Prof. Dr. Susanne Fengler

Research and teaching interests 

• Comparative Journalism Research
• Media Accountability
• Media Development
• Media and Migration
• Economic Theory of Journalism

Curriculum Vitae 

• Born 1971 in Dortmund
• From 1991 studies in Communication Science, Freie Universität Berlin
• Working experience as newspaper and radio journalist
• 1995 Studies at Columbia University, New York City
• 1996 Degree in Communication Science (M.A.), Freie Universität Berlin
• 1996-2000 Research assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, chair for journalism and editorial management
• PhD scholarship granted by the FAZit foundation of “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”
• Collaboration at the conception and implementation of the European Journalism Fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin
• 2001 Dr. (PhD), summa cum laude, mentor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Ruß-Mohl
• 2001-2003 Occupation in political communication
• 2004-2006 Oberassistent (Assistant Professor), Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich
• 2007 Freelance researcher and visiting lecturer at the Universities of Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, the Swiss Journalism School (MAZ) and the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ); columns, articles and blogs for “Berliner Zeitung”, “Cicero”, “taz” and “Welt” etc.
• Since 2008 Professor for International Journalism at the Institute of Journalism at TU Dortmund University and Academic Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at Technische Universität Dortmund
• Since 2010 Managing Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism
• 2010-2013 Principal investigator and coordinator of the EU project ‘MediaAcT’ in FP7
• 2011 Host of the Annual Conference of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK)
• 2014-2016 Managing Director of the Institute of Journalism, TU Dortmund
•  2014-2018 Head of the MERCUR Graduate School of International and Intercultural Communication (SIIC) (together with Prof. Dr Barbara Thomaß and Prof. Dr Jens Loenhoff)
• 2018-2024 Head of the Volkswagen Foundation Graduate Program ‘MEDAS 21 - Media Development in the 21st Century’ (together with Prof. Dr Barbara Thomaß and Prof. Dr Jens Loenhoff)

Research projects 

Current projects:

• AMAZE! - Afrika & Migration: Analyse – Zukunft der Journalistenausbildung – E-Learning! Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. Duration: 2024.
• CoMMPASS - Communicating Migration and Mobility - E-Learning Programs and Newsroom Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa. Gefördert von der EU (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education). Funded by the EU (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education). Duration: 2023-2026.
• COPE - Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe - Training MOOC for European Journalism Students. Funded by the European Commission. Duration: 2023-2024.
• European Journalism Observatory (EJO). Supported by the Presse-Haus NRZ Foundation. Duration: Since 2010.
• MEDIADELCOM - Critical Exploration of Media Related Risks and Opportunities for Deliberative Communication: Development Scenarios of the European Media Landscape. Funded by the EU (Horizon 2020). Duration: 2021-2024.
• Graduate School MEDAS 21 - Media Assistance in the 21st Century: Applied Research, Improved Practice. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Duration: 2018-2024. 
• PROMPT  – Predictive Research On Misinformation and narratives Propagation Trajectories. Funded by the EU. Duration: 2024-2026.

Past projects (selection):

• Field trips with students to Myanmar (2016), Jordan (2017), Greece (2018), France (2019), Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (2022), Romania (2023) and Cyprus (2024), funded by the DAAD PROMOS programme.
• Media Accountability in the MENA Region. Funded by the Federal Foreign Office. Duration: 2020-2023.
• Newsreel - New Skills for the Next Generation of Journalists (2017-2020) und New Teaching Fields for the Next Generation of Journalists (2020-2023). Funded by the EU (Erasmus+/Tempus Foundation).
• E-Learning Platform Medien-Migration-Integration. Funded by The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Duration: 2021.
• UNESCO-Handbook for Journalism Educators: Reporting on Migrants and Refugees.Funded by UNESCO, Robert Bosch Foundation. Duration: 2019-2021.
• European Handbook of Media Accountability (published 2018) / Global Handbook of Media Accountability (published 2022).  Together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 
• Journalism in a global context. Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Duration: 2015-2019. 
• Graduate School School of International and Intercultural Communication (SIIC). Funded by MERCUR/Mercator Research Center Ruhr. Duration: 2014-2018.
• Ombudspersons in Tunisian Newsrooms. Gefördert vom Auswärtigen Amt. Laufzeit: 2014-2017. Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. Duration: 2014-2017. 
• Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe (MediaAcT) - Comparative study on media self-regulation in 13 European and Arab countries in the digital age. Funded by the EU in the 7th Research Framework Programme. Duration: 2010-2013.

Selected Conferences (since 2018) 

• Co-Organisation of the FOME Symposium Media Assistance: Mind the Gap! A critical review of common practices and strategies of the Forum Media and Development (FOME), 30 September-1 October 2024, Dortmund.
• Co-Organisation of the EJO Preconference "Building a future for journalism. When researchers, students, and practitioners pull together".  ECREA European Communication Conference, 23 September 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Co-Organisation of the E-Learning Summit at MUBAS Universtiy Blantyre,  12-15 August 2024, Blantyre, Malawi.
• 2024 Invited Co-Director, ECREA Graduate Spring School on Comparative Media Systems, 8-12 April 2024, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• Co-organisation of the panel ‘Media accountability in the Arab World’, Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE), Örebro, Sweden, 12-14 October 2022.
• Organisation of the panel ‘A Global View on Media Accountability: Results From a Comparative Study in 44 Countries’ at the ICA Annual Conference 2022, Paris, France, 27 May 2022.
• Organisation of workshops and conferences in Tunis, Amman and Beirut as part of the project ‘Media Accountability in the MENA Region’, 2021-2023.
• Organiser of the EJTA Teachers' Conference 2019 of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA), 17-18 October 2019, Dortmund.
• Co-organisation of the Herrenhäuser Conference ‘Transparency and Society - Between Promise and Peril’ (with Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger, Dr. Dimitrij Owetschkin and Prof. Dr. Ute Schneider) and the postconference ‘Media and Transparency - A Global Perspective’ (with Prof. Dr. Matthias Karmasin and Dr. Tobias Eberwein), 12-14 and 15 June 2018, Berlin.

In the media 

• Deutschlandfunk about the EJO/Otto-Brenner-Foundation study on migration coverage
• Washington Post about the EJO study on migration coverage 
• Guardian about the EJO study on migration coverage
• NZZ about the EJO study on migration coverage 

Editorships 

•  Co-Editor of Book Series “Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communication“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/Springer (together with Prof. Dr. Carola Richter, Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann, Dr. Sven Engesser)
•  Co-Editor of Book Series  „Kompaktwissen Journalismus“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/Springer (together with Prof. Dr. Sonja Kretzschmar)

Advisory board roles 

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne
• Mitglied im Kuratorium der Demokratie-Stiftung der Universität zu Köln
• Since 2023 Henriette Hertz Programme Scout of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Since 2019 Editorial Advisory Board, Global Media Journal
• Since 2017 Editorial Advisory Board, Central European Journal of Communication
• 2023 Juror, ‘Local Media for Democracy’, JournalismFund Europe
• 2015-2019 Scientific Advisory Board, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Comparative Media and Communication Studies 
• 2018-2019 Member of the ORF Foundation Board, Austrian public broadcaster ORF

Awards 

• 2019: MERCUR Science Award
• 2019: Günter Wallraff Prize for Journalism Criticism

Publications 

Books 

• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.) (2022): Global Handbook of Media Accountability. London/New York: Routledge.
• Fengler/Susanne, Lengauer, Monika/Zappe, Anna-Carina (Eds.) (2021): Reporting on Migrants and Refugees: Handbook for Journalism Educators. Paris: UNESCO. Available online.
• Berger, Stefan/Owetschkin, Dimitrij/Fengler, Susanne/Sittmann, Julia (Eds.) (2021): Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril. London/New York: Routledge.
• Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.) (2019). Media accountability in the era of post-truth politics: European challenges and perspectives. ECREA Series. London: Routledge.
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.) (2018): European Handbook of Media Accountability. London: Routledge.
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.) (2014): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. 
• Fengler, Susanne/ Eberwein, Tobias/ Jorch, Julia (Hrsg.) (2012): Theoretisch praktisch!? Anwendungsoptionen und gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung (unter Mitarbeit von Mariella Trilling). Konstanz: UVK. 
• Eberwein, Tobias / Fengler, Susanne / Lauk, Epp / Leppik-Bork, Tanja (Hrsg.) (2011): Mapping media accountability – in Europe and beyond. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Vestring, Bettina (2008): Politikjournalismus. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (2005): Der Journalist als „Homo oeconomicus“. Konstanz: UVK Medien. 
• Fengler, Susanne (2002): Medienjournalismus in den USA. Konstanz: UVK Medien. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.) (2002): Business Journalism, Corporate Communications, and Newsroom Management. Lugano: Università della Svizzera italiana. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.) (2000): Medien auf der Bühne der Medien – Zur Zukunft von Medienjournalismus und Medien-PR. Berlin: Dahlem University Press.

Research reports 

• Fengler, Susanne/Kurkowski, Isabella/Lengauer, Monika (2021): Media Accountability in the MENA Region. Pilot Study. TU Dortmund. Available online. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Kreutler, Marcus (2020): Migration coverage in Europe’s media A comparative analysis of coverage in 17 countries. Frankfurt/Main: OBS. Available online.
• Fengler, Susanne/Jorch, Julia/Götz, Ursula/ Philipp, Susan/Pies, Judith/Lottritz, Kerstin/Trilling, Mariella (2010): Final Evaluation Sector Programme "Promoting independent media 2008-2010". GIZ Berlin.
• Fengler, Susanne/Voglreiter, Sandra/Pies, Judith/Stube, Marlene (2008): Qualitätssicherung in der Weiterbildung internationaler Journalisten. Studie zum konzeptionellen und strategischen Vorgehen für PM+E-Maßnahmen des Internationalen Instituts für Journalismus (IIJ) bei InWEnt. InWEnt, Berlin.
• Fengler, Susanne (2007): Zwischen Gründerfieber, Islamismus und Geheimdienst. Der neue Journalismus in Syrien, Jordanien und Palästina.  InWEnt, Berlin.

