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Birte Leonhardt

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Predoctoral Researcher & PhD candidate at University of Vienna Office Manager @yecrea Interventionist Journalism | Journalistic Practice

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✨New YECREA Representatives✨

🌿Organisational & Strategic Communication
→Tünde Taxner

🔬Science & Environment Communication
→Sylvia Hayes & Alejandro Carbonell-Alcocer

🌍CEE
→Igor Išpanović
→Karolína Bieliková

📺Children, Youth & Media
→Silvia Rusiñol-Romero

Welcome aboard 💫

28.01.2026 16:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🚀 New call for participants!
We’re organising a free workshop series on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in Academic Careers, funded by the ECREA EDI Grant. #ECRs are expected to articulate their positionality, and navigate a job market. This series offers a space to develop these skills (1/3)

01.12.2025 12:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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We’re hosting a panel at ECREA and are opening up our space for ECRs:
👉 Young scholars face shifting grounds, from political turns to technological transformations
💭 We invite proposals that explore how these forces are reshaping what it means to build a career in communication and media research

12.11.2025 12:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Read my new paper in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social 🙌 it’s #openaccess

02.10.2025 13:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3

A must-read by @jscvienna.bsky.social’s @birteleonhardt.bsky.social!

02.10.2025 13:34 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How willing are scientists to act as experts in the news media? In the context of the #COVID-19pandemic, @birteleonhardt.bsky.social, Daniel Nölleke & Folker Hanusch interviewed 24 Austrian #ScientificExperts about their perception of news media logics. www.doi.org/10.5771/2192...

01.07.2025 12:06 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🧾 New Publication on Scientists and News Media Logic during COVID-19

Why do some scientists actively engage with the media, while others remain reluctant?
In this study, we examine this question through the lens of mediatization theory.

📄 Read the paper here: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/2...

30.06.2025 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies Abstract. Digitalization and declines in news use underscore the tension between journalistic ideals of detachment and audience communities’ demands for jo

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

While many colleagues are still deep in ICA mode this week, I’m thrilled to take a moment to share our latest publication in Communication Theory: academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

16.06.2025 16:38 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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Happening now at #ICA25: Diego Garusi is presenting some preliminary findings from our research project on constructive journalists‘ trustbuilding strategies in different European countries ✨

16.06.2025 15:31 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If you are attending #ICA25 consider joining our presentation tomorrow ✨We will present some preliminary findings from our survey on constructive journalism in Europe 🌍

12.06.2025 22:52 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The impact of local culture on journalistic roles and practices: Evidence from the Pacific Islands - Birte Leonhardt, Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, 2025 Scholarship into the role that culture plays in journalistic role orientations and practices remains scarce, despite a small increase in recent years. Drawing o...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Together with Folker Hanusch and Shailendra Singh, we explore the role of culture in shaping journalistic practices in the Pacific Islands! 🌏📰
🔓 Read it for free: doi.org/10.1177/1464...

12.03.2025 07:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Great onboarding meeting with new & ongoing #YECREA reps! Excited to keep supporting early career researchers in media & communication studies through networking, mentorship & collaboration. Let’s make an impact together!

11.03.2025 07:29 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Applications: YECREA Section Representatives 2025 – Yecrea

Attention #ECRs! @yecrea.bsky.social is searching for 16 new YECREA section representatives. It’s a great opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral researchers to engage in academia and broaden their network. I enjoyed my time in YECREA very much - happy to answer any questions!
tinyurl.com/cfpyecrea

12.12.2024 09:55 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

We are looking for some new #yecrea representatives! 👇

08.01.2025 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It also means saying goodbye to Sandra Banjac , Phoebe Maares and Antonio Cuartero as #YECREA management who have done an incredible job organizing (pre)conferences, reviewing grant applications, supporting all #yecrea reps and much more! Thank you so much for your fantastic work 🫶👏

27.09.2024 15:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yesterday at #ECREA24 we had our #yecrea business meeting where among other things we elected the new YECREA management team!
Emilija Garcin, Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu and Alba Diez-Gracia take on this important and exciting role and will represent #ECRs and #PhDs in the upcoming years! ✨🙌

27.09.2024 15:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
ECREA - Home

In the meantime, you can stay up to date by simply signing up for our newsletter (Log in to the ecrea.eu intranet >> Go to your profile by clicking on your name in the top right corner >> Click on “Edit profile” >> Become a member of YECREA)

27.09.2024 15:20 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We would like to thank all #ECRs and everyone else who came to our #yecrea event at #ECREA2024 yesterday! We're so happy that the event was such a success and hope you enjoyed the view on the rooftop terrace as much as we did! We're already looking forward to future meetups! 🤗

27.09.2024 15:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely agree! 🙌

27.09.2024 15:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best view at an @yecrea.bsky.social party ever? I’d say so! 👏 @sandrabanjac.bsky.social @birteleonhardt.bsky.social

26.09.2024 17:35 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

We look forward to continuing the great discussions and sharing the important results with everyone in the future ✨ #staytuned

24.09.2024 07:29 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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We had a great time at our #YECREA pre-conference at #ECREA24 in Ljubljana!🙏Besides highly interesting presentations from our participants, we had fruitful and solution-oriented discussions on how to find meaning as an #ECR or #PhD in the precarious academic environment🙌

24.09.2024 07:28 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 4

❗️Attention all #ECREA2024 attendees❗️
📅Save the date: Our #yecrea business meeting will take place on Thursday, September 26 from 4-4:40 pm in room FDV 19 🙌
It's a great opportunity to meet other #ECRs and get to know the new #yecrea management team. Please attend if you can✨

09.09.2024 09:15 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Diego Garusi and @birteleonhardt.bsky.social start day 2 with a study on trust-building strategies of constructive journalists, at 10am in lecture theatre 4 (panel 13). #ecreajss24

10.04.2024 17:18 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Have you been accepted to #ECREA? 🎉 Here's a great opportunity for #ECRs to network! #YECREA is organising a FREE pre-conference for #ECC2024 🙌

12.03.2024 14:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

4 more days left to apply for a position as a #YECREA representative! This is a great opportunity for #ECRs to get involved and build a network in the communication research community More Info:

11.03.2024 08:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is a great opportunity to become part of the communication research community and meet people across sections to work together on rethinking a better academia 💭
We look forward to receiving your abstract submissions ✨
👉More Info: yecrea.eu/2024/01/24/y...

07.03.2024 15:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🚨Deadline Extension: We extend the deadline for our FREE pre-conference at #ECC2024 to 12 April 🚨
There, we will not only talk about (dis)order in academia and the associated problems most #ECRs face in their careers, but we want to look for tangible solutions together 🙏

07.03.2024 15:04 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

New OA publication from team members Folker Hanusch and Birte Leonhardt, together with Shailendra Singh and Geraldine Panapasa!

22.02.2024 09:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Great news for a Monday! Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, Geraldine Panapasa and my paper is out in Journalism Practice 🙌 we explore Fijian women journalists' experiences of sexual harassment and show how widespread the phenomenon is. The paper is open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

19.02.2024 13:54 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1