Dominik Speck is a researcher at the Institute of Journalism and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at TU Dortmund University. He also has several years of experience as a freelance journalist specialized on covering media issues, working mostly for the German trade journal epd medien. He studied journalism and political science at TU Dortmund University, Ruhr University Bochum and Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. In 2020, Dominik worked as a Visiting Researcher at the European Broadcasting Unions’ (EBU) Media Intelligence Service in Geneva, Switzerland. His PhD research project focuses on transparency of public service media in a European cross-country comparison. He has also done fieldwork on media accountability in Myanmar. Other research interests include comparative journalism studies, media policy as well as the role of media and journalism in systems undergoing political transformation.