Ayala Panievsky is a Presidential Fellow at the Department of Journalism in City, St George’s University of London, a Research Associate at Molad think tank, and a former journalist for Haaretz. She specialises in media under attack, authoritarian populism, and democratic backsliding. Her research was published in leading academic journals like The International Journal of Press/Politics, Digital Journalism, and Democratization, and featured in popular media outlets like the BBC, CNN, ABC, and The News Agents. Panievsky was a Gates-Cambridge Scholar and holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her work received the 2025 AEJMC Dissertation Award, the 2024 ICA Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the 2023 IJPP Best Article of the Year Award, among others.

Her first book, The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down, is now out with Footnote Press.

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