Christoph Moss

Christoph Moss (born May 17, 1967 in Dortmund , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German journalist and university professor . He holds a professorship for communication and marketing at the International School of Management in Dortmund.

After graduating from high school in 1986, Christoph Moss first did his military service before starting an apprenticeship as a banker in Dortmund . He then studied business administration at the University of Passau . While still a student, he began his traineeship at the Passauer Neue Presse in 1990 with the support of the Institute for Journalist Training at the University of Passau , for which he then worked as a business editor for two years.

In 1996 Christoph Moss returned to his hometown to do his doctorate at the Technical University of Dortmund . He submitted his doctoral thesis entitled “The Organization of the Newspaper Editing” the following year before he took over as head of the business editorship at Ruhr Nachrichten in 1997 . In 2000 the journalist moved to the Handelsblatt editorial team in Düsseldorf. In 2006 he also took over the management of the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists .

In 2007 Christoph Moss left the journalistic practice to devote himself to teaching. He received a professorship for corporate communications and media management at the International School of Management , where he also led the “Communications & Marketing” course. He had previously accepted teaching positions at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management , TU Dortmund, FH Gelsenkirchen , FH Hannover and at the Haus Busch journalism center in Hagen. In 2009 he also received a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

From 2011 to 2016 Christoph Moss held a professorship for journalism and media management at the BiTS in Iserlohn. As dean, he headed the “Media and Communication” department and was vice dean of the “Journalism and Business Communication” bachelor's program. In addition to his teaching activities, he has been the owner of "mediamoss", a communication agency, since it was founded in 2008. He also gives lectures at media and communication conferences.

Publications

• The newsroom in corporate communication: How topics can be managed efficiently, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016. ISBN 978-3-658-10854-0
• Instagram as a marketing channel: the positioning of selected social media platforms (with Manuel Faßmann), Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016. ISBN 978-3-658-14349-7
• Science Award 2016: BiTS Research, Volume 9, Projektverlag, Bochum 2016. ISBN 978-3-89733-393-2
• Weblogs and language: investigation of linguistic characteristics in blog texts (with Jill Heurich), Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015. ISBN 978-3-658-08914-6
• Science Award 2015: BiTS Research, Volume 8, Projektverlag, Bochum 2015. ISBN 978-3-89733-359-8
• ISM Yearbook Corporate Communication 2011: ISM Volume 18,  Verlag Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2011. ISBN 978-3-86991-358-2
• Thank you for your e-mail: Curiosities, interesting facts and helpful information about communication medium number 1 , Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2010. ISBN 978-3-89981-231-2
• The importance of intercultural corporate communication in the context of the financial and economic crisis: Discussion Paper No. 16 (with Katharina Balkmann), Verlag Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2010. ISBN 978-3-86991-182-3
• The Role of E-Mail Communication in University Marketing - An International Study on Dealing with Interested Inquiries: Discussion Paper No. 13 (with Stephanie Weiser), Verlag Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2010. ISBN 978-3-86991-080-2
• The language of the economy (ed.), VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009. ISBN 978-3-531-16004-7
• Business on the move - an analysis of sports reporting in Handelsblatt: Discussion Paper No. 10 (with Andrea Wandrey), Monsenstein and Vannerdat Verlag, Münster 2009. ISBN 978-3-86582-981-8
• German for Managers - Focused Style Flowers from the Globalized World of Speech Performance , Verlag Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2008. ISBN 978-3-89981-173-5
• Linguistic characteristics of weblogs: Discussion-Paper No. 5 , Verlag Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2008. ISBN 978-3-86582-744-9
• Business journalism - basics and practice (with Jürgen Heinrich ), VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 978-3-531-14209-8
• The organization of the newspaper editorial office: How to efficiently coordinate journalistic work , Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 1998. ISBN 978-3-531-13127-6

Web links

• Private web presence of Christoph Moss
• Web presence of the communication consultancy mediamoss
• Literature by and about Christoph Moss in the catalog of the German National Library