Shanghai University, the University of Amsterdam, Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal, and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He founded and was chair of the World Media Economics and Management Conference, a biennial global gathering of scholars and practitioners, for a quarter of a century. He has consulted for media firms on four continents and provided testimony and consulting in court cases, congressional and parliamentary hearings, and administrative hearings in North America and Europe. He regularly works with media associations worldwide and is widely quoted in both the trade publications and the general press. An annual award for the best published work was named after him by the Media Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2000 and the European Media Management Education Association presented him it 2010 award for lifetime contributions to the field. External links http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ https://law.yale.edu/robert-picard http://www.robertpicard.net/ http://themediabusiness.blogspot.com/ https://oxford.academia.edu/RobertPicardp https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bHM4E_EAAAAJ Selected bibliography Robert G. Picard, “Limits of the First Amendment and Antitrust Law in Platform Governance and Media Reform,” First Amendment Law Review, 18(2):94-122 (2020). Robert G. Picard, “The Sisyphean Pursuit of Media Pluralism: European Efforts to Establish Policy and Measurable Evidence”, Communication Law and Policy, 22(3):255–273 (2017). Robert G. Picard. The Economics and Financing of Media Companies, 2nd edition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Robert G. Picard. “A Note on Economic Losses Due to Theft, Infringement, and Piracy of Protected Works,” Journal of Media Economics, 17(3):207-217 (2004). Robert G. Picard. “Twilight or New Dawn of Journalism? Evidence from the Changing News Ecosystem,” Journalism Studies, 15(4): 1-11 (2014). Robert G. Picard. “Isolated and particularised: The state of contemporary media and communications policy research,” Javnost/The Public, 23(2):135-152 (2016). Robert G. Picard. “Money, Media, and the Public Interest,” pp. 337-350 in Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. The Institutions of Democracy: The Press. Oxford University Press, 2005. Robert G. Picard. “The Challenges of Public Functions and Commercialized Media,” pp. 211-229 in Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris, eds. The Politics of News: The News of Politics. 2nd edition. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007. Robert G. Picard. “Funding Digital Journalism: The Challenges of Consumers and the Economic Value of News,” in Bob Franklin and Scott A. Eldridge II, eds. Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. London: Routledge, 2016. Robert G. Picard. “Financial Challenges of 24-Hour News Channels,” in Richard Sambrook and Stephen Cushion eds., The Future of