Brankica Petkovic is head of the Center for Media Policy at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana and Editor-in-Chief of the Media Watch book series and Media Watch journal. Her work at the Peace Institute is focused on monitoring, policy research, advocacy, training/education and publishing activities in the field of media accountability (professional standards), access of minority groups and citizens to the media (communication rights of citizens and minority groups), media content diversity and media ownership pluralism. She is author of number of articles and reports and co-author of books on the above mentioned topics. She has been a project leader of number of national and regional research and advocacy projects, including “Media ownership and its impact on media independence and pluralism in South East European and new EU member countries” (2003/04).