Before coming to KU, he was an Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He also held an appointment as Academic Director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University (CEU), where he taught as Associate Professor of Political Science as well. His research interests include media in post-communist countries (Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China), and environmental communication. As Senior Fellow at Media Diversity Institute (London), he gave several curriculum development seminars for professors of journalism at universities in the Middle East and the Caucasus (including Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia).