Dominik Speck

Research interests

• Public Service Media
• Transparency and Journalism
• Media accountability in a global perspective
• Foreign reporting
• International reporting on flight and migration

Short biography 

• Since 3/2021 Research associate in the EU-funded project NEWSREEL 2- New Teaching Fields for the Next Generation of Journalists at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism
  Since 1/2018 Research Associate at the Institute of Journalism Studies (Chair of International Journalism) and Erasmus Coordinator
• Since 9/2014 Freelance journalist for the specialized service epd medien, among others
• Since 2021 Member of the pre-selection jury for radio/television programs of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize 
• 2/2020-1/2021 Visiting Researcher, Media Intelligence Service, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Geneva (on leave from TU Dortmund University)
• 12/2017 Master of Arts in Journalism Studies with the thesis “Between Professional Autonomy, Public Responsibility and State Interference. Media Accountability in Myanmar's Transitional Media System”
• 10/2016 Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with the thesis “The Rockstar Finance Minister. The coverage of the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis in German and French quality newspapers”
• 2/2015-11/2017 Student and research assistant at the Institute for Journalism Studies/Erich Brost Institute, focus of activity: Erasmus office
• 7/2015-10/2015 Substitute for an editor at the epd Medien department, Frankfurt/Main
• 9/2014-2/2015 Semester abroad at Bilgi University in Istanbul
• 9/2013-8/2014 Traineeship at Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd) and evangelisch.de, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin
• 2011-2016 Bachelor's degree in journalism/complementary subject politics at TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum
• 2010-2011 Diaconal year in Denmark in the care of addicts and homeless people

Publications 

• Speck, D. (2023): Enabling visibility: Online transparency practices of German public service media organisations. In Puppis, M., & Ali, C. (Eds.), Public service media’s contribution to society: RIPE@2021. Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. 
• Bettels-Schwabbauer, T., Leihs, N., Maksa, G., Speck, D., & Torbó, A. (Eds.) (2022): New Skills for Journalists. Comparative Perspectives from Europe. Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület.
• EBU (2022). Trust in Public Service Media. 
• EBU (2022). Trust in Media 2022. 
• Speck, D. (2022): Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk und Demokratie in Europa. Ergebnisse der EBU-Studie Public Service Media and Democracy. In: Media Perspektiven 5/2022, 265-276. 
• Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., Karmasin, M., Barthel, S., & Speck, D. (2022): Media accountability: A global perspective. In: Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., & Karmasin, M. (Eds): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, 3-58. Routledge.
• Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., Karmasin, M., Barthel, S., & Speck, D. (2022): Summary of Country Chapters. In: Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., & Karmasin, M. (Eds): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, 525-558. Routledge.
• Speck, D., Kurkowski, I., & Zayar Hlaing (2022): Myanmar: Potential diversity, unfulfilled hopes. In: Fengler, S., Eberwein, T., & Karmasin, M. (Eds): The Global Handbook of Media Accountability, 408-417. Routledge.
• EBU (2021). Democracy and Public Service Media. 
• EBU (2021). Trust in Media 2021. 
• Fengler, S., Speck, D., Kreutler, M., Lengauer, M., & Zappe, A.-C. (2021). Covering Migration. In: The Newsreel Project Consortium: Newsreel2. New Teaching Fields for the Next Generation of Journalists. Research report, 54-73. Dortmund: Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism.
• Speck, D. (2021). Foreign Coverage. In: The Newsreel Project Consortium: Newsreel2. New Teaching Fields for the Next Generation of Journalists. Research report, 74-92. Dortmund: Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism. 
• Fengler, S., Speck, D., Bastian, M. & Pies, J. (2021): Blind Spots. Shedding Light on Media Transparency Research Across World Regions. In: Berger, S., Fengler, S., Owetschkin, D. & Sittmann, J. (Eds): Transparency and Society – Between Promise and Peril, 93-108. Routledge.
• EBU (2020). Trust in Media 2020. 
• Speck, D. (2019): Öffentliche Anteilnahme ermöglichen. Transparenz, Aufsicht und öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk in Deutschland. Expertise im Auftrag des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (DGB). URL, auch erschienen als Dokumentation in epd medien 24/2020.
• Fengler, S. & Speck, D. (2019): Journalism and Transparency: A Mass Communications Perspective. In: Berger S., & Owetschkin, D. (Eds): Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, 119-149. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Speck, D. (2018): Die Gatekeeper sind weg - Eine Welt ohne Journalismus. In: Steinbrecher, M. & Rager, G. (Hrsg.): Wenn Maschinen Meinung Machen. Journalismuskrise, Social Bots und der Angriff auf die Demokratie. Westend, 220-231.
• Speck, D. (2017): Der Rockstar-Finanzminister. In: European Journalism Observatory. 

