Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; co-founder of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement in 1976 and participant in the negotiations on transition to free elections in 1989.

Slavko Splichal, Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana; Director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, and Editor of its journal Javnost-The Public.

Barbie Zelizer, President of the International Communication Association (ICA), Professor at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania.

James Curran, Professor of Communications, Director of the Leverhulme Medias Research Centre, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Karol Jakubowicz, Chair of the Information for All Programme of UNESCO; formerly Director of the Strategy and Analysis Department at the National Broadcasting Council of Poland; and Chairman of the Steering Committee on the Media and New Communication Services at the Council of Europe.

Elihu Katz, Professor at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania.

Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Past President of the International Communication Association (ICA).

Monroe Price, Professor at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania; Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at Annenberg; Chair of the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University in Budapest.

Colin Sparks, Professor of Media Studies at University of Westminster; Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute at Westminster.

Chin-Chuan Lee, Chair Professor and Head of Department, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong.

Ellen Hume, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Research Director of MIT's Center for the Future of Civic Media.  

Hans Kleinsteuber, Professor of Political Science and Communication Studies at University of Hamburg, Chair of the Centre Media and Politics at University of Hamburg.

Andrew Calabrese, Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado; Chair of the Task Force on Media and Communication Policy of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Marc Thompson, Open Society Institute (OSI).

Miklos Sükösd, Associate Professor at Central European University; Chair of the COST A30 Action "East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern European Research Agenda".

Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Professor of Sociology of Mass Communication and Political Communication at the University of Milan; Vice-Chair of the COST A30 Action "East of West"; Board member of the International Communication Association.

Nick Jankowski, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen; Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam; leader of the working group "Comparative Research Methods and New Media Developments" of the COST A30 Action "East of West".

Beata Klimkiewicz, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; Leader of the working group "Media Regulation and Policy" of the COST A30 Action "East of West". 

Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University; legislative advisor for the Parliament and the government of the Republic of Hungary.

Sharon Strover, University of Texas.

Marcel Macchill, University of Leipzig.

Peter Dahlgren, Lund University.

... and many other international participants.