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How fragile is media credibility? Accountability and transparency in journalism: research, debates, perspectives Final Research Report | Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe
How fragile is media credibility? Accountability and transparency in journalism: research, debates, perspectives
Final Research Report | Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe
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Index | Editorial | Birds-eye view | Opening the toolbox | Zoom-in on the newsroom | Media landscapes<br />
Authors<br />
Salvador Alsius, PhD,<br />
Head of Journalism Studies<br />
at Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br />
(UPF) and senior researcher<br />
of GRP (Journalism Research<br />
Group), Spain.<br />
Olivier Baisnée, PhD,<br />
works as an associate<br />
professor in political science<br />
at the Institut d’Etudes<br />
Politiques de Toulouse,<br />
France.<br />
Photgraph: Walter Henisch<br />
klaus Bichler, MMag.,<br />
researcher at Medienhaus<br />
Wien, lecturer at the<br />
University of Vienna and<br />
at the University of Krems,<br />
Austria.<br />
prof. dr. herta däublergmelin<br />
is a former German<br />
Minister of Justice and is<br />
member of the Consortium<br />
of the High-Level Group<br />
on Media Freedom and<br />
Pluralism (HLG).<br />
Bogusława dobek-<br />
Ostrowska, PhD, she is<br />
professor at the University<br />
of Wroclaw, Poland and the<br />
head of the Department of<br />
Journalism and Communication.<br />
Tobias eberwein, PhD,<br />
professor at the Institute<br />
of Journalism and acting<br />
academic director, Erich<br />
Brost Institute, TU Dortmund.<br />
Scientific coordinator<br />
of the <strong>MediaAcT</strong> project.<br />
huub evers, PhD, is a<br />
freelance media ethics<br />
expert. Till 2011, he was a<br />
professor of media, ethics<br />
and diversity at Fontys<br />
University of Applied<br />
Sciences, Tilburg, NL.<br />
Susanne Fengler, PhD,<br />
professor of international<br />
journalism, director of the<br />
Erich Brost Institute for int.<br />
Journalism, TU Dortmund<br />
University. Director of the<br />
<strong>MediaAcT</strong> project.<br />
drs. harmen p. groenhart<br />
is lecturer for Journalism<br />
Studies at the School<br />
of Journalism, Fontys<br />
University of Applied<br />
Sciences, Tilburg, NL.<br />
heikki heikkilä, PhD, is<br />
senior research fellow, University<br />
of Tampere, Finland.<br />
He is the <strong>MediaAcT</strong><br />
Work Package leader focusing<br />
on innovations in online<br />
media accountability.<br />
halliki harro-loit, PhD,<br />
professor of journalism,Institute<br />
of Journalism and Communication,<br />
University of<br />
Tartu, Estonia. Research<br />
group leader, Centre of Excellence<br />
in Cultural Theory.<br />
Mike Jempson, PhD, Senior<br />
Lecturer in Journalism at<br />
the University of the West<br />
of England. He has been<br />
Director of the journalism<br />
ethics charity The Media<br />
Wise Trust since 1996.<br />
Photgraph: Walter Henisch<br />
Andy kaltenbrunner, PhD,<br />
media consultant and<br />
lecturer (Austria, Spain,<br />
Germany), executive<br />
director of Medienhaus<br />
Wien, Austria.<br />
Photgraph: Walter Henisch<br />
Matthias karmasin, PhD,<br />
full professor at the Department<br />
of Media and Communication<br />
Sciences, University<br />
of Klagenfurt, ombudsman<br />
of the <strong>MediaAcT</strong><br />
project.<br />
Photgraph: Walter Henisch<br />
daniela kraus, PhD,<br />
executive director of<br />
fjum_forum for journalism<br />
and media Vienna, Austria.<br />
Her research interests are<br />
journalism research, journalism<br />
education, web 2.0.<br />
Julia lönnendonker, M.A.<br />
(USA), Dipl.-Geogr., is<br />
a senior researcher at the<br />
