Frank Esser is Professor of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich. Before coming to Zurich in 2006, he was assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Oklahoma, Texas-Austin, California-San Diego, and Oslo. He was Chair of ICA’s Journalism Studies Division, Chair of ECREA’s Political Communication Section, and currently serves as Chair of ICA’s Political Communication Division. He is also Associate Editor of the journal Political Communication.
His research focuses on cross-national studies of news journalism and political communication. His publications center around the following themes: International Comparative Research, Mediatization of Politics, Digital Journalism, Western Media Systems, Political Populism and Media, Misinformation, Media Use in Polarized and Fragmented Political Information Environments. He serves on the editorial boards of Political Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Communication Theory, and Journalism.
More information can be found on his website.
