Robert G. Picard

Now a professor emeritus, he remains a senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a fellow at the Information Society Project of Yale University Law School, author of the blog The Media Business, and was previously editor of The Journal of Media Economics[2] and Journal of Media Business Studies.

He has been a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

He founded and was chair of the World Media Economics and Management Conference, a biennial global gathering of scholars and practitioners, for a quarter of a century.

He regularly works with media associations worldwide and is widely quoted in both the trade publications and the general press.

An annual award for the best published work was named after him by the Media Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2000 [6] and the European Media Management Education Association presented him it 2010 award for lifetime contributions to the field.