Gintaras Aleknonis is Partnership Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is the author of The New Censorship (2011) and two other books on histories of Lithuanian Radio and Television: Lithuanian Radio: One Day and 80 Years (2006) and Lithuanian Television: The Colours and the Shadows of the Screen (2007). He was a broadcaster for international media organisations in Munich and Prague, and for the Lithuanian National Radio in Vilnius.