In 2013 and 2014, he was a visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessor) at the Institute of Media and Communication at Dresden University of Technology and at the Institute of Journalism at Dortmund University of Technology. Prior to this, he worked as a research associate at TU Dortmund and at the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, where among other things he was responsible for the scientific coordination of the EU project “Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe” (MediaAcT). Up till today, he acts as a visiting lecturer at Hamburg Media School.

Dr. Eberwein studied Journalism, English and American Literary and Cultural Studies as well as Political Sciences in Dortmund and completed a traineeship (Volontariat) at the daily newspaper “Westfalenpost” in Hagen. He looks back at more than 20 years of professional experience in practical journalism – be it for daily news media in the print, broadcasting or online sector, or, more recently, as chief editor of various learned journals. From 2005 to 2008, he was the review editor of “Publizistik”; in 2009, he co-founded the online review journal “r:k:m – Rezensionen:Kommunikation:Medien“.

His doctoral thesis, successfully defended in 2013, investigates into narrative forms of journalistic reporting in history and present. He has published 13 books and more than 50 book chapters and journal articles – among others in the “Journal of Communication”, the “European Journal of Communication”, “Journalism”, “Journalism Practice”, and “Javnost – The Public”.

Besides, Eberwein is one of the Vice Presidents of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and a member of the executive boards of registered associations such as the Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center (IMEC), Verein zur Förderung der publizistischen Selbstkontrolle (FPS), and Verein zur Förderung der Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund.