Leif Kramp, Dr. phil., is a media, communication and history scholar. He is the Research Coordinator of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. Kramp is author and editor of various books about media and journalism. Previously he has worked as a lecturer and research associate at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media and Communications in Hamburg, as a lecturer at the Hamburg Media School and as a research fellow at the Institute for Media and Communication Policy in Berlin. He is an associate of the stiftung neue verantwortung (new responsibility foundation) in the project "Future of Journalism" (2010-2011).