Malte Hinrichsen
Malte Hinrichsen (M.A., M.Sc. Comm Science with Honors) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. He is writing his PhD within a larger project named “Religion, Euroscepticism, and the Media”. The project analyzes the relationship between Euroskepticism and religious attitudes and behavior in a time in which all established democracies are characterized by the media playing a central role in the relationship between politics and citizens. The project is cooperation between researches from the universities of Amsterdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Oxford, London, and Lisbon, financed by NORFACE, and supervised by Claes de Vreese (http://www.rem-norface.org/). Malte is Student Member elect of the Board of the International Communication Association (ICA).
Before coming to ASCoR Malte was a scientific fellow at the Department of Journalism and Communication Research at the University of Music and Drama Hanover (http://www.ijk.hmt-hannover.de/). There he taught in the field of political communication, European media policy, and methodology. During his studies Malte spent semesters at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and at the Institut de la Communication et des Médias, Universite Stendhal de Grenoble, and worked for the Public Affairs Offices of Bertelsmann in Brussels and Berlin and for the German federal secretary of education as a campaign organizer).
In his master thesis he investigated the development of foreign news coverage between 1985 and 2005 in The New York Times, The Times, and El País (nominated for the best thesis prize 2006 of the Hamburg Media School). Recently, Malte conducted together with Prof. Dr. Beate Schneider and Prof. Dr. Helmut Scherer a world wide study on the perception of the EU by journalists living and working outside of Europe. In another research project he investigates the image of Poland in the German and British press between 2000 and 2006. Also, Malte is currently investigating the development of foreign news coverage in DER SPIEGEL between 1985 and 2005.
