Participants
(participants in alphabetical order)
Wolfgang Blau, editor in chief of Zeit Online. From 1999 to 2008 he worked as journalist for newspapers and magazines, radio and television. He was also managing editor of BLR-Radiodienst Munich. In 1999, he developed and produced AudioWELT, the first audio portal of a European newspaper with a daily audio summary. In 2003, he developed the concept for the new online-audio department of Die Zeit. He also initiated the development of the online audiobook platform Audible-Germany, a joint venture of Bertelsmann, Holtzbrinck and Audible USA. His blog and podcast about the Tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia for ZDF, was nominated for the Grimme Online Award.
Sylvia Egli von Matt, director of MAZ – the Swiss School of Journalism. Vice-President of the European Journalism Training Association; Member of the Committee for European Competency Standards in Journalism Education; Vice-Ombudsman of SRG SSR idée suisse; co-editor of the journal “Schweizer Journalist”; co-author of “Das Porträt”. She hast also been working as journalist in print and radio for over 20 years.
Barbara Eppensteiner, programme director of the Austrian community TV-station Okto. She started her carrier in the field of media education and was head of wienXtra. wienXtra plans and implements participative projects, e.g. the festival for young filmmakers wienervideo&filmtage. She is working for Okto since 2005 (http://okto.tv).
Susanne Fengler, is university professor for international journalism at the Institute of Journalism at the University of Dortmund. She is also head of the Erich-Brost-Institut for journalism in Europe (www.brost.org). She has also worked at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich and has lectured on journalism at the Universities of Basel and Luzern and at the International Institute of Journalism in Berlin. Since 2008 she is university professor for international journalism at the University of Dortmund. Her latest book ist “Politikjournalismus” – political journalism. Research Interests: international comparative studies on journalism, political journalism, economic theories on journalism.
Marcello Foa, is special correspondent for international affairs at the italian daily newspaper il Giornale. In 2004, along with Professor Dr. Stephan Russ-Mohl, Marcello Foa founded the European Journalism Observatory at Università della Svizzera Italiana, in Lugano, Switzerland. He lectures regularly on international journalism and political spin at the Università della Svizzera italiana and Università Cattolica in Milan. His academic research is focused on political spin and he authored the book “The wizards of news”.
Jose A. García Avilés, head of the Journalism Area at the University Miguel Hernández de Elche (Spain), has carried out comparative research on the influence of digitalisation in television news and on newsroom convergence since 2000. He has published over forty academic articles and his latest book is “The Convergence Challenge for Broadcast News”.
Michał Głowacki, Institute of Political Science, Wrocław University. He ist associate editor of “Central European Journal of Communication” – the official journal of polish communication association. Research Interests: Media systems, media policy; public service media, self-regulaction, co-regulation.
Bruno Ingemann, consultant and he lectures at the Danish School of Journalism. He was six years at Nordjyske Medier as editor and mediaconductor and 16 years at DR (Danish broadcasting company).
Alexis Johann, head of department online of Wirtschaftsblatt. He came to the Austrian business newspaper WirtschaftsBlatt, part of Styria Media Group, in 2007 and helped to organize the flow of information across various platforms out of an integrated newsroom, where print and online editors work head-to-head. He was responsible for the launch of the online and mobile editions of the paper and is member of the editorial board. Before he joined WirtschaftsBlatt, he was eCommerce-Consulter, author and journalist for the Austrian business magazine “trend”.
Andy Kaltenbrunner, researcher and media consulter in Austria, Germany and Spain. He worked as a political journalist and editor in chief for newspapers and magazines (e.g. the weekly Profil) since the early 1980s. He has developed several media-projects, print and online. He initiated and led the development of the Journalism-Programme on the Fachhochschule Wien (University for Applied Sciences) in Vienna (2003) and co-founded Medienhaus Wien (2005).
Matthias Karmasin, is professor of journalism at the University of Klagenfurt. He has also worked at the University for Economics and Business in Vienna, the University of Vermont/Burlington, the University of Tampa/Florida, the University of Karlsruhe, the Institute for Media and Communication Science at the University of Technology in Ilmenau. Until 2008 Karmasin was head of the Institute for Media and Communication Science at the University of Klagenfurt. He ist also vice-chairman of the Commission for Comparativ Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research Interests: media economy and media ethics.
Daniela Kraus, managing director of Medienhaus Wien. She has researched the development of media qualification needs, coordinated the development of FHW-Programme Journalism (University for Applied Sciences Vienna) and lectured in Journalism at the University for Applied Sciences in Vienna, the University of Klagenfurt and the University of Vienna. Since 2005, Kraus has been managing director of Medienhaus Wien and has developed and managed several research projects on media and journalism as well as training and education activities (for a list of recent projects see www.medienhaus-wien.at).
Scott Maier, is associate professor at the University of Oregon – School of Journalism and Communication. In 2009, he was a visiting research fellow at the European Journalism Observatory, Universita della svizzera italiana. For his research on media accuracy, Maier received (with Philip Meyer) the Sigma Delta Chi award for Research about Journalism. A 20-year newspaper and wire-service veteran, Maier has covered city hall, the state legislature, Latin America, and a variety of other news beats. He was founder of CAR Northwest, an industry-academic partnership providing training in computer-assisted reporting to newsrooms and journalism classrooms. He also served on the adjunct faculty at the University of Washington School of Communication. His research interests include online news coverage, newsroom numeracy, media accuracy, and managing technological change.
