Lars Rinsdorf is professor for journalism and head of the digital journalism programme at HdM Stuttgart Media University since 2008.

His fields of research are innovation management and quality in journalism.

Before joining HdM he used to be head of research and development at a huge German newspaper publisher. Rinsdorf got a degree in journalism and spatial planning at TU Dortmund, Germany.

Rinsdorf was coordinator of the Erasmus+ founded strategic partnership “European Media Cloud Campus” and visiting professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam in 2017. He’s also partner in the multidisciplinary research group “DORIAN Scrutinize and thwart disinformation” and the German-Korean research project
“Envisioning Unity”, funded by the DAAD.

Lars Rinsdorf is communication manager of, and in charge of the dissemination plan for the DIALOGUE project.