Dr. Stephan Russ-Mohl

Born May 23, 1950, in Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Director of the European Journalism Observarory since October of 2003; Professor of Journalism and Media Management at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano since 2002.

Currently (2011/2012) a Gutenberg Fellow at the Research Unit Media Convergence of the University of Mainz. From 1985 – 2001 held a full professorship at the Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin. Director of the Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, from 1985 to 2001; Director of the Continuing Education Program for Journalists at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1986 – 2001; Director of the Journalisten-Kolleg from 1999 – 2001; Visiting Fellow 1995, 1999 and 2008 at the Department of Communication, Stanford University; Visiting Fellow 1992, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, 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; Professionally trained in journalism at the Deutsche Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism), Munich.

Frequent contributor to Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), columnist for Die Furche (Vienna),Schweizer Journalist (Zurich) and Werbewoche (Zurich).

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