Hendrik Michael was a Research Assistant at the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He holds a PhD from the University of Bamberg. Apart from journalism history, his research focuses on political journalism, scandals, and mass media, and the evolution of media genres. Since 2016 he hosts the International Conferences on Scandalogy in Bamberg.
?André Haller is a former Professor of Marketing, Communication Management, and Digital Marketing at the FH Kufstein Tirol, Austria. His academic career has taken him to the University of Bamberg, Germany, the Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid, Spain, the Linné University Kalmar, Sweden, and other places where he has been involved in research and teaching. From 2019 to 2023 he has been Vice-Chair of the Political Communication Research Section of the IAMCR. His research focuses on strategic and political communication, the digitization of campaigns, and crisis and scandal communication. Since 2016, he has been co-organizing the International Conferences in Scandalogy, where researchers from around the world meet to discuss current research findings.