Claude-Jean Bertrand

He has taught US and English Studies (religion, media, politics) at the Universities of Strasbourg and of Paris-10 (Nanterre). He later taught Media Studies at the Institut français de presse (IFP) of the University of Paris-2, where he specialized in the fields of "world media" and "media ethics" and of which he is currently a professor emeritus.

In 1976-1977, an ACLS research fellowship took him for a year to the University of Minnesota and to Stanford U. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Syracuse (USA), the University of Missouri, the Universidad de Navarra (Spain), the Université d'Annaba (Algeria) and the U. de Dakar (Sénégal).

CJB has lectured on media ethics in 58 countries on all five continents. He has done four USIA lecture tours of black Africa; four Alliance française tours in the US, GB and Italy; three tours of Latin America with the Universidad de Navarra. Was invited as 1996 Press Council Fellow by the Australian PC. He has abundantly lectured in Asia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus for various universities and NGOs, for the UNDP, the Council of Europe and the OSCE.

He has authored or edited about 20 books, a majority of which deal with the British and the US press. However, two of his latest titles, deal with "media ethics and accountability systems" (see below). The shorter one has been, or is being, translated into 19 languages, the larger one into three (including Japanese).

From 1976 to 1984, he was managing editor of the journal of the French Association for American Studies - of which he was a vice-president (1978-1986). He now serves on the editorial boards of Journalism (GB), Ethical Space (GB), Media & Jornalismo (Portugal) and Media Ethics (USA). He originally created this website in 2002 under the auspices of the Press Complaints Commission of Great Britain.

Media Ethics and Accountability Systems, New Brunswick (NJ) , Transaction, 2000 - 164 pages [Originally published in French, translated in Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Turkey and the USA. Hindi, Nepalese and Spanish translations in progress].

An Arsenal For Democracy: Media Accountability Systems, Cresskill (NJ), Hampton Press, 2003 - 420 pages. [Originally published in French (Economica, 1999), translated in Brazil (2002) and Japan (2003)].