Presentations

Conference presentations (peer-reviewed)

• Coelho, J. F. G., & Speck, D. (2023): Regulated participatory mechanisms in Public Service Media: public complaints in different Media Accountability Instruments in Brazil and Germany. IAMCR 2023 Conference, Lyon, Frankreich, 9.-13. Juli 2023.
• Speck, D. (2022): Rethinking the impact of PSM transparency measures: From effects to politics of disclosure. ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus, Dänemark, 19.-22. Oktober 2022.
• Ferreira Seridório, D., Speck, D., Pereira da Silva, S., & Rothberg, D. (2022): Between Conservation and Innovation: A comparative study on guidelines for PSM multiplatform journalism. RIPE@2022, Wien, 18.-21. September 2022.
• Ferreira Seridório, D., & Speck, D. (2022): Self-regulation and independence in state-level public broadcasters in Brazil and in Germany. IAMHIST 2022 conference, Kiel, 12.-14. Juli 2022. 
• Fengler, S., & Speck, D. (2022): Media Accountability: From Western Concept to Global Models. ICA 2022 Conference, Paris, Frankreich, 28.-31. Mai 2022.
• Speck, D. (2021): Enabling visibility: Online transparency practices of German PSM organizations. RIPE@2021, 27.-28. September 2021 (ausgezeichnet mit dem Best Paper Award for Emerging Scholars).
• Speck, D., & Fernandez Quijada, D. (2021): Trust – it’s complicated. The EBU Net Trust Index: an indicator to contextualize trust in media across Europe. IAMCR Annual Conference, 11-15 Juli 2021.
• Fengler, S., Speck, D. & Eberwein, T. (2019): De-Westernizing Media Accountability Research. Annual Conference 2019 of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), 7-11. Juli 2019, Madrid, Spanien.
• Speck, D. (2018): Media Accountability in Transition: The Myanmar Press Council - A Challenged Media Accountability Instrument. IAMCR Annual Conference, June 20-24, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Other presentations 

• Trust in Public Service Media. Video Talk des EBU Media Intelligence Service, 21. Oktober 2022.
• Transparenzvorgaben für die Aufsichtsgremien des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland. Impulsvortrag im Rahmen des AG DOK Panels "Die ARD nach der sogenannten Krise im RBB". DOK.Leipzig Festival, 18. Oktober 2022.
• The Schlesinger case - A spotlight on (a lack of) PSM accountability in Germany. Vortrag im Panel "International panoramas on PSM" der Pre-Conference "Defensorías/ouvidorias en un contexto comunicacional en transformación" der Jahreskonferenz der Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC), online/Buenos Aires, 22. September 2022
• No democracy without media: A research perspective. Webinar des EBU Media Intelligence Service, 16. September 2021. 
• Trust in Media 2020. Webinar des EBU Media Intelligence Service, 14. Mai 2020.
• Vorstellung der Studie "Wie transparent sind die öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien?" Medienpolitische Tagung von ver.di und DGB, Berlin, 7. Februar 2020