Curriculum Vitae | Tobias Eberwein

Personal data:

Date of birth: 19.11.1978
Citizenship: German
Family status: married, two sons
Languages: German (mother tongue), English (business fluent), French (good)

Research fields:

Media ethics and media accountability
Media structures and media governance
Journalism
Media innovations
Methods of empirical social science
Comparative communication and media research

Academic education:

2007 – 2013: Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund
Thesis: “Literary journalism. Theory – traditions – status quo”
Simultaneously: Certified program of further education “Professional teaching skills for the university” at the Center for Higher Education at TU Dortmund
1999 – 2006: Studies of Journalism, Political Sciences, American and English Culture and Literature at University of Dortmund

Professional career:

Since 2023: Deputy Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt
Since 2014: Senior Scientist (Tenure) and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt
Since 2014: Visiting lecturer at Hamburg Media School
Summer semester 2014: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for communication with a focus on structures of public communication at Dresden University of Technology
Winter semester 2013/2014: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for online/print journalism at Dortmund University of Technology
Summer semester 2013: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for international journalism at Dortmund University of Technology
2012 – 2017: Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
2011 – 2013: Acting academic director of the Erich Brost Institute for international journalism, Dortmund
2009 – 2013: Researcher (50%) at the Erich Brost Institute for international journalism, Dortmund
2006 – 2013: Scientific associate (50%) at the Institute of Journalism at University of Dortmund
2004 – 2006: Student assistant (SHK) at the Institute of Journalism at University of Dortmund University (Project “Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung“)
2002 – 2003: Trainee (Volontär) at the “Westfalenpost“ in Hagen (Westfalen)
1998 – 2002: Journalistic occupations for various daily media – among others the “Deutsche Presse-Agentur“ (dpa), “die tageszeitung“ (taz), “Weser-Kurier“, “Oberhessische Presse“, “Hit Radio FFH“ and many more

Memberships in professional organizations etc.:

International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS)
International Communication Association (ICA)
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kommunikationswissenschaft (ÖGK)
Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center (IMEC)
Verein zur Förderung der publizistischen Selbstkontrolle (FPS)
Verein zur Förderung der Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund
Ex e.V. – Förderverein der Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Instituts für Journalistik der Universität Dortmund

Other activities (selection):

Since 2024: Member of the Journalism Subsidy Advisory Board (Publizistikförderungsbeirat) of KommAustria
Since 2023: President of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Since 2023: Member of the Advisory Board of the “Global Media Journal — German Edition”
Since 2022: Specialty Chief Editor of “Frontiers in Media Governance and the Public Sphere”
2020 – 2022: Associate Editor of the “Central European Journal of Communication” (CEJC)
Since 2020: Member of the selection committee of Österreichische Studienstiftung
Since 2019: Treasurer of the Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center
2018 – 2023: Vice President of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
2017 – 2019: Research Chair of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
2016 – 2021: Treasurer of the Verein zur Förderung der publizistischen Selbstkontrolle
2015 – 2019: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center
Since 2014: Member of the advisory board of the journal “Literary Journalism Studies”
2013 – 2021: Vice-chairman of the Verein zur Förderung der Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund
2013 – 2015: Editor of “aviso – Informationsdienst der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft”
2013 – 2014: Director of “Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung” (INA)
2011 – 2021: Secretary of the Verein zur Förderung der publizistischen Selbstkontrolle
2011 – 2015: Chair of the Graduate Student Committee of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
2009 – 2010: Founding editor of the online review journal “r:k:m – Rezensionen:Kommunikation:Medien”
2006 – 2013: Editor-in-chief of the online journal “Medien Monitor” and „Journalistik Journal“
2005 – 2008: Review editor of “Publizistik. Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung“
Reviewer for the journals “Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft” (M&K), “Publizistik”, “Studies in Communication | Media” (SCM), “Medien und Zeit”, “Medien Journal”, “International Journal of Communication ” (IJoC), “International Journal of Press/Politics” (IJPP), “Javnost – The Public”, “Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research”, “Media and Communication”, “Journalism”, “Journalism Studies”, “Digital Journalism”, “Journalism Practice”, “Literary Journalism Studies” (LJS), “Journalism and Media”, “Studies in Communication Sciences” (SComS), “Recherches en Communication”, “Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society” (JICES), “International Review of Information Ethics” (IRIE), “Corporate Communications: an International Journal” (CCIJ), “Politics and Governance”, “European Politics and Society”, the “Polish Political Science Yearbook”, “Reinvention: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research”, the annual conferences of the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS), the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC), the German Communication Association/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) and the DGPuK sections “Journalism research”, “Communication and media ethics” and “Communication history”, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the publisher Wiley-Blackwell, etc.

Fellowships and awards:

2010: META – Medienethik-Award, Stuttgart Media University
2002 – 2006: e-fellows.net online scholarship programme

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