Tabe Bergman Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Tabe Bergman attained BA degrees in Journalism and American Studies, and an MA degree in American Studies. He was a freelance journalist, a web editor and a global news editor with the Associated Press.

After realizing that his true interest lies in researching journalism, he started a PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He graduated in 2013 and taught at Renmin University in Beijing. In 2017 he joined XJTLU.

His main teaching interests are media theory, digital media and journalism. His main research interest is western journalism, specifically the reporting of foreign news.


  • PhD, Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
  • MA, American Studies (with distinction), University of Amsterdam, 2007
  • BA, American Studies, Utrecht University, 2003
  • BA, Journalism, Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, 2002


  • Associate professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2022-present
  • Assistant professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2017-2022
  • Assistant professor, Renmin University, 2013-2016
  • Global news editor, Novum Nieuws, 2007-2008
  • Global news editor, Associated Press, 2004-2007
  • Web editor, University of Amsterdam, 2004


  • Bergman, Tabe and Eric Van de Beek. 2022. "Fake WMDs all over again? How Dutch newspapers supported western propaganda on an alleged chemical attack in Syria." Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World (16)3: 199-217.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. "Manufacturing foreign news from afar: Views from an editor’s desk." Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies.
  • Pedro-Carañana, Joan, Tabe Bergman, Tabe, and Juan Antonio Carbonell-Asíns. 2020. “Research design for a comparative analysis of the media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.” The International Journal of Communication Ethics 17(3/4), 35-51.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2020. "Extreme moderation? Critical political economy as the blindspot of Dutch Journalism Studies." Democratic Communique 29(1): 97-115.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2019. “‘Old-new’ directions for political communication: taking Michael Parenti’s media criticism as a guide.” Frontiers in Communication 4:1-5.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2017. “Prophet, gadfly, polemicist, conscience of America? The US press versus Noam Chomsky.” Journalism Studies 18(11): 1453-1469.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2014. “The case for a Dutch propaganda model.” International Journal of Communication 8: 2298-2317.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2014. “Following Washington’s lead: the Dutch press on the run-up to the war in Iraq.” International Communication Gazette 76(2): 109-127.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2013. “Liberal or radical? Rethinking Dutch media history.” Javnost-The Public 3: 93-108.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2013. “Relevant but long since absent: re-establishing a political economy of the Dutch media.” International Journal of Communication 7: 722-740.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2011. “Polite conquest? The New York Times and The Nation on the American occupation of Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies 2: 33-49.


  • Bergman, Tabe and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman (eds.). In Press. Media, dissidence and the war in Ukraine. London: Routledge.
  • Hearns-Branaman, Jesse Owen and Tabe Bergman (eds). 2022. Journalism and foreign policy. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe and Eric van de Beek (eds). 2018. Nepnieuwsexplosie: desinformatie in de Nederlandse media [Fake news explosion: disinformation in the Dutch media]. Groningen: De Blauwe Tijger.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2014. The Dutch media monopoly: a political-economic analysis of the crisis in journalism in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: VU University Press.


  • Bergman, Tabe. In Press. “Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in a Dutch newspaper? De Volkskrant versus Seymour Hersh.” In: T. Bergman and J. O. Hearns-Branaman (eds.). Media, dissidence and the war in Ukraine. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. In Press. “Introduction: The war in Ukraine and foreign news reporting.” In: T. Bergman and J. O. Hearns-Branaman (eds.). Media, dissidence and the war in Ukraine. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. "Public service broadcasting in Europe and the USA." In: T. Pellegrini and J. Krone (eds), Handbook of Media and Communication Economics. Berlin: Springer.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. “American news on Haiti: The enduring imperial mindset.” In J.O. Hearns-Branaman and T. Bergman (eds), Journalism and Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe and Fangyuan Liu. 2022. “The western media on the war in Afghanistan: Still mirroring official views.” In J.O. Hearns-Branaman and T. Bergman (eds), Journalism and Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe and Jesse Owen Hearns Branaman. 2022. "Introduction: The enduring nexus between media and foreign policy." In J.O. Hearns-Branaman and T. Bergman (eds), Journalism and Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2020. "Critical political economy and content analysis: a fraught but crucial relationship." In S. Bulut and S. Karlidag (eds.), Handbook of Research on the Political Economy of Communications and Media: 242-255. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2018. “American television: manufacturing consumerism.” In J. Pedro-Caranana, D. Broudy and J. Klaehn (eds). The propaganda model today: filtering perception and awareness: 159-172. London: University of Westminster Press.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2018. “Nieuws als product: hoe de commercie de journalistiek vernielt” [News as product: how commerce destroys journalism]. In T. Bergman and E. van de Beek (eds). Nepnieuwsexplosie: desinformatie in de Nederlandse media: 19-37. Groningen: De Blauwe Tijger.
  • Van de Beek, Eric and Tabe Bergman. 2018. “Inleiding: ‘You are fake news!’” In T. Bergman and E. van de Beek (eds). Nepnieuwsexplosie: desinformatie in de Nederlandse media: 7-17. Groningen: De Blauwe Tijger.


