Biography
Dr Nobuyuki Okumura is a Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at Musashi University, Japan, and has been teaching within the department of Media Sociology since 2014. His research interests include Journalism Politics and Media, Media Ethics, and Digital Journalism Fact Checking. He earned a master’s degree in International Relations from Sophia University in Tokyo in 1989, and later joined the news division of TV Asahi, working as a producer for its News Station programme. He also served as a reporter in the station’s political news and editing departments. Professor Okumura has been a visiting scholar at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies within the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, United States, and Professor in the College of Social Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
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