Gabriele Hooffacker

Gabriele Hooffacker ( born February 10, 1959 in Munich) is a German journalist and journalism teacher. She teaches at the University of Technology, Economy and Culture in Leipzig.

Life

Gabriele Hooffacker studied German, history and economics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. Meanwhile, she worked in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. In 1986 she was awarded his doctorate with a thesis on broadsheets of the 17th century.

Together with Peter and other Lokk she founded in 1987 mailbox network for environmental, women's, peace and human rights groups (from 1991: CL- network). In 1998, she published the " online guide women and Networks", together with Rena tangent about Androcentrism the internet. 1997 appeared the "Online Guide Politics and Society", jointly with Peter Lokk in which she documented right-wing extremist activities on the Internet. You and Peter Lokk got together in 1997 the first prize of the Society for Media Education ( GMK ). In 1999 she founded the Munich Academy journalists.

As a journalist, she works for the online magazines telepolis and onlinejournalismus.de and the magazine " journalist ". Previously, she wrote for the computer magazines c't, PC Professional or PC Direct and Star magazines or Focus. Your non-fiction books about media and the Internet appear in Rowohlt -Verlag, in Econ or trade media at Springer.

Gabriele Hooffacker has founded in Munich in 1999, the journalism academy, the member of the media campus Bavaria, the governing body for media education and further training in Bavaria. She teaches online journalism including at the Leipzig School of Media, editorial offices and businesses. Since 2006 she has been together with Walther von La Roche ( 1936-2010 ), the journalism series "Journalistic Practice" out. Since 2010 she leads the book series by Econ Verlag, Since 2013 Springer specialized media as the sole editor on. Gabriele Hooffacker is a member of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies and in the jury of the Alternative Media Award.

Publications (selection)

• (together with Peter Lokk ): public relations practice: handbook for media relations, Econ, Berlin 2011, Row: Journalistic Practice, ISBN 978-3-430-20119-3.
• Online Journalism: Writing and Designing for the Internet; a manual for training and practice, 3rd completely revised edition, Econ, Berlin 2010, Row: Journalistic Practice, ISBN 978-3-430-20096-7.
• (together with Peter Lokk ): We make newspaper: a handbook for journalism to make your own, Steidl, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-88243 X -130.