Jorge Gallardo Camacho
	Department of Journalism Faculty of Communication Sciences San Jorge University Campus Universitario Villanueva de Gállego, Autov. A-23 Zaragoza, 50830 Phone: (34) 976 060 100 Fax: (34) 976 077 581 jgallardo@usj.es, jagallardo@uma.es Jorge Gallardo holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Málaga, and an MBA in Business in TV Companies from the University of Salamanca. He won the Spanish National Award for Outstanding Graduate in Audiovisual Communication. His research focuses on the Internet. His doctoral thesis focused on the YouTube phenomenon and its relationship to traditional television. He published the book La televisión tradicional quiere gobernar Internet (Traditional television wants to govern the Internet). He has also published articles in academic journals, for instance “El redactor-traductor en los grandes medios de comunicación: caso CNN” (The editor-translator in the large media: the case of CNN), in Zer. He founded a research group on new technologies called “Labcom” at the University of Málaga in 2002. He continued being part of this research group until 2010 when he joined another research group called “Comunicación y Poder” (Communication and Power), also part of the same university. He became the youngest professor teaching at an MBA degree in Spain, at the school Santillana Formación. He is currently the director of dissertation projects at the San Jorge University of Zaragoza. He is part of the production team of Antena 3’s magazine show “3D”. His professional career began in Atlanta at CNN’s headquarters where he covered the 9/11 attacks. He then returned to Spain where he finished his bachelor’s degree and worked at Radio Nacional de España and Cadena SER in Malaga. His first work in television was presenting and directing the local news programmes of Localia Televisión in the city of Jaén, Andalucía. Simultaneously, he also worked as newspaper writer for Diario Jaén, and as a host in a radio gossip show. He also worked in Aragón Televisión, where he directed and implemented the show Aragón en Abierto (Aragon Live), consolidated the morning magazine show “Sin ir más lejos” (Without going any further), and directed special programmes such as the closing ceremony of Expo de Zaragoza, which had record braking audience level. He became one of youngest TV programme directors in Spain.