KOLDOBIKA
MESO AYERDI

Koldobika Meso Ayerdi is a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is Director of the same department. He holds a PhD in Journalism and a Master's degree in El Correo from the UPV/EHU. He has teaching experience in undergraduate subjects in journalistic genres and writing (News genres, Writing and creation of web content), innovation (Media Models) and technology (Print media technology). At postgraduate level, he teaches subjects related to online journalism in Master in Social Communication. He has published more than a hundred works in the form of chapters, books and articles in quality academic journals, more than twenty of which are included in indexes and impact positions (JCR, Social Science Citation Index, Scopus). He has presented more than hundred papers and communications at national and international conferences. These publications have been developed in the framework of her continuous participation in more than a dozen research projects funded in competitive public calls, including a European project (Foresight Erasmus+), projects of the Spanish National Research & Development Plan, UPV/EHU university projects, regional projects (Eusko Jaurlaritza/Basque Government) and projects of the Basque Studies Society - Eusko Ikaskuntza. Also, he is the Principal Investigator of the project ‘News, networks and users in the hybrid media system’, together with Dr. Simón Peña Fernández. He has also led Educational Innovation Projects and has participated in another three as a researcher, within the framework of the activities of the KZBerri Educational Innovation Specialised Group, distinguished with an IKD teaching mention by the UPV/EHU's Educational Advisory Service. He has led and participated in several relevant research and transfer contracts with public entities (Euskal Irrati Telebista/Radiotelevisión Pública Vasca). He has four recognised six-year research periods. He has given teaching lectures at the University of Beira Interior (Portugal, 2013), Porto (Portugal, 2015), Minho (Portugal, 2016), Wroclaw (Polonia, 2017) and the Philological School of Higher Education (Polonia 2019).