Terhi Rantanen (MSc, LicSc, DocSc, Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications. Her books include When News Was New (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) The Media and Globalization (Sage, 2005), The Global and the National. Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield: 2002), The Globalization of News (with O. Boyd-Barrett, Sage: 1998), Maailman ihmeellisin asiä. Johdatus viestinnän oppihistoriaan ( Of All Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful. An Introduction to the History of Communication Research) in collaboration with M. Ampuja, The Finnish Open University: 1997), Foreign News in Imperial Russia: The Relationship between International and Russian News Agencies, 1856-1914 (Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies: 1990) and STT:n uutisiä sadan vuoden varreltä ( News from the Finnish News Agency, STT: One Hundred Years ) (Weilin & Göös: 1987).