Christina Elmer
From September 2021, Christina Elmer is Professor for Digital Journalism and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Previously she was deputy head of editorial development at DER SPIEGEL, where she had co-managed the relaunch of the digital platform and established the data journalism department. During a research sabbatical in 2021 as the first Journalist in Residence at the Cyber Valley research network, she investigated the explainability of AI methods.
Before she joined SPIEGEL ONLINE as a science editor in 2013, Elmer worked at Stern magazine’s investigative unit. Her journalistic career began in 2007 at the German press agency dpa, where she was part of a team which set up Germany’s first department for data journalism and computer assisted reporting. Elmer studied Journalism and Biology. She is a shareholder of the human rights organization AlgorithWatch and a board member of Netzwerk Recherche, Germany’s largest association supporting investigative reporters.
