Katrin Voltmer is Professor of Communication and Democracy at the University of Leeds, UK.  Christian Christensen is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University, Sweden. Nicole Stremlau is Research Professor in the Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, at the University of Oxford, UK. Irene Neverla is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Hamburg, Germany. Barbara Thomass is Professor for International Comparison of Media Systems at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. Nebojša Vladisavljević is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Herman Wasserman is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa.