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Contributors

Frank Esser is assistant professor of mass communication at the Univer-
sityofMissouri,Columbia.HewasassistantprofessorintheInstitutefuer
Publizistik at the University of Mainz, Germany, and visiting professor
in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma.
Hisresearch interests center around cross-national studies of journalism
and political communication. He received three top-paper awards at the
annual conventions of the ICA (1996, 2001, 2003) and has published
four books and various articles in journals such as European Journal
of Communication, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, and
American Behavioral Scientist.

Michael Gurevitch is professor in the College of Journalism at the Uni-
versity of Maryland. Prior to his current position he was on the faculty
of The Open University in England. Besides his recent book, The Crisis
of Public Communication (with Jay Blumler), he has published a large
number of journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor of Mass
Communication and Society (1977), Culture, Society and the Media
(1982), and Mass Media and Society (1991, 1995, 2001). He served as as-
sociate editor of the Journal of Communication and is currently a member
of the editorial board of Journalism Studies.

Daniel C. Hallin is Professor of Communication at the University of
California at San Diego. His research interests include media and war,
media and elections, the development of journalism as a profession,
and comparative analysis of media systems, particularly focusing on the
United States, Western Europe, and Latin America. He recently pub-
lished, with Paolo Mancini, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of
Media and Politics (2004).

Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communication at the Univer-
sity of Mainz, Germany. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University
of Muenster in 1978, she held positions as assistant professor at the
University of Munich and full professor at the University of Bochum,
Germany. She was visiting professor at the University of Minnesota in
1986 and a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Poli-
tics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, Cambridge, in 1999. From
1998–2002 she was chair of the Political Communication division of the
German Communication Association (DGPuK), and since 2002 she has
been chair of the Political Communication division of the ICA. She pub-
lished several books, including the German Communication Yearbook

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