Established media still matter

Dr. Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communications at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Before she went to Nuremberg, she taught at the universities in Mainz, Bochum, and Munich. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (1986), a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard University (1999), a Guest Researcher at the Political Communication Center at the University of Oklahoma in Norman (1995; 1996) and at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2011). She is presently Chair of the Political Communication Research Section of IAMCR. She is a co-editor of the German communication journal Publizistik and a member of the editorial boards of several international journals. Her main research interests are in political communication, media systems, and European media policy. Among her most recent publications are The Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising (2017, edited with Marion Just), Political Campaigning in the Public Space. Election Posters around the Globe (2017, edited with Bengt Johansson) and Handbook on Political Populism (2017, edited with Reinhard Heinisch and Oscar Mazzoleni) and Political Advertising in the 2014 European Parliament Elections (2017, edited with Edoardo Novelli and Kevin Rafter).