, he has organized media and conflict resolution programmes and trainings for journalists from Angola, BiH, Cyprus, Greece, The Middle East, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Roma. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications in related areas. [ + info ]

John O'Sullivan, vice-chair [john.osullivan [at] dcu.ie]
School of Communications, Dublin City University (DCU)
Dublin, Ireland

He lectures in journalism and multimedia at the DCU. A journalist for 20 years, he has worked in editing, reporting and feature writing with Irish regional and national newspapers, magazines, and online ventures. His principal research interest is in online news, with particular focus currently on journalistic practice an new media. [ + info ]

Ramón Salaverría, vice-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 Multimedia Communication Laboratory. He teaches new media and newswriting, and is involved in several research projects about online journalism. He has published the books Manual de redacción ciberperiodística (2003), Towards New Media Paradigms (2004), Redacción periodística en internet (2005) and Cibermedios (2005). He edits the weblog e-periodistas (in Spanish), about online media trends. [ + info ]