Václav Štětka is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, since 2016. Previously he worked at Masaryk University in Brno, at the University of Oxford and at Charles University in Prague. His research interests encompass political communication and the role of new media, media systems in Central and Eastern Europe, media freedom and journalistic autonomy. He is Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project “The Illiberal Turn: News Consumption, Polarization and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe” (https://www.illiberal-turn.eu/). He is an active contributor to several international research projects and networks, including the Digital News Report (Oxford University) or Media Pluralism Monitor (European University Institute in Florence). Since 2019 he is member of the Committee for Editorial Independence of the Czech media house Economia.
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