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thorn) and the recent edited collection Mediated Citizenship (Routledge, 2008). Her work on
media, democracy and citizenship has appeared in more than 20 different international journals.
Silvio Waisbord is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington
University, Washington, DC. His main areas of research are journalism and politics in a
global context, and communication and global health. He is the author of Watchdog Journalism
in South America (Columbia University Press, 2000), and co-editor of Global Media, Latin
Politics (University of Texas Press, 2002) and Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters
(Rowman and Littlefi eld, 2001). Dr. Waisbord is the editor of the International Journal of Press/
Politics.
Stephen J. A. Ward is Director of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, and Professor of Journalism Ethics. His current research is in global
journalism ethics and science journalism. He is the author of The Invention of Journalism Ethics:
The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), and his work has
appeared in Journalism Studies and the Harvard Journal of Press and Politics. He is associate
editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and chair of the ethics committee for the Canadian
Association of Journalists. Dr. Ward has worked as a reporter, war correspondent and bureau
chief for 13 years.
Herman Wasserman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University
of Sheffi eld in the UK and is Associate Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Journalism
at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is editor of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Global Mass Communication, Journal of
African Media Studies and Journal of Mass Media Ethics. His current research interests include
popular media and citizenship in Africa and global media ethics.
David Weaver is the Roy W. Howard Research Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana
University, Bloomington. He has published a dozen books and many articles and book chapters
about journalists, media agenda setting, foreign news coverage, and newspaper readership. His
latest books include Global Journalism Research (Blackwell, 2008) and The American Journalist
in the 21st Century (Erlbaum, 2007). He is currently working on a fi ve-year panel study update of
the 2002 American Journalist study and a 40-year replication of the original Chapel Hill agendasetting
study.
Xu Xiaoge is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His major areas of research include modeling
journalism differences in Asia, development journalism, online journalism and online communication.
He has published Demystifying Asian Values in Journalism (Marshall Cavendish Academic,
2005) and research articles in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Asian Journal of
Communication, American Communication Journal, Media Asia and Mass Comm Review.
Kyu Ho Youm is the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair in the School of Journalism and
Communication at the University of Oregon. His research interests focus on freedom of the press
and mass media law. He has edited the communication law and policy area of the International
Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell, 2008). As a member of the Communication Law
Writers Group since 1998, he has contributed to a US media law book, titled Communication