Marko Ala-Fossi is a university lecturer in Journalism at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences of Tampere University. His research interests include media and communication policy, public service media in Europe and social shaping of new media technologies.

Anette Alén-Savikko is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her expertise covers ICT law, with an emphasis on copyright and data protection. She examines law, media, and digitalization in an interdisciplinary fashion. She has been involved in many EU-wide studies and corresponds for the European Audiovisual Observatory.

John Grönvall is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki and lecturer in Media and Film studies at Arcada University of Applied Science. His PhD project focuses on the dialectic of Public Service media in the Nordic media welfare states. His  focus is on the discourse and framing of the agency, duties and steering of the national public service media in the Nordic countries. John is currently involved in The Media for Democracy Monitor project led by Prof. Josef Trappel and the Euromediagroup. John has previously studied engineering, he has a M.Sc. in Computer Graphics programming from Middlesex University in London.

Jenni Hakkarainen is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of University of Helsinki and an affiliated researcher at the University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab. In her PhD, she examines implications of networked power in digital environments and ways of maintaining due process in privatized decision making. She is currently looking into the role of internet platforms in moderating content on social media. Hakkarainen is involved in research projects on algorithmic decision making led by Riikka Koulu.

Juha Herkman (PI, Helsinki) is a Professor at the University of Helsinki and a PI of the Academy of Finland–funded consortium Mainstreaming Populism in the Twenty-First Century (MAPO, 2017–2021). His main research interests involve the relationship between the media and power, as well as political communication.

Jockum Hildén is completed his PhD in 2019 on the legislative process of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include privacy and the implementation of data protection regulation, EU media regulation, policy, and lobbying, internet governance, and the dynamics of the online advertising economy.

Ilmari Hiltunen is a doctoral candidate of journalism at the University of Tampere. His PhD project (2016–2022) focuses on external interference, threats, and harassment experienced by Finnish journalists. His research interests include journalistic autonomy, professionalism, ethics, and safety of journalists. He has previously studied populist online counter-media and fake news in the Finnish media sphere.

Minna Aslama Horowitz is a Docent at the University of Helsinki, a researcher at the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS), a Fellow at St. John’s University, New York, and an Expert on Advocacy and Digital Rights at the Central European University, Vienna. She is also a member of the Think Tank of the Nordic Council of Ministers to address platformization in the Nordics. Horowitz researches (public media) policies, digital rights, and media activism.

Irina Grigor (Khaldarova) has recently completed her PhD on the strategic narratives in conflict reporting at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests also include emotions and trust in media, disinformation, and web-based communication. Earlier Irina studied at Cardiff University (School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies), where she received her Master’s degree in Political Communication. 

Elis Karell is a student in the Master’s Programme in Politics, Media and Communication at the University of Helsinki. He is currently writing his master’s thesis about the framing of climate change in corporate communication. He has previously worked in journalism and organizational communication.

Kari Karppinen is a university lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include media and communication policy, conceptions of media freedom and pluralism, media and democracy, and digital rights.

Riikka Koulu is assistant professor in Law and Digitalization at the University of Helsinki, a member of the digital humanities center HELDIG, and director of the University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab, a research hub located in the law faculty. Her research interests include algorithmic fairness, autonomous decision making, and the governance and conflict management of data-driven technologies.

Katja Lehtisaari is adjunct professor (title of docent) in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki and senior lecturer in journalism at Tampere University. She has coordinated projects on researching business models of journalism and is specialized in comparative analyses of media business, media policy, and journalism. She is the Editor-in-Chief, Idäntutkimus // The Finnish Review for East European Studies.

Riku Neuvonen is a university lecturer in Public Law at the University of Tampere. He has published several books, book chapters, and articles on freedom of expression, privacy, and the regulation of the media. Neuvonen is a member of the Law & Media networks, which bring together experts in Media Law and the Media from Nordic and Baltic countries. He is also a member of the research group Reconfiguring Privacy – A Study of the Political Foundations of Privacy Regulation. Neuvonen has worked as an expert in several roles in legislative processes.

Hannu Nieminen is director of HSSH Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, and a visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a professor emeritus of media and communications policy, University of Helsinki. His research interests include communication theory, democracy and communication, communication rights, and media regulation.

Outi Puukko is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki. Her PhD project focuses on civil society actors’ role in the digital rights discourse. Her research interests include media activism, social justice, and digital rights movements.

Reeta Pöyhtäri works as a senior research fellow at Tampere University. Her research interests are related to rights-based questions in the digital media environment and include freedom of expression, online hate and harassment, hate speech policies, journalistic practices and ethics, and migration in the media.

Esa Reunanen (PI, Tampere) is a senior researcher at Tampere University. His research has focused on the mediatization of politics and the political public sphere. He has recently studied Finnish journalists’ freedom and obligation to present their own opinions about political issues, and the kinds of pressures the current media environment exerts on politicians.

Esa Sirkkunen works as a senior researcher at Tampere University. He has published more than 60 scientific articles, books, reports, and papers on the genres of journalism, online journalism, online communities, social media, the business models of online journalism, privacy online, and online surveillance.

Salla Tuomola is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at the University of Tampere. In her PhD, she examines the public discourse on immigration and refugees in the Finnish-language right-wing alternative media. Her research interests involve alternative media, counterpublics, far-right thinking and trust in journalistic media and democracy.