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Manuela Preoteasa is a lecturer with the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, at the University of Bucharest, and the founder and publisher of Euractiv.ro, the Romanian independent branch of the EurActiv network – a Brussels-based pan-European partnership of portals covering EU policies. She has authored a series of studies focused on media ownership, pluralism and independence. She is a former visiting scholar at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and a past Marshall Memorial Fellow. Andrei Schwartz is a civil society expert and researcher who studies post-communist democratisation processes, sustainable development policies, and media pluralism. He has worked in several international research projects coordinated by organisations such as COMPAS (University of Oxford), the European Journalism Centre, or the Centre for European Policy Studies, and has authored a series of reports and articles in the fields of post-communist constitutionalism and media pluralism.