Dr. César Jiménez‑Martínez is Lecturer in Global Media and Communications at Cardiff University. His research focusses on media and nationhood, nation branding, mediated visibility and protest news coverage. He is author of the monograph Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor (with Terhi Rantanen) of Globalization and the Media (2019, Routledge). 

César is a USC Annenberg alumnus. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a double MSc/M.A. in Global Communications from the LSE and the University of Southern California, and a B.A. in Journalism from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Before becoming an academic, César worked as a journalist for newspapers and television stations in Latin America, as well as for Ogilvy Public Relations on different nation branding projects.