PAVEL P ANTONOV Pavel P Antonov is an environmental journalist, media researcher, communications consultant, television and film producer, author. He is the Editor in Chief of the BlueLink Information Network , producer of Day of the Earth biweekly environmental programme on Demo Television, and formerly Editor in Chief of Information Programmes Department at Nova Television, Bulgaria. He has worked as television as political and foreign affairs news reporter and editor and presenter of information programmes. Author of more than 10 environmental documentaries mostly inspired by his concern about the deterioration of nature in the Black Sea and its basin. Founder and Chairman of the BlueLink Foundation (Bulgarian partner of the Association for Progressive Communications - Central Europe). Founding member of the Centre for Independent Journalism Foundation, Sofia. His research concerns the relation between media and environment, its contents and impacts. Particularly interested in journalism independence, post communist mass media development, media ethics, and in electronic communication and new media. BA and MA in Journalism and Mass Communications from Sofia University, thesis defended with Honors on "Environmental Media - state and trends in Bulgaria². MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University, Budapest with thesis topic: "Transformations of the environment in mass media: A case study of the mass media coverage and public perceptions of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria². Participant in Dymposium III, The Danube - a River of Life, organised by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in October 1999.