JCOM is pleased to announce that four distinguished experts have joined our editorial board recently. They are (from left to right in the image):

• Rick Borchelt (science communication expert and editor, USA)
• Mehita Iqani (Science Communication Chair at Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
• Fabien Medvecky (Associate Professor in Science Communication at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Australia)
• Yi Mou (Associate Professor at the School of Media and Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
• Monika Taddicken (Professor of Communication Science at Technische Universität Braunschweig,TU Braunschweig, Germany.

We are grateful for their willingness to join the JCOM team and look forward to their contributions as JCOM continues to strive to grow its impact as a diamond open-access journal in our field. Visit https://jcom.sissa.it/site/editorial-team/ for a full list of editorial board members, as well as a listing of the teams in the JCOM office taking care of production and software.

Michelle Riedlinger (editor) and Marina Joubert (deputy editor)