Articles 

• Fengler, Susanne/Lengauer, Monika (2025, forthcoming): Migration and Forced Displacement: Transnational Phenomena Challenging Journalism Research and Education. In: Şahin, Sanem (Ed.): Insights on Journalism and Human Rights. London, New York. Routledge. 
• Mack, Johanna/Namusoga-Kale, Sara/van Berkum, Merle/Sithole, Enoch/Fengler, Susanne (2025): Climate change: Deserted land in journalism education. European Journalism Observatory. URL
• Fengler, Susanne (2024): Medienethische Debatten im internationalen Kontext: De-Westernizing Media Accountability Studies. In: Diehl, Sandra/Eberwein, Tobias/Krainer, Larissa/Weder, Franzisca (Eds.): Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Zukunft. Chancen, Potentiale, Herausforderungen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Pp. 233-252. 
• Eberwein, Tobias/ Kreutler, Marcus/Fengler, Susanne (2024): Research With(out) Values: Institutionalization and Impact of Media Accountability as an Academic Field. Central European Journal of Communication, 18(1(39). Available online
• Fengler, Susanne/Kreutler, Marcus (2024): Media Accountability: Global Trends and European Monitoring Capabilities. Media and Communication 12(7256). Available online.
•  Kreutler, Marcus/Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Głowacki, Michał/Mikucki, Jacek/ Rožukalne, Anda/Velinova, Neli (2024): Media accountability and its contribution to deliberative communication. Recent trends and current practices. In: Peruško, Zrinjka/Lauk, Epp/Harro-Loit, Halliki (Eds.): European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication. Risks and Opportunities. London, New York: Routledge. S. 45-63. Available online.
• Fengler, Susanne/Schützeneder, Jonas (2024): „Die afrikanische Kommunikationswissenschaft ist vielfältig.“ Susanne Fengler über Journalismus auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent, Initiativen und Perspektiven. In: Communicatio Socialis 57(1), S. 23-27.
• Richter, Carola et al. (2023): Die „tiefe Internationalisierung“ der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft? Eine Evaluation der Personal- und Forschungsstrukturen sowie der Lehrprogramme deutscher Hochschulen. In: Global Media Journal - German Edition 13. Avaliable online.
• Fengler, Susanne (2023): Journalism standards and media accountability: Research overview for the Balkan states. In: Dobek-Ostrowska, Bogusława/Kleut, Jelena (Eds.): Media Systems in Balkan Countries: Context and Dynamics of Change. New York: Peter Lang. 
• Fengler, Susanne (2023): Verantwortung und Selbstkontrolle im Journalismus. In: Meier, Klaus/Neuberger, Christoph (Eds.): Journalismusforschung. Stand und Perspektiven. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 135-154.
• Fengler, Susanne/Lengauer, Monika/Zappe, Anna-Carina (2023). Introducing the new UNESCO handbook, Reporting on migrants and refugees. In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics 20(1), S. 76-86 
• Fengler, Susanne/ Speck, Dominik/Kreutler, Marcus/Lengauer, Monika/Zappe, Anna-Carina (2022). Covering Migration. In Bettels-Schwabbauer, Tina/Leihs, Nadia/Maksa, Gyula/Speck, Dominik/Torbó, Annamaria (Eds.): New Skills for Journalists. Comparative Perspectives from Europe. Cluj-Napoca: Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület. S. 141-15. Available online.
• Fengler, Susanne/Lengauer, Monika/Zappe, Anna-Carina (2022): What is best practice in media reporting on migration? In: Ronan, Patricia/Ziegler, Evelyn (Eds.): Language and Identity in Migration Context. New York: Peter Lang. S. 233-254.
• Kreutler, Marcus/Fengler, Susanne et al. (2022): Migration Coverage in Europe, Russia and the United States. In: Central European Journal of Communication 15(2), S. 202-226.
• Fengler, Susanne et al. (2022): Covering Migration—in Africa and Europe: Results from a Comparative Analysis of 11 Countries. In: Journalism Practice 16(1), S. 140-160.
• Fengler, Susanne (2022): A comparative analysis of media accountability across the globe. Models, frameworks, perspectives. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 549-602.
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias/Barthel, Sandra/Speck, Dominik (2022): Summary of Country Chapters. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 525-548.
• Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (2022): Overview: Western Europe. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 109-110.
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias/Barthel, Sandra/Speck, Dominik (2022): Media Accountability. A Global Perspective. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 3-58.
• Fengler, Susanne (2021): A Conceptual Framework to Study Media Accountability in the MENA Region. In: Journal of Middle East Media (JMEM) 16, S. 5-38. 
