Advisory panel
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Stephen Jukes, Kelly Toughill, Steve Jones, C Rammanohar Reddy, Bertrand Pecquerie, Barry Richards, Allen Tullos
Allen Tullos is Associate Professor of American Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and Senior Editor of Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, online, interdisciplinary journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the American South.
From 1982 to 2004 he was editor of the journal Southern Changes. He has worked as co-producer and sound recordist on the award-winning documentary films Born for Hard Luck, Being A Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains and A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle in the American Traditional Culture Series; and is producer of the documentary Tommie Bass.
He is the editor of Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South, and his book Habits of Industry won the Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association.
Tullos has published on American popular music, southern film and visual culture, the politics of space, and contemporary southern politics.
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Barry Richards is Professor of Public Communication and Deputy Dean for Research and Enterprise at the Media School, Bournemouth University, England.
He started his career as a clinical psychologist. He co-founded the UEL Centre for Consumer and Advertising Studies, where the advertising research reported in The Dynamics of Advertising (Richards et al., 2000) was conducted.
Amongst his earlier books are Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture (1994) and Images of Freud (1989).
His current focus is public opinion dynamics, particularly media coverage of terrorism. His latest book, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror, is a case study of terrorism and the emotional dynamics of publics.
Barry is an experienced monitor of the British brewing industry, and a supporter of Cardiff City.
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Bertrand Pecquerie was appointed Director of the World Editors Forum in 2003.
From 1989 to 2001, he served as CEO of the World Media Network, a press syndicate gathering major European and Arabic newspapers (including El Pais, La Stampa, Libération, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Standard, Al Ahram, and An Nahar).
From 1996 to 2002 Bertrand also headed World Media Live, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal in charge of international websites (Cannes Film Festival, Tour de France).
Formerly, Bertrand was a lecturer at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in
World Editors Forum is the organisation for Editors and Senior News Executives within the World Association of Newspapers. Created in 1994, it is a unique network for exchanging ideas on newsroom management, editorial quality, online strategies and press freedom issues.
A principal activity of WEF is the Editors Weblog, which has more than 40,000 unique visitors per month.
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C Rammanohar Reddy is the editor of Economic and Political Weekly,
He was earlier Associate Editor of The Hindu at Chennai and
He holds a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management,
He has edited with M V Ramana the collection of essays Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (Orient Longman, New Delhi).
Kelly Toughill is an assistant professor at the University of King’s College School of Journalism in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
She is publisher of the King’s Journalism Review, an online multimedia publication for journalists in Atlantic Canada, and is a contributing editor to J-source.ca, a publication of the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
She serves on the board of directors of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, and writes a regular column about the media for The Toronto Star and for Media Magazine, the organ of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Kelly has worked as a staff writer and editor at newspapers in Canada and the United States. She spent two decades at The Toronto Star, where she earned distinction as a senior political writer and national correspondent and was twice honoured with National Newspaper Award nominations. She was deputy executive editor of The Star when she left to join King’s.
She holds a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University and an MBA from Queen’s University in Ontario.
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Steve Jones is Associate Dean for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Communication, Research Associate in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Adjunct Professor of Electronic Media in the School of Art & Design at the
He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture. He edits Digital Formations, a series of books on digital media, the internet and communication (Peter Lang Publishing).
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Stephen Jukes is Dean of the
He is a member of the Dart Center‘s advisory board, deputy chair of the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (a charity in honour of a
Before taking up his appointment in
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Gadi Wolfsfeld is Professor of Political Science and Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Director of Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research.
He has served as the chair of the political communication section of the American Political Science Association (2006-2007).
His books include Media and the Path to Peace, Media and Political Conflict: News from the Middle East and The Politics of Provocation: Participation and Protest In Israel.
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