Marcel Machill

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Marcel Machill (born July 22, 1968 in Dortmund ) is a German media scientist , journalist and university professor .

life and career

Machill is Professor of Journalism with a focus on International Media Systems at the University of Leipzig and holds the Chair of Journalism II. When he was appointed professor in 2002, he was the youngest professor of journalism in Germany.

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , Machill studied journalism and psychology in Paris and Dortmund and from 1997 to 1999 at Harvard University in Cambridge. In 1993 he received the diploma from the French journalism school Center de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) and in 1994 the diploma from the University of Dortmund. Machill his PhD in 1997 for Dr. phil. at the Chair for Media Policy and Media Economics.

As a journalist he worked for numerous newspapers and television stations, including as a reporter and anchorman . In 1991 and 1992 Machill completed a traineeship and training as a radio editor at Deutsche Welle in Cologne and Berlin and worked for Radio France Internationale in Paris, where he hosted a European journal in 1993. He then worked as a freelance editor at Euronews-TV in Lyon and moderated news and magazine programs as well as political reports. Other stations were WDR, ORB, Radio France and the ARD studio in Washington as a freelancer. He wrote a total of six articles for Die Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau and taz .

Before being appointed professor in 2002, Machill headed the Bertelsmann Foundation's media policy department . From 2004 to 2006 he was in the chair for "International Journalism" at the University of Dortmund. His research and teaching focus is in the cross-media area in the area of ​​electronic media, he also worked internationally as an expert and appraiser, for example for the European Commission. Machill is a member of the selection jury for the McCloy Scholarship at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, USA. He is also a member of the Fulbright Commission's National Selection Committee.

Machill caused a stir in November 2010 when he had one of his students warned by a publisher. The student had scanned an exam-relevant but no longer obtainable work by Machill and made it available to his fellow students.

Others

Machill works on a voluntary basis as district chairman and district referee instructor in the handball district of Gütersloh. As a handball referee, he whistles men's games up to and including the association league, women and youth up to and including the upper league. Until 2019, he was Vice President Law on the Presidium of the Westphalian Handball Association.

Fonts

  • 1997: France quota rich. National media policy and European communication policy in the context of national identity
  • 1997: Journalistic Culture. Framework conditions in international comparison
  • 1999: Transatlantic. Transfer of politics, economy and culture. With contributions by Helmut Schmidt u. a.
  • 2001: Internet responsibility in schools
  • 2001: Internet hotlines
  • 2002: Transparency on the Net
  • 2003: Guide to the Internet
  • 2005: Search Engines: New Challenges for Media Policy
  • 2005: 12 golden search engine rules
  • 2006: Daily newspapers online
  • 2006: Advertising papers and free newspapers
  • 2007: The Power of Search Engines
  • 2007: Media Industry, Journalism Culture and Communication Policies in Europe
  • with Martin Zenker: Youtube, Clipfish and the end of television? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89892-809-0 .
  • with Markus Beiler: Who influences the selection of TV programs? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89892-859-5 .
  • Journalistic research on the internet . Vistas, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89158-480-4 .
  • Freedom of the media after the fall of the Wall . UVK, Konstanz 2010, ISBN 978-3-86764-267-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://kress.de/kresskoepfe/kopf/profil/8925-marcel-machill.html
  2. ↑ Own list of publications, checked in online archives of ZEIT, FR and taz (PDF; 67 kB)
  3. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de, December 2, 2010: One man, one book
  4. ↑ Marcel Machill as a district arbitrator trainee
  5. ^ Handball Association Westphalia eV - News. In: www.handballwestfalen.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Machill, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund