Hans Mathias
Kepplinger studied political science, journalism and history in
Mainz, Munich and Berlin. In 1970 he began his doctorate and starting
working as a professor in the area of journalism at the University of
Mainz in 1977. He has been taking on different duties at the Institute
of Journalism at the University of Mainz since 1982, mostly in
management. From 1987 to 1990, he was vice-dean of the social sciences
department, as well as being dean from 1990 to 1993. From 1997 to 1999,
he was a member of the senate at the University of Mainz. He is a member
of several different boards in Germany and abroad.
Marcel Machill is
a tenured professor of journalism, with an emphasis on international
media systems at the University of Leipzig in Germany. His research and
teaching focuses on cross-media, with an emphasis on the electronic
media TV, radio and online magazines. He also works in the areas of
international media politics, search engines, Internet governance, media
competence and journalistic culture. Since 2003, he has regularly been
acting as a project evaluator for media and Internet projects for the
European Commission. In addition to his international academic duties,
he also works as a reporter and editor for print and electronic media,
including Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale und EuronewsTV.
Dr. David Nordfors is
a visiting professor on the program. He is co-founder and Executive
Director of the VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation
Journalism at Stanford University. A Senior Research Scholar at Stanford
University's H-Star Institute, he coined the concepts of Innovation
Journalism (2003) and Attention Work (2006) and started the first
innovation journalism initiatives in Sweden (2003) and at Stanford
(2005). He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council
on the Future of Journalism, as well as the World Economic Forum Global
Redesign Initiative. Nordfors completed a Ph.D. in molecular quantum
physics from the Uppsala University, where he was recruited as a Ph.D.
student by Prof. Kai Siegbahn, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
Physics.
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