Stephan Russ-Mohl

Ruß-Mohl at the presentation of The Informed Society and Its Enemies at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Stephan Ruß-Mohl (born May 23, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German media scientist .

Life

From 1985 to 2001 Stephan Ruß-Mohl was a journalism professor at the Free University of Berlin , where he was responsible for the further training course for journalists and the journalists' college.

Since 2002 he has been Professor of Communication Science at the University of Lugano . He is also head of the European Journalism Observatory , which monitors trends in the media industry and conducts cross-country journalism research. Among other things, he works as a journalist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Ruß-Mohl completed research stays at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1989), the European University Institute in Florence (1992) and at Stanford University in California (1995, 1999 and 2008).

His research fields are quality assurance and quality management in journalism, editorial management, comparative journalism research (in particular: Germany , USA , Switzerland , Italy ), media journalism and public relations for media companies as well as business reporting.

He wrote books on science journalism and an introduction to journalism. He also designed an economic approach to illuminate the interests of journalists.

In the rankings of Transparency International and Reporters sans frontières , Ruß-Mohl recognizes a connection between freedom of the press and corruption.

“According to the two rankings, a high degree of freedom of the press correlates impressively with a low susceptibility to corruption. This suggests that freedom of the press helps curb corruption in the long term. "

Fonts (selection)

• Journalism - the manual and textbook . Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-934191-62-2
• together with Susanne Fengler : The journalist as "Homo oeconomicus" . Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-89669-466-9
• Creative destruction. The decline and reinvention of newspaper journalism in the USA , Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-86764-077-0
• as ed. together with Heinz-Werner Nienstedt , Bartosz Wilczek : Journalism and Media Convergence . Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030288-2
• The informed society and its enemies. Why digitization is endangering our democracy. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-86962-274-3

Web links

Commons : Stephan Ruß-Mohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Stephan Ruß-Mohl in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications by Stephan Ruß-Mohl
• Culture of fairness: Journalism is not a beer, but an indispensable social value. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 26, 2010, p. 23 , accessed November 29, 2010 (longer article - contains six suggestions for the future of quality journalism). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Russ-Mohl. In: Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Powerful control. In: Tagesspiegel. June 26, 2010. Retrieved November 29, 2010 . 
3. ^ Media in transition - "In the past, the journalists were the lock keepers" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed October 15, 2017]).