Erich Brost Institute for<br />
international journalism and<br />
coordination officer of<br />
the <strong>MediaAcT</strong> project.<br />
Marcel Mauri, PhD,<br />
Lecturer in Journalism<br />
History and Media Ethics<br />
at the Communication<br />
Department, Universitat<br />
Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain.<br />
prof. gianpietro Mazzoleni<br />
Professor of Sociology of<br />
Communication and Director<br />
of the Master‘s Program<br />
in Public & Corporate Communication<br />
at the Università<br />
degli Studi di Milano, Italy.<br />
Amirouche nedjaa, executive<br />
director of the “Arab<br />
Working Group for Media<br />
Monitoring”. He has specialised<br />
in monitoring the<br />
media coverage during<br />
electoral campaigns.<br />
Judith pies is a lecturer and<br />
research assistant at the<br />
Erich Brost Institute for<br />
International Journalism<br />
and the Institute for<br />
Journalism, TU Dortmund<br />
University, Germany.<br />
daniela popa, PhD student,<br />
teaching assistant at the<br />
Faculty of Communication<br />
and International Studies,<br />
Danubius University of<br />
Galati, Romania.<br />
raluca-nicoleta radu, PhD,<br />
is an associate professor at<br />
the Journalism Department,<br />
Faculty of Journalism and<br />
Communication Studies,<br />
University of Bucharest,<br />
Romania.<br />
ruth rodríguez-Martínez,<br />
has a PhD in Journalism<br />
from the Universidad<br />
Complutense in Madrid.<br />
Her main research interests<br />
are specialised journalism<br />
and cultural journalism.<br />
Stephan russ-Mohl, PhD,<br />
professor of journalism and<br />
media management, Università<br />
della Svizzera italiana,<br />
Lugano, Switzerland and<br />
director of EJO, European<br />
Journalism Observatory.<br />
laura Schneider-Mombaur,<br />
Dipl. Journ., is scientific<br />
assistant at the Erich Brost<br />
Institute for int. journalism<br />
and works as administrative<br />
officer at the <strong>MediaAcT</strong><br />
project. Freelance journalist.<br />
Sergio Splendore, PhD in<br />
sociology at the “Graduate<br />
School in Social, Economic<br />
and Political Sciences”,<br />
Department of Social and<br />
Political Science, University<br />
of Milan. Italy.<br />
Sandra Vera-Zambrano,<br />
PhD, currently works as<br />
research assistant for the<br />
Institut d‘Etudes Politiques<br />
in Toulouse, France.<br />
lEgAl nOTIcE<br />
<strong>MediaAcT</strong> - Final Report<br />
Publisher<br />
Erich Brost Institute for<br />
International Journalism<br />
Technische Universität dortmund<br />
germany<br />
prof. dr. susanne fengler<br />
dr. Tobias Eberwein<br />
Editors<br />
Tobias Eberwein, laura schneider-<br />
Mombaur<br />
Editorial assistance: Mariella Trilling &<br />
Johannes hoffmann<br />
Circulation<br />
10.000<br />
layout and Production<br />
susanne Janecke<br />
language Editing<br />
Marcus denton, Alison Ansell<br />
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d-59069 hamm<br />
germany<br />
Contact<br />
Erich Brost Institute<br />
Otto-hahn-straße 2<br />
d-44227 dortmund<br />
germany<br />
Tel. +49 (0)234-755-6976<br />
E-Mail: info@brost.org<br />
Title<br />
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The research leading to these<br />
results has received funding from<br />
the european union Seventh<br />
Framework programme (Fp7/2007-<br />
2013) under grant agreement n°<br />
244147. The information in this<br />
document is the outcome of the<br />
eu project “Media Accountability<br />
and Transparency in europe“<br />
(<strong>MediaAcT</strong>). The research reflects<br />
only the authors’ views and the<br />
european union is not liable for<br />
any use that may be made of the<br />
information contained therein. The<br />
user thereof uses the information at<br />
their sole risk and liability.