Professor Claudia Mellado

Honorary Professor of Journalism

International Communications / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Claudia Mellado is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, and a fellow of the Internaitonal Communicaiton Association (ICA). Her research focuses on the study of journalism cultures, journalistic role performance, and comparative studies. Her work has been extensively published in journals such as Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journalism, JMCQ, Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, and Communication Theory. Her last edited book is Beyond journalistic norms. Journalistic role performance and news in comparative perspective (Routledge, 2021). Her award-winning research into journalistic role conceptions and performance has made a major theoretical and empirical contribution to advancing the field, drawing attention to the hybrid nature of journalistic roles, and how journalistic norms conflict with the reality on the ground. In pursuing such groundbreaking comparative research, Professor Mellado has included countries - particularly those in the Global South - that have often eluded empirical attention. Prof. Mellado has thus contributed to the de-Westernization of media and communication research.