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Sanela Hodžić

Web Editor of Mediaobservatory.net, since November 2015

Sanela Hodžić has been a long-time researcher and research coordinator of Mediacentar Sarajevo. For the past seven years she is engaged in media-related research, including the research within the SEE Media Observatory project. Her research experiences involve issues such as labor relations in media, media freedom, economic and political pressures, communication policies and practices in local communities in B&H, e-governance at the local level, conflicting relations in media, as well as the engagement on Irex MSI research for the past several years (MSI Irex), and recent research within the SEE Media Observatory project (reports published here and here). Given that the mission of mediaobservatory.net corresponds with her research interests, she has gladly taken over the responsibilities of the editor of mediaobservatory.net, starting with November 2015.

Contact: sanela.hodzic@media.ba

Brankica Petković

Brankica Petković

Project leader and member of Mediaobservatory.net Editorial Board

MA in sociology of culture, a researcher and project manager at the Peace Institute Ljubljana – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies.  Editor of the Media Watch book series and Media Watch journal. Her work is focused on research, advocacy and publishing activities in the field of media accountability, communication rights of citizens and minority groups, and media pluralism. She is author of number of articles and research reports, and co-author of books on the above mentioned topics.

She has been a project leader of number of national and regional research and advocacy projects on the media and communication rights of citizens, including the projects Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism in 18 countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Patterns of Political Instrumentalisation and Clientelism in the Media in South East Europe. She has also been a member of research teams developing European studies on various media policy issues (co-regulation measures in the media sector, media pluralism indicators; indicators of independence of AVMS regulators). Her editorial position for the Media Watch publications since 1998 includes editing of more than 20 books and more than 40 issues of a journal.

Contact: Brankica.Petkovic@mirovni-institut.si

Aida Kalender

Aida Kalender

Web Editor of Mediaobservatory.net, until November 2015

Aida Kalender had managed the editorial policy and development of MCOnline. As a long-term associate of Mediacentar, she had additionally worked in marketing, public relations, and event management capacities. As an experienced journalist and manager interested in culture, Kalender currently leads the NGO Akcija, which focuses on the development of the independent cultural scene, as well as the establishment of cultural policy in BiH. Additionally, she is one of the founders of the Futura music festival. Kalender holds Master's degrees in Arts and Media Management from the Utrecht School of Arts, and in European Cultural Policy from the University of Warwick.

Sándor Orbán

Sándor Orbán

Regional advocacy coordinator and member of Mediaobservatory.net Editorial Board (December 2012-December 2013)

Sándor Orbán is the program director of the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) which unites seventeen non-for-profit media development centers from twelve countries of the region. He designs, coordinates, and supervises media policy, research, advocacy and journalism training projects. His main fields of expertise include media freedom and pluralism, reporting diversity, and journalism ethics. Orbán is also a guest lecturer at the Budapest College of Communication and Business. Prior to this current position, in 2006, he managed research and academic training programs at the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University in Budapest. From 1997 to 2005, he served as director of the Center for Independent Journalism (Budapest), established by the Independent Journalism Foundation (New York). In 1983–95, he worked at Hungarian media outlets as an international news editor and reporter covering political, social, and cultural events in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Orbán was a beneficiary of several international journalism fellowships, including the Hubert H. Humphrey program at the University of Maryland in 2004–2005, and a four-month US study tour organized by the World Press Institute (St. Paul, MN) in 1993. He completed a one-year diploma program at the Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies/Johns Hopkins University in 1989–90. He received his M.A. degree in international relations and journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1983.