Josep Maria Casasús i Guri (Barcelona, 1944), journalist and university professor. Doctor in Information Sciences. He has been dean of the Faculty of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. He was president of the Societat Catalana de Comunicació and of the Sociedad Española de Periodística, and the first dean of Journalism at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). He is a fellow of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. He has been awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi and the Jaume Vicens i Vives distinction for university teaching quality.

Research lines

- Comparative Catalan journalism; 
- Communication of science and of crises; 
- Ethics and deontology in journalism; 
- Business and institutional communication; 
- Nature and structure of rumours.