Karen Ross PhD is Professor of Gender and Media at Newcastle University, UK. Her teaching and research are focused on issues of gender, media, politics and society. She has published numerous papers and books on these topics and her latest monograph Gender, Politics, News was published in 2017 (Wiley-Blackwell). She is editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2020. She was principal investigator on an EU-funded project on Advancing Gender Equality in the Media (2017-2019) and is currently the UK and European regional coordinator for the Global Media Monitoring Project 2020.