Dr. Sallie Hughes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Journalism in the School of Communication at the University of Miami. She coordinates the Latin American region of the Worlds of Journalism Study, the largest cross-national study of journalists' working conditions, professional values and occupational epistemologies. In this round, the study assess risks and safety as well. Hughes was part of a team of invited academic researchers who advised Reporters Without Borders on the methodology of their annual Press Freedom Index. She is the author of Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico and co-author of Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City. Her current research interests include journalist safety, coping and resiliency.