Roni Dorot Joins CMDS as Researcher

We are happy to announce that Roni Dorot has joined our team as a researcher of the Media Influence Matrix project.

Roni received her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, and holds a MA in Public Policy from Tel-Aviv University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery, at the School of Public Policy, CEU, where she taught the course "Contentious Politics: Social Movements, Civil Protest and the State". Her dissertation, entitled “Dead End: Israeli Militarism and the Dynamics of State Retribution”, examines the history of political revenge and the genealogy of retaliation discourses in the Jewish press within the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Her previous research analyzed the governmental outcomes of Israeli municipalities from a comparative perspective. She is a recipient of the Sapir Price for municipal studies (in Israel), the Istituto Italiano di Cultura scholarship and the EUI excellence fellowship.

She is the author of ‘Documania’ blog at Haaretz newspaper, where she critically analyses documentaries from a cultural and sociological perspective.

CMDS is running Media Influence Matrix as part of a global research and advocacy alliance, the Media and Power Research Consortium, consisting of more than 50 organizations, including academic institutions, advocacy groups, journalist networks and NGOs. The main goal of the research project is to investigate the profound impact that rapid shifts in policy, sources of funding and technology companies are having on journalism today. Each country report consists of three studies, covering politics and policy, journalism funding and technology.