Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions

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Ingrid Volkmer specializes in globalized communication transnational public communication and digital policy. She has published widely in this area. She led a multi-country study on COVID 19 and Social Media for the World Health Organisation (2020) she collaborates with UNESCO and was involved with the OECD in areas of digital policy debates specifically in contexts of AI policy.Bruce Mutsvairo is a Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has authored and edited several books on journalism and media and studies the development of journalism in non-Western societies.Saba Bebawi is Head of the Journalism and Writing discipline in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Bebawi has published on the role of media policy and new technologies in democracy-building and peace-making initiatives with a focus on journalism in conflict and post-conflict regions.Ansgard Heinrich is Associate Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen The Netherlands. She specializes in the study of contemporary journalistic practice and her primary research interests include global conflict reporting digital disinformation and social media use in journalism.Antonio Castillo is a journalist and academic. He teaches journalism and supervises postgraduate students at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. He is the author of Journalism in the Chilean Transition to Democracy and co-author of Cosmopolitan Sydney. Antonios next book Up to the Neck in Contradictions is a work of journalistic reportage that examines the last decades of Latin American society.