Banu Baybars-Hawks is a Professor and the Chair of the Public Relations Department in the Faculty of Communications at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2002. Her research interests include media studies, media law, the political economy of media, and terrorism. She has published articles in numerous journals, including the International Journal of the Humanities, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies. Dr Baybars-Hawks is the author of Freedom’s Razored Edge: Terrorism and Media Controls in the United States and Turkey (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010), and the editor of a number of volumes, including Crisis, Compromise, and Elite Discourse in the Age of ‘War on Terror’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), New Challenges, New Opportunities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reputation Management (Reputation Management Institute of Turkey, 2013), and Corporate Reputation: In Theory and Practice (Reputation Management Institute of Turkey, 2014).