Professor Terhi Rantanen

Academic Board Nominee

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Terhi (MSc; LicSc; DocSc; Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications.

She is the founder of two double degree MSc programmes at LSE, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years. Since the beginning of her career she has been conducting research on globalization and the media, and especially on news organizations.

Terhi’s latest book, Globalization and the Mediawas published in January 2019. Her most recent research project, on The Future of National News Agencies in Europe  seeks to propose alternative futures for national news institutions by collecting and combining data and analysis from and for the industry, working with and within European news agencies.

She served as Chair of the Graduate Studies Sub-Committee (2012-2017).