Monroe E. Price, director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, is the 2016 recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy. The award, given annually by the Philosophy of Communication and Communication Law and Policy Divisions of the International Communication Association, will be presented in June at the International Communication Association Annual Conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

Dr. Price’s award recognizes his book, Free Expression, Globalism and the New Strategic Communication (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Building upon themes pioneered by C. Edwin Baker in his masterworks, Dr. Price questions how intense strategic flows of information mesh with contemporary theories of press freedom.

The award also recognizes Dr. Price’s extensive work developing nodes of global communications study and practice. In addition to establishing the Center for Global Communication Studies and serving as a full adjunct professor at Annenberg School for Communication, he founded Oxford University’s Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy and the Center for Data & Media Studies at Central European University.