Susanne Fengler#
© R. Baege, TU Dortmund
| Membership Number: | 7162 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.brost.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8562-8881 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/susanne.fengler.5/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- FAZit PhD fellowship (granted by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Foundation)
- 1996 - 2000 Research assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, chair for journalism and editorial management (Prof. Dr. Stephan Ruß-Mohl)
- Co-conception and implementation of the European Journalism Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin with Prof. Dr. Ruß-Mohl
- 2001 Dr. (PhD), summa cum laude, mentor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Ruß-Mohl
- 2001 - 2003 Political communication advisor, party headquarter
- 2004 - 2006 Oberassistent (Assistant Professor), Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich
- 2007 Free-lance researcher and visiting lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, Basel, Lu-cerne, the Swiss Journalism School (MAZ) and the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ); columns, articles and blogs for “Berliner Zeitung”, “Cicero”, “taz” and “Welt” etc.
- Since 2008 Professor for International Journalism at the Institute for Journalism at TU Dortmund University and Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at Technische Universität Dortmund (www.brost.org)
- 2011 Host of the Annual Conference of the German Society for Journalism and Com-munication Studies (DGPuK)
- 2013 - 2017 Speaker of the MERCUR Graduate School of International and Intercultural Communication (co-speakers Prof. Dr. Jens Loenhoff and Prof. Dr. Barbara Thomaß)
- 2018 - 2022 Speaker of the MEDAS 21 Graduate School funded by VolkswagenStiftung (co-speakers Prof. Dr. Jens Loenhoff and Prof. Dr. Barbara Thomaß
Fields of Scholarship
- Political journalism
- International journalism
- Media assistance
- Economic theory of journalism
- Media accountability
- Comparative studies
- Media and migration
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Invited Co-Director Graduate Spring School on Comparative Media Systems
- Since 2020 Kuratorium Demokratie-Stiftung der Universität zu Köln
- 2019 MERCUR Science Award
- 2019 Günther Wallraff Award for Media Criticism
