DANILO ARAÑA ARAO is a professor at the Department of Journalism, University of the Philippines Diliman College of Media and Communication (UPD CMC).
He is also a faculty affiliate at the UPD Center for International Studies (CIS) and a special lecturer at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Sta. Mesa. He is the editor of Media Asia, a refereed journal published by the Asian Media Information and Communication (AMIC) Centre and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
As regards his journalism practice, he writes a column in Filipino ("Konteksto") for Pinoy Weekly (https://www.pinoyweekly.org) and serves as the associate editor of Bulatlat (https://www.bulatlat.com).
He has a Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.) degree from the Institut für Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany).
For more information about him, please visit his blog at https://risingsun.dannyarao.com. To know his major book projects, please go to https://pages.upd.edu.ph/dannyarao.