Dr Alexandra Borchardt
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
Alexandra Borchardt is Director of Strategic Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. There she developed and leads the seminar series 鈥淥xford Perspectives 鈥 Envisioning the Newsroom in 2020鈥, targeting senior journalists and media managers. Prior to this she was managing editor of S眉ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany鈥檚 leading quality daily.
Alexandra teaches 鈥淟eadership and Strategy in the 21st Century鈥 at TU Munich, gives lectures and talks on digitisation and the media and publishes opinion pieces for example with Project Syndicate. She is the author of Mensch 4.0 鈥 Frei bleiben in einer digitalen Welt (Freedom in a digital world), Guetersloher Verlagshaus (Random House), 2018. She also serves as vice chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Quality Journalism in the Digital Age.
At SZ she held several functions in the politics and business sections. She was also founding editor of S眉ddeutsche鈥檚 鈥楶lan W鈥, an award winning quarterly magazine for women and business. In her reporting she has focused on internet and democracy and the future of work. In 2015 she published Das Internet zwischen Diktatur und Anarchie: Zehn Thesen zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Welt (The Internet between Dictatorship and Anarchy: Ten Assertions about Democracy in the Digital World), S眉ddeutsche Zeitung Edition Streitschrift. Before joining SZ she worked for Financial Times Deutschland and Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tulane University, New Orleans (1994), and in 2013 completed a Programme for Management Development at IESE Business School, Barcelona. She lives in Oxford and outside of Munich with her husband and two children.
Media Conference 2018 is partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the 鈥淒evelopment of creative industries鈥 measure. |