• Fengler, Susanne (2021): Press Self-Regulation in an International Context. In: Trifanova-Price, Lada/Sanders, Karen/Wyatt, Wendy N. (Eds.): The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics. London/New York: Routledge. S. 419-426.
• Fengler, Susanne/Speck, Dominik/Bastian, Mariella/Pies, Judith (2021): Blind Spots. Shedding Light on Media Transparency Research Across World Regions. In: Berger, Stefan/Owetschkin, Dimitrij/Fengler, Susanne/Sittmann, Julia (Eds.): Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril. London/New York: Routledge. S. 93-108.
• Fengler, Susanne (2020): Media Accountability im internationalen Vergleich – Medienselbstkontrolle und Medienverantwortung aus interkultureller Perspektive. In: Kurilla, Robin/Kolb-Albers, Karin/Krämer, Hannes/Pitsch, Karola: Sine Ira et Studio. Disziplinenübergreifende Annäherungen an die zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 279-304.
• Zappe, Anna-Carina/Bastian, Mariella/Leißner, Laura/Henke, Jakob/Fengler, Susanne (2020): Perspektivwechsel: Migrationsberichterstattung in ausgewählten afrikanischen Ländern und Deutschland aus Migrant*innensicht. In: Gehrau, Volker/Waldherr, Annie/Scholl, Armin (Eds.): Integration durch Kommunikation (in einer digitalen Gesellschaft): Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 2019. Münster: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. S. 131-140.
• Badr, Hanan/Behmer, Markus/Fengler, Susanne et al. (2020): Kosmopolitische Kommunikationswissenschaft: Plädoyer für eine „tiefe Internationalisierung“ des Fachs in Deutschland. Ein wissenschaftspolitisches Positionspapier. In: Publizistik 65, S. 295-303.
• Fengler, Susanne/Kreutler, Marcus et al. (2020): The Ukraine Conflict and the European Media: A Comparative Study of Newspapers in 13 European Countries. In: Journalism 21(3), S. 399-422.
• Fengler, Susanne (2019): Media Accountability. In: Vos, Tim/Hanusch, Folker (Eds.): International Communication Association's International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. Wiley.
• Fengler, Susanne (2019): Accountability in Journalism. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. online verfügbar 
• Fengler, Susanne/Speck, Dominik (2019): Journalism and Transparency: A Mass Communications Perspective. In: Berger, Stefan/Owetschkin, Dimitrij (Eds.): Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. S. 119-149.
• Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (2019): Theory and practice of media accountability in Europe. An introductory overview. In: Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): Media accountability in the era of post-truth politics: European challenges and perspectives. ECREA Series. London, New York: Routledge. S. 3-17.
• Fengler, Susanne/ Bastian, Mariella/ Brinkmann, Jannis/Zappe, Anna Carina (2018): Die "Flüchtlingskrise": Ethische Herausforderungen für Medien in Europa und Afrika – Migrationsberichterstattung in 11 afrikanischen und europäischen Ländern. In Köberer, Nina/ Prinzing, Marlis/Schröder, Michael (Eds.): Integration durch Medien – Aufgabe oder Auslaufmodell? Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 39-52.
• Fengler, Susanne/Brinkmann, Janis/Eberwein, Tobias/Karmasin, Matthias/Kaufmann, Katja (2018): Summary: Measuring Media Accountability in Europe – and beyond. In: Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds..): The European Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 285-300.
• Fengler, Susanne/Bastian, Mariella/ Brinkmann, Janis/Eberwein, Tobias (2018): Germany: Disregarded Diversity. In: Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The European Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 90-98.
• Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (2018): Introduction: Putting media accountability on the map. In: Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Karmasin, Matthias (Eds.): The European Handbook of Media Accountability. London, New York: Routledge. S. 1-6.
• Bastian, Mariella/Fengler, Susanne (2016): Transparenz und Medien: Perspektiven der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Schnittstellen für die Politologie. In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 26(2), S. 211-220.
• Fengler, Susanne (2016): Twitter statt Presserat? Medienselbstkontrolle im europäischen Vergleich. In: APuZ 30-32, S. 34-40.
• Fengler, Susanne/Zappe, Anna Carina/Behmer, Markus/Tatah, Veye (2016): Journalism in a Global Context - Perspektiven für Afrika und Herausforderungen für Europa. In: Global Media Journal German Edition Vol. 6 (1). 
• Fengler, Susanne et al. (2015): How effective is media self-regulation? Results from a comparative survey of European journalists. In: European Journal of Communication, Vol. 30(3), S. 249-266. 
