Henrik Örnebring

<p>My current research is focused on three areas: the history of the Black press in the US; threats to and harassment of journalists; and the&nbsp;restructuring of journalistic labor and changing journalistic working conditions in the face of technological and economic transformation.</p>

<p>Previously I have conducted research on comparative European journalism; media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe; local news ecology; comparative media history; and transmedia entertainment&nbsp;from a historical perspective.</p>

<p>My most recent book is <em>Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept&nbsp;</em>(with Michael Karlsson; University of Missouri Press, forthcoming 2022), a history of the notion of journalistic "independence" and its meaning.&nbsp;I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies (Oxford University Press, 2020).</p>

<p>I also have a three-year grant from FORTE (together with Elizabeth Van Couvering and Robert MacKenzie) for the project "Labor market intermediary platforms and mediatization in the Swedish gig economy (SWEGIG)" (2019-21), which studies how new apps and web pages which advertise short-term jobs are changing the employment relationship through new demands of mediated self presentation and self promotion.</p>

<p>Henrik Örnebring mainly teaches Media Theory, Organizational Communication,&nbsp;and supervises bachelor's theses. He is currently the main supervisor of two PhD students (Fredrik Edin and Carina Tenor).</p>

<p>Henrik Örnebring is Advisory Board Member of the Worlds of Journalism Survey (<a href="http://www.worldsofjournalism.org">www.worldsofjournalism.org</a&gt;) led by Professor Thomas Hanitzsch of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,&nbsp;Germany; Advisory Committee Member of the project&nbsp;Journalistic Role Performance Across the Globe (<a href="http://www.journalisticperformance.org/">http://www.journalisticperform…;) led by Dr Claudia Mellado of the University of Santiago, Chile; was a&nbsp;member of the Swedish Research Council Review Panel on Political Science, Media and Communication Studies, and Peace and Conflict Research, 2015-17; Chair of the Swedish Media Research Association (FSMK) 2016-18; and Vice-Chair/Chair of the ICA Journalism Studies Division 2015-18.</p>