Dr Vera-Slavtcheva Petkova

Dr Vera-Slavtcheva Petkova (vpetkova@liverpool.ac.uk), Reader in Global Journalism and Media, University of Liverpool, UK / Worlds of Journalism Study Executive Board Member: Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova is Reader in Global Journalism and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK as well as Central and Eastern Europe Regional Coordinator in the Worlds of Journalism Study and the Journalism Research Safety Network. She is the author of Global Journalism: An Introduction (with Professor Michael Bromley, Palgrave, 2018), Russia’s Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free (Routledge, 2018) and Discussing Trump’s America Online: Digital Commenting in China, Mexico and Russia (Palgrave, 2023). She is also the Project Leader of a new one-stop online portal on journalists’ safety to be launched by July 2023 as a joint initiative between the University of Liverpool and the Worlds of Journalism Study in cooperation with UNESCO – safetyofjournalists.org.