Understanding Foreign Correspondence

Biographical notes

Peter Gross (Volume editor) Gerd G. Kopper (Volume editor)

Peter Gross is Director of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, and a professor specializing in international communication, with a particular focus on East-Central Europe. The author/co-author of eight books and dozens of scholarly articles published in the U.S. and Europe, he was instrumental in establishing a new journalism program at the University of Timisoara West, Romania, and has been the workshop leader and administrator of numerous training programs for foreign journalists in the U.S. and in East-Central Europe over the last 20 years. He was a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and has won numerous research grants and other awards, including one from the Joan Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics at Harvard University. He has taught at universities in China, Hungary, Romania and Spain. Gerd G. Kopper is a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and served as Visiting Scholar of Waseda University in Tokyo. From 1978 to 2006 he was chair for policy, economics and the law of mass media at the Journalism Institute of the University of Dortmund. He initiated and directed the first Centre for Advanced Study in International Journalism (CAS) in Europe at Dortmund, sponsored by the non-profit Erich-Brost-Institute. He has worked as a journalist, editor, foreign correspondent (in Japan), permanent consultant (OECD, Paris), and is author and editor of more than twenty-five books and numerous articles in his fields of expertise. He has served as counselor on a number of government committees in his country and in Europe.