Alberto Pena Rodríguez is Professor of History of Communication and Propaganda at the University of Vigo, where he has served as dean, vice dean, and academic secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication. He holds a European Doctorate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Doctorate in History (with special honors) from the UNED. He has been president of the Association of Communication Historians and director of the History Section of the Spanish Association for Communication Research. He has also been a visiting professor or researcher at various universities in the United States, France, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, including Harvard University, the University of California Berkeley, Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. With more than 150 publications and several works translated into English and Portuguese, he is the author of monographs such as Salazar y Franco. La alianza del fascismo ibérico contra la España republicana: diplomacia, prensa y propaganda (2017) and News on the American dream. A history of the Portuguese press in the United States (2020). He has also published articles in numerous international scientific journals, including Media History, Radio Journal, Journal of Iberian & Latin American Research, and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. As a journalist, he worked as a correspondent for Televisión Española (TVE), El Correo Gallego, and Diario 16 de Galicia, as well as a weekly news analyst for Galicia's public radio station, the Radio Galega.