• Fengler, Susanne (2015). Journalismus als rationales Handeln. In Martin Löffelholz & Liane Rothenberger (Eds.), Handbuch Journalismustheorien. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 223- 234.
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (2015): Eine Frage des Gewissens? Zur Wirksamkeit journalistischer Selbstregulierung unter den Bedingungen des Medienwandels. In: Prinzing, Marlis/Rath, Matthias/Schicha, Christian/ Stapf, Ingrid (Eds.) (2015): Neuvermessung der Medienethik. Bilanz, Themen und Herausforderungen seit 2000. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Juventa, S. 223-242. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Leppik-Bork, Tanja/Lönnendonker, Julia/ Pies, Judith (2014): Introduction: Media Accountability—Basic Concepts and Theoretical Foundations. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. S. 7-30. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias (2014): Mapping Media Accountability—in Europe and Beyond. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. S. 31-50. 
• Eberwein, Tobias/Fengler, Susanne/Philipp, Susan/ Ille, Maryam (2014): Counting Media Accountability—the Concept and Methodology of the MediaAcT Survey. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. S. 65-82. 
• Fengler/ Susanne, Russ-Mohl/Stephan (2014): The (Behavioral) Economics of Media Accountability. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. S. 213-230. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/ Porlezza, Colin/ Russ-Mohl, Stephan (2014): Summary: Perspectives for Newsrooms, Policy-Makers and Journalism Educators. In: Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/Mazzoleni, Gianpietro/Porlezza, Colin/Ruß-Mohl, Stephan (Eds.): Journalists and media accountability. An international study of news people in the digital age. New York etc.: Peter Lang. S. 265-290. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/ Pies, Judith (2014): Journalists, Journalism Ethics and Media Accountability: A Comparative Survey in 14 European and Arabian Countries In: Journals of Shanxi University (Philosophy & Social Science), 37(4), S. 72-80. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias/ Lönnendonker, Julia/Schneider-Mombaur, Laura (2014): Journalists, Journalism Ethics, and Media Accountability: A Comparative Survey of 14 European and Arabic Countries. In: Wyatt, Wendy N. (Ed.): The Ethics of Journalism. Individual, Institutional and Cultural Influences. London, New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. 
• Fengler, Susanne (2012): From Media Self-Regulation to “Crowd-Criticism”: Media Accountability in the Digital Age. In: Central European Journal of Communication, 5(2), S. 175-189. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Jorch, Julia (2012): Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit – Stiefkind der Wissenschaft, Liebling der Praxis. Empirische Befunde und Lösungsvorschläge für Probleme der Praxis aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Sicht. In: Fengler, Susanne/ Eberwein, Tobias/ Jorch, Julia (Eds.) (2012): Theoretisch praktisch!? Anwendungsoptionen und gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung (unter Mitarbeit von Mariella Trilling). Constance: UVK. S. 219-234. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Eberwein, Tobias (2012): Theorie und Praxis in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Einführung und Überblick. In: Fengler, Susanne/ Eberwein, Tobias/ Jorch, Julia (Eds.): Theoretisch praktisch!? Anwendungsoptionen und gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung (unter Mitarbeit von Mariella Trilling). Constance: UVK. S. 11-25. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Bettels, Tina (2012): Der komparative Blick: Die Relevanz der Auslandsberichterstattung. In: Dernbach, Beatrice/Loosen, Wiebke (Eds.) (2012): Didaktik der Journalistik.Konzepte, Methoden und Beispiele aus der Journalistenausbildung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 365-376. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Bettels, Tina (2012): Die international vergleichende Perspektive in der Journalistik. In: Dernbach, Beatrice/ Loosen, Wiebke (Eds.): Didaktik der Journalistik. Best-Practice-Beispiele aus der Journalistenausbildung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. S. 365-391. 
• Bettels, Tina/Fengler, Susanne/Sträter, Andreas/Trilling, Mariella (2011): Kaum Transparenz im WWW. Wie europäische Medien ihr Publikum online an redaktionellen Prozessen teilhaben lassen – Ergebnisse einer international vergleichenden Studie. In: Journalistik Journal, 14(2), S. 34-36. 
• Fengler, Susanne/Bettels, Tina/Sträter, Andreas/Trilling, Mariella (2011): Die Illusion von Transparenz. In: message, (3), S. 82-85. 
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