Stephan Russ-Mohl, Ivo Indzov

Stephan Russ-Mohl is full Professor of Journalism and Media Management at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano and Director of the European Journalism Observatory (www.ejo.ch).

Born in 1950, in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, he studied Public Administration/Public Policy at the University of Konstanz and at Princeton University and completed his professional training in Journalism at the Deutsche Journalistenschule (German School of Journalism), Munich.

He was Professor of Journalism and Media Management at the Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin from 1985 to 2001. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1989, at the European University Institute (Florence) in 1992 and at the Department of Communication, Stanford University in 1995, 1999 and 2008. He was Gutenberg Fellow at the Research Focus Media Convergence of the University of Mainz 2011/2012.

Ivo Indzov is Associate Professor of Journalism at the St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo. Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Author of the monographs "Die Fernsehtransformation: Die Rolle des Fernsehens im Prozess der Europäischen Integration" (2008), "Media between freedom, politics and business" (2011), compiler and co-author of "Taboo themes in the media" (2013) and co-author of Stephan Russ-Mohl's Journalism - a Textbook and Handbook (2017, 2012). He has over 10 years of experience as a reporter, editor and editor-in-chief in national and regional print media.