  • Bergman, Tabe. 2023, October 25. “The Future of Journalism: A Roundtable Discussion.” Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2023, October 11. “Public Broadcasting in Europe and the US.” Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2023, October 3. “The Political Interview.” Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2023. “Fake WMDs all over again? How Dutch newspapers supported western propaganda on an alleged chemical attack in Syria.” Discourse Analysis Conference at the University of Valencia. Valencia, Spain, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. "The future of academic conferences." Participant in a plenary roundtable discussion at IAMCR 2022. Online, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. "A world of narratives: Are we in trouble?" Participant in a plenary roundtable discussion at the IAMCR pre-conference "A World of Narratives: Structuring, re-membering and re-claiming the world through communication." Online, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2022. "American news on Haiti: The enduring imperial mindset." International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Online, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2020. "'Britney Spears stumbles, nearly drops baby’: practice-informed reflections on political economy’s intangible meso-level of analysis." International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Online, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2019. “From Europe with love? A comparison of the treatment of Noam Chomsky in a progressive Dutch newspaper and the New York Times.” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Madrid, July.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2019. “American TV: manufacturing consumerism.” The Fourth Audio and Visual Communication Summit of the Global Rhetoric Association – Audio and Visual Communication. Ningbo, April.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2018. “Death by 1,000 budget cuts? Media discourse on budget reductions for Dutch public broadcasting.” IAMCR Post-conference on public broadcasting. Eugene, OR, June.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2018. “The neglect of critical political economy in democratic-corporatist countries: assessing Dutch Journalism Studies.” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Eugene, OR, June.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2015. “Diverging emphasis: Power as an explanatory factor for media behaviour in American vs. Dutch Media Studies.” MediAsia. Kobe, Japan, November.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2013. “Liberal or radical? Rethinking Dutch media history.” National Communication Association (NCA). Washington DC, November.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2013. “Euros over citizens: The Dutch press’s narrow conception of democracy.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Washington DC, August.
  • Bergman, Tabe. 2012. “Digital media, journalism and democracy in the Netherlands.” Union for Democratic Communications (UDC). Tallahassee, FL, May.


  • Deputy Head, Department of Media and Communication, September 2021 to July 2023
  • Line manager, Department of Media and Communication, September 2020 to July 2023
  • Programme Director, MSc Media and Communication, September 2020 to July 2023
  • Head, Department of Media and Communication, September 2020 to August 2021
  • Deputy Head, Department of Media and Communication, May to August 2020
  • Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee, September 2017 to August 2020
  • University Research Funding Sub-committee, September 2017 to August 2019
  • Global Engagement Officer, October 2018 to August 2019


  • Primary supervisor of Yifang Yuan’s PhD project on the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in British and Indian Media. December 2023 to present
  • Primary supervisor of Quy Hoang’s PhD project on Western media portrayal of women in armed conflicts. December 2023 to present
  • Primary supervisor of Heyang Hu's PhD project on European public broadcasting and coverage of Covid. December 2021 to present
  • Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (with distinction), University of Liverpool, 2018
  • Summer school in International Higher Education, Queen Mary University of London, 2018


  • COM418 Global Journalism
  • COM413 Sociology of Media Professionals
  • COM406 Research Methods in Communication
  • COM403 Contemporary Media Theories
  • COM305 Final Year Project: Communication Studies
  • COM210 Global Journalism
  • COM201 Media Theory
  • COM157 Introduction to Journalism Studies
  • COM112 Investigative Journalism
  • COM105 Journalism: Theory and Practice


  • Editorial Board, Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, March 2021 to present
  • Editorial Board, Frontiers in Political Communication, October 2018 to August 2022
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA), July 2018 to present
  • Member, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), February 2016 to present
Tabe Bergman