Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Antonis Kalogeropoulos is a Communication and Media Lecturer at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Before he joined that institution, he worked at the University of Liverpool. He is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is a co-author of the Digital News Report, an annual survey of news consumption patterns in 36 countries. He also co-authored a report about attribution of news brands in a distributed media landscape. In 2016, he co-authored a report on online news video production, consumption and monetization patterns. Antonis has used survey and interview data from the Digital News Project to further examine online and social media participation and online news video consumption patterns in a comparative perspective.

Antonis acquired a PhD from the University of Southern Denmark. His doctoral work focused on the effects of exposure to economic news on political attitudes, economic expectations and citizen’s sophistication. His background is in Communications and Mass media (BA from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and in Corporate Communications (MSc from the University of Manchester), while he spent a semester as a visiting PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. He has published in various outlets including Journalism and the European Journal of Communication. These can be found in his Google Scholar profile.