Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015) and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), and Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021). He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020 and is currently an Executive Board member of the ICA. He was elected an ICA Fellow in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2019. He has held visiting professor roles at City University, London and George Washington University, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Communications University of China, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His most recent funded research projects have been on digital platform regulation, trust and mistrust in news, and valuing news from individual, institutional and societal perspectives.

Dr Scott Fitzgerald is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Curtin Business School, Curtin University. His research interests in the field of business and management are located in the broad areas of industrial relations, human resource management (3505), organisational behaviour and organisation studies (3507). His research expertise also spans various disciplines: sociology, political economy and media and communication studies.

Scott’s research is presently split into two distinct areas.  The first research area is focused on the changing nature of governance, professionalism and work in the education sector.  This research connects with his broader interest in public services and the state.  His second research area covers the networked media economy, cultural industry corporations, and cultural work.

Cameron McTernan is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His current project Media Power in the Age of Tech Giants examines pluralism in Australia’s media industry using both existing revenue-based models and a proposed model for measuring the attention economy online. Cameron’s previous research Popular Politics // Authentic Australians explored the prevalence of populist appeals on social media posts by Australian politicians ahead of the 2019 federal election. He is also an early career teaching academic at the University of South Australia, lecturing in Communication, Strategic Public Relations and Social Media.