Raluca Radu is a professor of journalism and communication studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and the former Director of the Department of Journalism (2015-2023). She is a PhD coordinator within the Doctoral School in Communication Studies and the Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies, at the University of Bucharest.
Her research interests include media ethics, media economics and audience studies (with a focus on digital audiences and on teenagers), and radicalization on social media. She is the author of the Romanian page, in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, and a researcher in the Romanian team for PROMPT (Predictive Research On Misinformation and Narratives Propagation Trajectories). She authored and coordinated five books in Romanian on public communication ethics, media economics, data visualization, cultural industries and national and international organizations.
Raluca Radu had visiting fellowships at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark; Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland; European University Institute, Italy and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Germany.