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Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory, and images, particularly in times of crisis. She has authored or edited fifteen books, including the award-winning About To Die: How News Images Move the Public (Oxford, 2010) and Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (Chicago, 1998), and over 150 articles, book chapters, and essays. The Journalism Manifesto (co-authored with Pablo Boczkowski and C.W. Anderson) will be published by Polity Press in December 2021.

In 2020, Zelizer was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Freedom Forum Center Research Fellowship; a Fellowship from Harvard University鈥檚 Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy; a Fellowship from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; a Fulbright Senior Scholar; a Fellowship from Stanford University鈥檚 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and an ACLS Fellowship. Zelizer is also a media critic, whose work has appeared in The Nation, PBS News Hour, CNN, The Huffington Post, Newsday, Liberation, and other media organizations.

Coeditor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and former Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, she is a past President of the International Communication Association, where she is also a Fellow, and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. She is a former Judge of the Peabody Awards for Excellence in Electronic Media, and her work has been translated into French, Korean, Turkish, Romanian, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and Portuguese. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled How the Cold War Drives the News.

Mollica holds a B.A. in Communication from Temple University and an M.S. in Communication from Purdue University. With over 25 years of experience in television, radio, and public relations, he is a seasoned specialist in strategic communication. Mollica has worked in the Philadelphia and New York media markets, covering major milestones in news and sports, including the World Series, Stanley Cup Playoffs, and NBA and NFL playoffs. In 2003, he was instrumental in launching Fox News Radio, where he led coverage of significant events such as the 2003 East Coast blackout, the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election Night.
As an award-winning public relations professional, Mollica has worked with a wide range of clients in the areas of manufacturing and environmental communications, retail, finance, healthcare, economic development, and the nonprofit sector. He has developed and adapted crisis communication plans for environmental and healthcare clients and led training sessions on the local, state, and federal levels of government on social media best practices. In 2016, he was feted with a Gold Award from the Hermes Creative Awards for "The Secrets of Power Pitching." He has also appeared on media outlets nationally and internationally for his expertise in the areas of social media strategy, sports marketing, crisis communications, and politics. He previously taught at American University in Washington, D.C.