Jad Melki
Jad Melki , Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and the Director of the Institute of Media Research and Training at the Lebanese American University. He is also a visiting faculty at the Salzburg Academy, an affiliated researcher with ICMPA at the University of Maryland. In 2015, Melki won the UNESCO-UNAoC International Media and Information Literacy Award for advancing media literacy education in the Arab region through founding the Media and Digital Literacy Academy...See more
Jad Melki , Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and the Director of the Institute of Media Research and Training at the Lebanese American University. He is also a visiting faculty at the Salzburg Academy, an affiliated researcher with ICMPA at the University of Maryland. In 2015, Melki won the UNESCO-UNAoC International Media and Information Literacy Award for advancing media literacy education in the Arab region through founding the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut. His research is at the intersection of media literacy, journalism, war, feminism and health communication. He won the 2020 Shoman Arab Researchers Award for his impactful research on media in the Arab World. Previously, Melki was founding director of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and was affiliated with the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, Bournemouth University, and the Jordan Media Institute. As a former journalist, Melki was part of a team that won a Webby Award and a National Press Club Award for covering the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. See less
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