Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, has been appointed as one of a new team of co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication.
Dr Madrid-Morales will take up the four-year post in September 2026.
The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association (ICA), the largest worldwide academic organisation devoted to the study of communication, with more than 4,500 members across 87 countries.
First published in 1951 and now published by Oxford University Press, it is one of the most cited and most highly regarded titles in the field, with a 2025 impact factor of 5.3 and CiteScore of 8.6.
Dr Madrid-Morales joins an international editorial team that also includes Herman Wasserman (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Julia Sonnevend (The New School for Social Research, USA), Weiyu Zhang (National University of Singapore) and Sung-Un Yang (Boston University, USA). Spread across four continents, the team reflects the journal's ambition to widen its global reach.
The incoming editors describe their approach as one of continuity and renewal. With the journal long established in the field, their aim is to sustain and extend its reputation and reach while keeping it agile in a fast-changing publishing landscape. Their stated priorities include broadening the intellectual core of communication, cultivating globally inclusive and interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing research on trust, authenticity and AI, strengthening dialogue between sub-disciplines, and improving the experience of the authors who publish there.
Dr Madrid-Morales said: "It's a real privilege to be part of the team taking the Journal of Communication into a new era. Academic publishing faces serious challenges, but this is also a moment when communication, in its broadest sense, is transforming everyday life at extraordinary speed, from social media to large language models. Helping shape how the field's flagship journal makes sense of that is an exciting responsibility."
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