Dr. Tamara Witschge

Dr Tamara Witschge, guest researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute, is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts since February 2012. From 2009-2012 she was a lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Before that (2007-2009) she was a research associate at Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and worked on project 'Spaces of News'. This project explored the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism. She has published widely on this topic, and is co-author of the recently published book ‘Changing Journalism’ (2011, Routledge). Her PhD thesis '(In)difference Online' (2007) examined the openness of public debate on contested issues.

Tamara is the General Secretary of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA and a member of the editorial board of the international journals ‘New Media and Society’, ‘Platform: the Journal of Media and Communication,’ and the German edition of the ‘Global Media Journal.