# Irene Neverla > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Irene_Neverla > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Irene_Neverla.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Neverla > Source revision: 1348148050 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Austrian professor Irene Neverla in Berlin in 2022 Born 11 February 1952 (1952-02-11) (age 74) Graz Education University of Vienna University of Salzburg LMU Munich Occupation academic Employer Free University of Berlin Known for climate communication Children one **Irene Neverla** (born 11 February 1952) is an [Austrian](/source/Austria) professor of communication. Neverla chairs the Austrian state broadcaster's advisory board. ## Life Neverla was born in [Graz](/source/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](/source/University_of_Vienna) and the [University of Salzburg](/source/University_of_Salzburg).[1] She gained her doctorate at [LMU Munich](/source/LMU_Munich).[1] 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.[2] Her research focuses on journalism and reception research, visual communication, environmental, scientific and climate communication with a focus on climate change.[3] After her retirement in September 2017,[4] 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.[1] In 2022, she took part in a panel discussion at the [Free University of Berlin](/source/Free_University_of_Berlin) asking "Can the world still be saved?" with [Antje Wilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antje_Wilton&action=edit&redlink=1), the journalist [Sara Schurmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sara_Schurmann&action=edit&redlink=1), Simon Horst and [Carolin Schwegler](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolin_Schwegler&action=edit&redlink=1). In the same year, she spoke out against the plans of [Roland Weissman](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland_Weissman&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Weissman)] 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.[5] ## Selected works - *Environmental Journalism*, 2014 (editor with Henrik Bødker)[3] - *Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions*[6] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-fub_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-fub_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-fub_1-2) ["The Institute welcomes Irene Neverla as new Honorary Professor"](https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/kommwiss/institut/aus_dem_institut/2019/ineverla/index.html). *www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de*. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2022-11-12. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Frauen als Nachrichtensprecherinnen: Frühe Welterklärerinnen"](https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/fruhe-welterklarerinnen-8109079.html). *Der Tagesspiegel Online* (in German). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [1865-2263](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1865-2263). Retrieved 2022-11-13. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) Bodker, Henrik; Neverla, Irene (2014-10-29). [*Environmental Journalism*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2x8iBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22irene+neverla%22&pg=PA1). Routledge. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-317-85004-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-85004-5). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla : Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften : Universität Hamburg"](https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/ueber-den-fachbereich/personen/neverla-irene.html). *www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de* (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-12. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["ORF-Public Value Beirat sieht demokratiepolitische Bedeutung des ORF durch Kürzung des Textangebotes auf "Blauer Seite" gefährdet"](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). *OTS.at* (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-13. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Voltmer, Katrin; Christensen, Christian; Neverla, Irene; Stremlau, Nicole; Thomass, Barbara; Vladisavljević, Nebojša; Wasserman, Herman (2019-08-28). [*Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions*](https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGrDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22irene+neverla%22&pg=PA59). Springer Nature. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-030-16748-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-030-16748-6). 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