Miriam Meckel

Miriam Meckel ( born July 18, 1967 in Hilden ) is a German communication scientist. She is a journalist and director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen.

Life

Miriam Meckel's father, a theologian who was headmaster of Annette von Droste- Gymnasium in Dusseldorf -Benrath. After her high school she studied from 1986 to 1993 in Münster and Taipei, Media and Communication Studies, Sinology, Political Science and Law. It was in 1994 in Münster in Communication Sciences with the work Television without Frontiers? Europe's television between integration and segmentation to Dr. phil. doctorate.

Meckel lives and works in St. Gallen and Berlin. Your partner is the German television journalist Anne Will.

Work

Since 1990, Miriam Meckel worked as a television editor for the newsroom West 3 Currently at the West German Radio in Cologne and Dusseldorf, as well as working freelance VOX television company for shipment world - Vox. From 1994 to 1995 she was Managing Editor and presenter at RTL West Live, from 1995 to 1999 presenter at the Westdeutsche Rundfunk, among other things, for the political magazine Westpol and the WDR Mittagsmagazin NRW at noon. 2006/2007, she hosted a monthly talk show Miriam Meckel - Views on n-tv.

She took over in 1995, a year after their promotion, a substitute professor at the Institute of Communication Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. It was ordinary university professor and executive director of the Institute in 1999.

Since October 2005 she is a professor of corporate communications and also Executive Director at the Institute for Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen. Her research interests are in addition to the two already mentioned disciplines International Communication and media economics. In addition to the chair she became a partner of the PR consultancy Brunswick Group.

2010 Meckel published a book in which she represents her own experience with the burnout syndrome.

Policy

From March 2001 to October 2002 Meckel was Secretary of State for Media and Government Spokesperson of Wolfgang Clement in North Rhine -Westphalia. Following the appointment of successor Clements Peer Steinbrück she was from November 2002 to June 2005 State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. An offer for the SPD to run in the mayoral elections of Munster, rejected the non-party Meckel.

Mandates and commitments

Miriam Meckel is a member of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Science ( DGPuK ) and the International Communication Association (ICA ). She is board member of Message, an international journal of Journalism, and the Institute for the Advancement Young Journalists ( IfP ). As a member of the international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation at the World Bank, it has the Development Gateway Award ( Petersberg Prize ) co-developed.

Miriam Meckel involved in the Initiative New Social Market Economy with the aim of " Ludwig Erhard teaching adapted to the current time."

Since September 2007 she has been member of the scientific advisory board of the German Investor Relations Association eV ( DIRK ).

Honors and Awards

  • 2001 - CICERO orator award in the category of science.

Works

  • Television without Frontiers? Europe's television between integration and segmentation. West German publisher, Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-531-12620-2
  • Global journalism. Professional media communication in the world society. West German publisher, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-531-13422-1
  • International communication. An Introduction. West German publisher, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-531-12681-4
  • Media Myth? The staging of celebrities and fate example Diana Spencer. West German publisher, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-531-13291-1
  • News journalism on television. UGC - media, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-89669-234-8. (Series Practical Journalism, Volume 38 )
  • Newsroom Management: Approaches from theory and practice. West German publisher, Opladen 1999, ISBN 978-3-531-12980-8 ( Contents from the publisher )
  • The happiness of inaccessibility. Ways out of the communication event, Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86774-002-9
  • Letter to my life - experience with a burnout. Rowohlt March 2010, ISBN 978-3498045166
  • NEXT - Memories of a future without us. Rowohlt September 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-04523-4
  • As co-author: The discourse on net neutrality. German Institute for trust and security on the Internet, Hamburg 2013.
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