FOTP 2013 Full Report

Hamburg, she is the project coordinator of the Latin American Media Program. She also worksas a consultant for Deutsche Welle Academy and UNESCO. She completed her bachelor’s andmaster’s degrees in communication science, journalism, and Latin American studies at theUniversities of Hamburg, Guadalajara (Mexico), and Sydney. She served as a Western Europeanalyst for Freedom of the Press.Hyunjin Seo is assistant professor and Docking Young Faculty Scholar in the William AllenWhite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She haspublished research studies in the areas of digital media, international journalism, and strategiccommunication. Prior to receiving her PhD from Syracuse University, she was a foreign affairscorrespondent for South Korean and international media outlets. During that time, she traveledextensively to cover major international events including six-party talks on North Korea’snuclear issues and UN and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meetings. She served asan Asia-Pacific analyst for Freedom of the Press.Janet Steele is an associate professor of journalism in the School of Media and Public Affairs atGeorge Washington University. She received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins Universityand has taught courses on the theory and practice of journalism in Southeast and South Asia as aFulbright senior scholar and lecturer. Her book, Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, anIndependent Magazine in Soeharto’s Indonesia, focuses on Tempo magazine and its relationshipwith the politics and culture of New Order–era Indonesia. She served as a Southeast Asia analystfor Freedom of the Press.Nicole Stremlau is coordinator of the program in comparative media law and policy at theUniversity of Oxford, where she is also a research fellow in the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies.She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics in development studies. Her researchfocuses on media policy during and in the aftermath of guerrilla struggles in the Horn of Africa.She served as an East Africa analyst for Freedom of the Press.Kai Thaler is a PhD student in the Department of Government at Harvard University with afocus on comparative politics and international relations in Africa, Latin America, and theLusophone countries. He is an affiliated researcher of the Portuguese Institute of InternationalRelations and Security (IPRIS) and has been a consultant for Handicap International, aresearcher at the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, and aDGARQ/FLAD Research Fellow at the Portuguese national archives. He holds a master’s degreein sociology from the University of Cape Town and a bachelor’s degree in political science fromYale University. He served as a sub-Saharan Africa analyst for Freedom of the Press.Leigh Tomppert is an independent researcher specializing in gender, human rights, anddevelopment issues. She currently works with the UN Entity for Gender Equality and theEmpowerment of Women (UN Women) as a policy consultant in the Women’s EconomicEmpowerment Section. She previously coedited Freedom House’s Women’s Rights in the MiddleEast and North Africa publication and has also written for Freedom in the World. She receivedmaster’s degrees in comparative and cross-cultural research methods from the University ofSussex and in the social sciences from the University of Chicago. She served as an Americasanalyst for Freedom of the Press.10