Get to know the lecturers of our Master's programme
The team consists of a mixture of experienced scientists and well-connected practitioners from the fields of online communication and journalism.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pranz
Head of Study Programme
Topics: Digital Storytelling, Entrepreneurial Journalism & Start-up Culture, Science and Technology Studies
Lecture ‚Technology‘
Laboratory module

Prof. Dr. Henriette Heidbrink
Head of Study Programme
Topics: Journalism & digital Transformation, Innovations & Entrepreneurship, Applied Media Science
Laboratory module

Prof. Dr. Torsten Schäfer
Society module
Topics: Journalism with focus on text production, environment and travel

Prof. Dr. Pia Sue Helferich
Topics: Organizational Communication, Public Relations, Corporate Learning, Lifelong Learning

Prof. Dr. Lars Rademacher
Topics: Public Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility

Prof. Dr. Melina Alexa
Topics: Online Marketing, Opinion Mining and Online Monitoring, Social Listening, Text-/Web-Mining

Prof. Dr. med. Silke Heimes
Topics: Factual and fictional storytelling and writing, creative and scientific writing, Health Journalism

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pleil
Topics: Online communication, online PR and social web, digitalization of marketing, communication and innovation processes, lifelong learning, web literacy

Prof. Dr. Martin Wessner
Technology module
Topics: Media Competence, Media Didactics, Multimedia Technology, Visual Communication, photography
Contact Student Service Center
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