Klaus Meier, is professor for cross-media and media convergence at the Institute of Journalism of Dortmund University of Technology (Germany). From 2001 to 2009 he was professor of journalism studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, where he was head of the programmes “Online Journalism” (2003 to 2005) and “Science Journalism” (2005 to 2007) and dean of study in the faculty for media (2007 to 2008). From 1996 to 2001 he was assistant professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he earned a Dr. phil. in communication science. He has worked as a coach and consultant in about 40 workshops with several media and journalists in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore and Bangkok. He is a former newspaper and television journalist (1989 to 1994). Research Interests: editorial management, innovations in newsrooms, convergence, online journalism, science journalism and journalism education.
Bernd Merkel, head of the master programme “Journalism” at MAZ – the Swiss School of Journalism. He has worked as a journalist for over 25 years. Among others he was editor and producer of newsprogramms on Süddeutscher Rundfunk (national public broadcasting company in Germany), head of the editorial office of Puls Tip and production director of the programme Räz on TV3.
Philip Meyer began his newspaper career in 1944 as a substitute carrier for the Clay Center (Kansas) Dispatch. After graduation from Kansas State University, where he was editor of the daily Collegian, he served in the Navy, did reporting and editing for the Topeka Daily Capital, then studied and taught political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for an M.A. degree. Those experiences led to a 23-year career with Knight Ridder newspapers as a Miami Herald reporter, Washington correspondent, and director of news and circulation research on the corporate staff. He returned to Chapel Hill as a Kenan professor in 1981 and retired as holder of its Knight Chair in Journalism in 2008. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1966-1967. In 2000, the American Association for Public Opinion Research gave him its highest honor, the AAPOR award for distinguished achievement. He is author of the book “The Vanishing Newspaper”.
Romanus Otte, general manager Welt Online. He has been working as journalist for over 20 years, starting 1988 in the german press agency dpa. From 1991 to 1997 he was correspondent for economics for Welt am Sonntag and dpa and later he was head of the economics department of dpa, as well as founder, editor in chief and CEO of dpa/AFX. He was also editor in chief and CEO of Business Networld and head of news department and later head of politics department of Financial Times Deutschland.
Hermann Petz, is CEO of Moser Holding AG. He started his career at the Tiroler Sparkasse AG from 1981 to 1990 in the fields organisation and IT, shareholding and special financing. In 1990 he became assistant to the executive board of the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Hermann Petz promoted to commercial manager in 1992. Five years later Petz became a member of the executive board and in 2002 he had the sole operative responsibility of the Moser Holding AG and has been CEO since 2003. He is a member of the executive board and commitee of the Association of Austrian Newspapers (Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen, VÖZ), CEO of the Austrian Press Agency (Austria Presse Agentur, APA) and is Austria’s delegate to the ENPA (European Publishers Association).
Antoni Maria Piqué i Fernàndez, media consultant and associate professor at the Journalism School at the International University of Catalunya. Before working as a media consultant he has been a professional journalist – from reporter to executive editor. Since 1991, he has been consulting on newsroom organization and content development at a hundred media brands from 59 companies in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. These projects range from small to big media; from print to web; from reporting training to editorial strategy and to newsroom convergence. All projects were and are mainly based on the content operations –the journalism– and focused on how to improve them from the newsroom to the boardroom. He has also lectured on journalism at the School of Journalism/University of Navarra and at the Institute for Social Sciences in Sao Paulo.
Colin Porlezza, research and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Lugano and collaborator of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO). He is working on a dissertation project about the “Bridges over the Chinese wall – newsrooms in the focus of economic and journalistic interests”. He is also working as a free lance for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and other German speaking print media.Research Interests: relationship between journalism, advertising and public relations, media economy and quality management in journalism.
David Röthler, trainer, consultant and journalist in the fields of political communication, media and European funding. He teaches at journalism schools in Austria and Germany. His focus is on participatory journalism and social media. Furthermore he has profound experience with the management of international projects. He is founder of the consultancy PROJEKTkompetenz.eu GmbH. Personal Weblog: politik.netzkompetenz.at
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief Guardian News & Media. He has been editor of the Guardian since 1995. A graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he began his journalistic career on the Cambridge Evening News. He first joined the Guardian in 1979 as a reporter, subsequently working as a columnist and feature writer. In 1986 he became a critic for the Observer, moving to America the following year to be Washington Correspondent of the London Daily News. On returning to the Guardian he launched Guardian Weekend magazine and G2 – Britain’s first compact sections in the quality market. He was appointed editor by the Scott Trust, which has owned the Guardian since 1936. His editorship has been notable for pioneering the development of the paper’s digital edition, twice voted the best newspaper website in the world, as well as for launching the paper in the popular European “Berliner” format in 2005. He is alsonoted for fighting, and winning, a number of high-profile legal cases involving freespeech issues and corruption in government. In his years as editor he has wonNewspaper of the Year several times, as well as several awards as editor of theyear. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, London. He is also Chair of the National Youth Orchestra. In his spare time he writes childrens’ books and plays chamber music and golf.
Stephan Ruß-Mohl, is professor of journalism and media management at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; director of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) since October of 2003; professor for journalism and media management at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 1985-2001; director of the continuing education program for journalists at the Freie Universität Berlin since 1986; director of the Journalisten-Kolleg since 1999; Visiting Fellow 1995 and 1999, Department of Communication, Stanford University; Visiting Fellow 1992, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European UniversityInstitute, Florence/Italy; Visiting Fellow 1989, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison/USA; studies in public administration/public policy at the University of Konstanz and at Princeton University; professional training in journalism at the Deutsche Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism), Munich.
Cinzia Dal-Zotto, is Professor of Media Management at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, since 2008. Before that she was Research Director at the Media Management and Transformation Centre and Associate Professor at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. Dal Zotto received her PhD in Organizational and Human Resource Development at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Between 2001 and 2003 she had a post doc scholarship funded by the German Ministry of Education and her research dealt with new ventures’ growth in the media sector. In that program she supervised doctoral students and was a consultant for start-up firms.
