Karen Ross

Karen Ross is Professor of Gender and Media and has authored and edited a large number of books on aspects of media and popular culture including on topics as diverse as the audience, racial stereotypes and television, and the media and the public. However, for the past twenty years, most of her scholarship has focused on the relationship between gender and media and more specifically, the fraught relations which exist between women, politics and the news media. Recent books include: Gender, Politics, News: A Game of Three Sides (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017); Gender Equality and the Media: A Challenge for Europe (edited, with Claudia Padovani) Taylor & Francis/Routledge; A Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media (edited, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); The Media and the Public (with Stephen Coleman, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); Gendered Media: Women, Men and Identity Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).

Tobias Bürger

Tobias Bürger is a PhD candidate in Media, Culture, and Heritage at Newcastle University. His research focuses on non-profit foundations communication in Germany and the UK. Before joining Newcastle University in June 2016, he was a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at Northumbria University. Prior to that, he was a Social Media Fellow at the Stiftung Mercator (2013). He has worked as a researcher in projects on digital citizenship, women and the media in media organisations in Europe, the perception of China in German newspapers, as well as political communication on Twitter. In 2012, he was a visiting research student at the University of Liverpool. He holds degrees in Media Studies (MA) and Communications (BA) both from the University of Bonn. Tobias has written and co-authored articles and chapters on political and non-profit communication.