Cornelia Wolf appointed university professor for online communication
On 1 October, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wolf took up the professorship for online communication at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies.
Professorship for Journalism Research
Current
Profile
Prof. Dr. Markus Beiler and the journalism staff deal with journalism in research and teaching under the conditions of digital and social change. The professorship for journalism research is responsible for the master’s degree in journalism.
Focuses
In the program M.Sc. Journalism, students learn to accompany the digital transformation of journalism and to help shape it in an innovative way. To this end, the course combines basic journalistic training with computer science skills and knowledge of applied journalism research. The program M.Scc. Journalism purposefully combines academic studies with systematic professional orientation. The three-year course includes a traineeship in an editorial office. The course is the responsibility of the Professorship for Journalism Research. Learn more.
The research program of the Professorship for Journalism Research deals with the implications of the dynamic change in journalism and public communication, which is driven by technological developments, in particular digitization, as well as social and societal changes, such as increased user participation and economic contexts. The focus is on the areas of structures and working methods of data journalism, the challenges of digitization in daily newspapers, and the editorial organizational form of cross-media newsdesk and newsroom structures. Learn more.
The Center for Journalism and Democracy (JoDem) is dedicated to the issue of trust in the media and politics, wants to understand the causes of skepticism in all its complexity and, by imparting skills, empower citizens to actively participate in democratic-political processes and the production of journalistic reporting . As an interdisciplinary institution, JoDem combines perspectives from communication and media studies, political science, and educational science at the University of Leipzig. Learn more.
The professorship for journalism research operates a 108m² cross-media teaching editorial office with a news desk and production islands for practical journalism training. The teaching editorial office can be used freely by journalism students for study purposes. Editing processes can also be simulated in the training editing department for research purposes. The journalism research laboratory is also available for research. Learn more.
Team
The team consists of Prof. Dr. Markus Beiler, the Karl Bücher guest professorship for the future of journalism, the research associates for journalism at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies and at the "Center for Journalism and Democracy at the University of Leipzig" and the secretary’
Research
We are dedicated to empirical journalism research. The focus is on journalism under the conditions of dynamic digital and social change. This aims at currently relevant issues and challenges as well as at basic research.
Facilities
For teaching and research, the Professorship for Journalism Research has a teaching editorial team and the Journalism Research Laboratory. The "ARD News Arche" collects radio news. The "Center for Journalism and Democracy" researches trust and develops transfer formats.
Contact & Directions
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