{{Short description|Austrian professor}} {{Infobox person | name = Irene Neverla | image = Prof. Irene Neverla bei Podiumsdiskussion zur Klimakommunikation an der FU Berlin (52488440332).jpg | image_size = | caption = in Berlin in 2022 | other_names = | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|11 February 1952}} | birth_place = [[Graz]] | education = [[University of Vienna]]<br/>[[University of Salzburg]]<br/>[[LMU Munich]] | occupation = academic | employer = [[Free University of Berlin]] | known_for = climate communication | children = one | parents = | relatives = | website = | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Irene Neverla''' (born 11 February 1952) is an [[Austria]]n professor of communication. Neverla chairs the Austrian state broadcaster's advisory board.
== Life == Neverla was born in [[Graz]] in 1952. She first studied journalism at the Vienna International Press Centre, before she studied communication science, sociology and psychology at the [[University of Vienna]] and the [[University of Salzburg]].<ref name="fub" />
She gained her doctorate at [[LMU Munich]].<ref name="fub" /> [[File:Podiumsdikusssion „Ist die Welt noch zu retten?“ zur Klimakommunikation an der Freien Universität Berlin, 02.11.2022 (52489476233).jpg|thumb|left|Panel discussion "Can the world still be saved?" on climate communication at the Freie Universität Berlin, November 2nd, 2022 left to right:]] In 1992, she became a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, specializing in journalism and communication sciences.
In 1980, she published her study ''Female journalists: women in a male profession'' noting that women were in the minority and there was a natural expectation that men would take the lead in discussions.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Frauen als Nachrichtensprecherinnen: Frühe Welterklärerinnen |language=de-DE |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/fruhe-welterklarerinnen-8109079.html |access-date=2022-11-13 |issn=1865-2263}}</ref>
Her research focuses on journalism and reception research, visual communication, environmental, scientific and climate communication with a focus on climate change.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Bodker |first1=Henrik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2x8iBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22irene+neverla%22&pg=PA1 |title=Environmental Journalism |last2=Neverla |first2=Irene |date=2014-10-29 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-85004-5 |language=en}}</ref>
After her retirement in September 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla : Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften : Universität Hamburg |url=https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/ueber-den-fachbereich/personen/neverla-irene.html |access-date=2022-11-12 |website=www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de |language=de}}</ref> she accepted an honorary professorship in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin in 2018 and began teaching at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Sciences.<ref name="fub">{{Cite web |date=2019-12-02 |title=The Institute welcomes Irene Neverla as new Honorary Professor |url=https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/kommwiss/institut/aus_dem_institut/2019/ineverla/index.html |access-date=2022-11-12 |website=www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, she took part in a panel discussion at the [[Free University of Berlin]] asking "Can the world still be saved?" with [[Antje Wilton]], the journalist [[Sara Schurmann]], Simon Horst and [[Carolin Schwegler]]. In the same year, she spoke out against the plans of {{ill|Roland Weissman|de}} of the Austrian state broadcaster to halve the amount of text they have online to replace it with video. Neverla chairs the broadcaster's advisory board and said this was a mistake as although video was useful it was text that was the core of good jounrnalism and communication.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ORF-Public Value Beirat sieht demokratiepolitische Bedeutung des ORF durch Kürzung des Textangebotes auf "Blauer Seite" gefährdet |url=https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20221110_OTS0167/orf-public-value-beirat-sieht-demokratiepolitische-bedeutung-des-orf-durch-kuerzung-des-textangebotes-auf-blauer-seite-gefaehrdet |access-date=2022-11-13 |website=OTS.at |language=de}}</ref>
== Selected works ==
* ''Environmental Journalism'', 2014 (editor with Henrik Bødker)<ref name=":0" /> * ''Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Voltmer |first1=Katrin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGrDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22irene+neverla%22&pg=PA59 |title=Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions |last2=Christensen |first2=Christian |last3=Neverla |first3=Irene |last4=Stremlau |first4=Nicole |last5=Thomass |first5=Barbara |last6=Vladisavljević |first6=Nebojša |last7=Wasserman |first7=Herman |date=2019-08-28 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-030-16748-6 |language=en}}</ref>
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