Thomas Hanitzsch
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http://www.thomas-hanitzsch.de/Index.htm
Germany

I am currently Chair and Professor of Communication at the LMU Munich, Germany; my teaching and research focus on journalism research and comparative media studies. My home base is the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, which I am chairing since 2012.
A former journalist in the early 1990s, I have studied Journalism, Arabic Studies/Oriental Philology and Indonesian Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany and Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. I have earned my Ph.D. in 2004 from the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany where I held various positions between 2002 and 2006. Prior to my move to Munich I have worked at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2006-2009).
Since 2012, I am the Editor-in-Chief of Communication Theory, one of the field's most renowned journals published by the the International Communication Association (ICA) in association with Wiley.