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Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer is an academic at TU Dortmund University and the former editor of the German EJO website. She studied online journalism at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany. After her studies she worked as an online editor for a retail industry newspaper in Germany, then moved to Australia for three years where she lectured in Media Studies at the University of Adelaide.
From 2010 to 2014 she researched and lectured at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism and the Institute for Journalism at TU Dortmund University. During this time she was also editing the German portal of the EJO website. During 2014 and 2015 Tina managed a journalism education programme for High School students at a German political foundation. In September 2015 she returned to EJO. Since September 2017 she has also been working in the project “New skills for the next generation of journalists” (NEWSREEL) funded by the European Union. Her research interests include international media systems, journalism cultures and journalism education, the latter with a focus on CEE countries which is also the topic of her PhD project.
June 23, 2023 •
Censorship, Comment, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Tina Bettels
Tu Dortmund University academic Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer speaks with Prof. Dr William Tayeebwa from Makerere University in Kampala about press freedom in Uganda....
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September 4, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
One of the main aims of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is to promote dialogue between media researchers and practitioners. On the occasion of the EJO’s 10th anniversary we will be presenting and discussing best practice...
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August 5, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels
”What we do is not actually journalism” is the catchy title of a study into how online journalists in Slovenia and Serbia perceive their work and their professional role within the newsroom. The study’s title – a quote by...
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January 21, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Tina Bettels
A comparative study into the professional views of journalism students show that most of them are influenced by their country’s political history and by the views of their predecessors. Researchers working with Claudia Mellado...
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November 28, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Tina Bettels
In the U.S., many newspaper companies have sold their headquarters in the city centers and moved to smaller buildings in the suburbs. Those that haven’t are sharing their buildings with others firms. For example, San Francisco Chronicle...
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November 14, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
The connections between media and politics are deeply rooted in the Italian society and it seems very difficult to separate them, even without the media baron Silvio Berlusconi as the head of the Italian government. This is one of the...
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August 21, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Tina Bettels
As soon as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos announced his acquisition of the Washington Post, people began asking why he had done it. What will the man who said there would be no printed newspapers in 20 years do with one of the most respected...
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August 16, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Tina Bettels
It was a simple question: “Who are the Taliban?” An international research team posed this and other questions to 1000 adult TV viewers in 11 countries worldwide . In Europe, the majority of respondents knew that the Taliban were an...
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May 3, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by Tina Bettels
Media regulators in Germany, Austria and Switzerland believe that they should be independent from the government, but do not necessarily want more interaction with the public, according to a wide ranging study into the attitudes of media...
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