Jad Melki, Ph.D. is a journalism and media studies professor, trainer, researcher, consultant, and a freelance multimedia and broadcast journalist. He currently holds the position of director of the Media Studies Program and assistant professor of journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is also the research director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland; a visiting faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and at the Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change, Austria.