Chair of Journalism at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Previously, he was visiting assistant professor at University of Iowa, visiting researcher at University of Tampere and senior lecturer at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research focuses on innovation processes in online communication, with a special interest in the (re)definition of journalistic practices and identities. He is coauthor of Participatory Journalism: guarding open gates at online newspapers (2011, Wiley-Blackwell) and co-editor of Making Online News (2008, 2011, Peter Lang).