Andy Kaltenbrunner Editor

Klaus Meier, Prof. Dr., holds the Chair for Journalism Studies with a focus on Innovation and Transformation at the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (Germany). His research explores ethics and quality of journalism, transfer between science and practice, convergence, digital journalism and journalism education.

José A. García-Avilés, PhD, is Full Professor of Journalism at Miguel Hernández University (Spain), where he lectures at the Master Program in Journalism Innovation. He was a visiting scholar at the Media Studies Center based in Columbia University (New York). His main research interests are digital journalism, news quality and media innovation.

Andy Kaltenbrunner, Dr., is managing partner of Medienhaus Wien and honorary professor at the Miguel Hernández University, Elche. He led the development of several academic and executive programs on journalism, media management and production. His main research areas are media policy, innovation and transformation in journalism. He leads programmes on these topics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Colin Porlezza, PhD, is Senior Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism with the Institute of Media and Journalism at the Università della Svizzera italiana. He studied communication science and holds a PhD in journalism studies. His research focuses on automated journalism and AI, the innovation and datafication of digital journalism, as well as on journalism ethics and accountability.

Vinzenz Wyss, PhD, Professor for Journalism at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. His main focus is on quality and quality assurance in journalism, media ethics and media criticism. With his company “Media Quality Assessment”, he evaluates the quality assurance systems of media organizations.

Renée Lugschitz, PhD, is a researcher at Medienhaus Wien and the Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Klagenfurt. She studied history and holds a PhD in journalism studies. Her main focuses are practice-oriented research on transition in journalism, on changes in the journalistic profession and on journalism quality from a historical and gender perspective.

Korbinian Klinghardt, MA, PhD candidate, is a research associate at the Chair for Journalism Studies with a focus on Innovation and Transformation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He studied media studies at the University of Regensburg and at the Università degli studi Roma Tre. His research focuses on innovations and quality in journalism as well as journalism on social media.