In September 2022, Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch was called to join the editorial board of the Journal of Communication. In the upcoming years she will support the work of the four incoming editors-in chief David R. Ewoldsen (Michigan State University, USA), Natascha Just (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Chul-joo "CJ" Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea) und Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association published by Oxford University Press. Due to its far reaching international circulation and the high impact-factor of its issues it belongs to the 10 leading academic journals in discipline of communication studies.