Dimitri Bettoni

Dimitri Bettoni is a researcher and journalist at the Italian think tank Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT). He holds a PhD in journalism, security and surveillance from the Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is currently working on the intersection of journalism and the digital world, with a focus on security and human rights. As a journalist, he has worked for international media, focusing on Turkey and neighboring countries. He is also a founding honorary member of the Foreign Media Association, a representative and advocacy organization created by and for international media professionals based in Turkey, and a member of Info.nodes, an Italian nonprofit organization that advocates for an open and just society through research, campaigning and public interest journalism.