Knut De Swert is a lecturer at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. At the moment, he is finishing his PhD at the University of Antwerp (promotor: Prof. dr. Stefaan Walgrave, title: “Where is the balance in the news? The determinants of balanced coverage of political news sources in television news”). Other research interests: extreme right and the media, sensationalism, media bias, representation of minorities on television, quality of television news etc.