Prof. Michael Hauri

Prof. Michael Hauri

Programme Spokesperson
Subject area: Digital Publishing

Prof. Michael Hauri (born 1983) has been a professor at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2021. After studying communication design, he worked as a freelance photographer before co-founding a digital storytelling studio in Berlin. His multimedia work has won numerous awards, including a World Press Photo Award and a Grimme Online Award for projects produced by the team he led. In 2023 and 2024 he served on the Grimme Online Award jury. Since 2011 he has trained staff at magazines, public broadcasters, NGOs and journalism schools, and he advises newsrooms and publishers on digital strategy. Among them is chrismon, whose website relaunch he also supported.

At Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts he set up the Educational Newsroom, a teaching newsroom for digital journalism that produces the programme’s online magazine. He is also a member of the advisory board of TruePicture, the leading grant for young photojournalists in the German-speaking world.

Contact
Phone +49 511 9296 8241
michael.hauri@hs-hannover.de

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