Prof. Dr. Jakob Vicari

Teaching areas: Data journalism and digital media forensics

Prof. Dr. Jakob Vicari, born in 1981, has been a professor at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2025. He trained at the Deutsche Journalistenschule and studied journalism in Munich and Geneva.

Vicari is a pioneer of sensor data journalism. In 2018 he and Astrid Csuraji founded tactile.news in Lüneburg, a consultancy for new forms of journalism with a focus on dialogue and artificial intelligence.

At Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts he is responsible for data projects in Visual Journalism and in Journalism, and teaches project management and image verification.

Contact:
T: +49 176 60801551
jakob-jochen-emil.vicari@hs-hannover.de

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