CURRICULUM VITAE Professor Lennart Weibull Born: March 20, 1946 Seglaregatan 4 S-414 57 GÖTEBORG (SWEDEN) Degrees Fil kand (B.A.), Göteborg University 1968 (Political Science, Psychology and Philosophy) Fil Dr (Ph.D.), Göteborg University 1983 (Political Science) Docent (Associate Professor), Göteborg University 1984 (Mass Communication) Positions Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University 1968-1971 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University 1971-1975 Researcher, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund for Social Science Research, Stockholm 1975-1976 Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Unit of Mass Communication, Göteborg University 1976-1983 Senior Lecturer, Unit of Mass Communication, University of Göteborg 1983-88 Co-Director of the SOM Institute for applied survey research, Göteborg University 1986- Professor of Mass Media Research, Göteborg University 1988- Selected Research programs Local Radio in Sweden, 1973-1974 The Functions of the Press in Society, 1974-1976 The Newspaper Research Program (studies of media audiences), 1979-2009 Statistics of the Swedish Mass Media System, 1982-1990 Regional Newspaper Development, 1985-1993 The Ethics of Swedish Journalists, 1987-1995 Surveys of Swedish journalists 1989-
BALTICOM Views of the World in the Baltic Area, 1991 1997 History of Swedish Broadcasting, 1993 2000 Citizens' Reaction to the Estonia Ferry Catastrophe, 1994-95 Concentration and Pluralism of the Swedish Media System, 1995-1996 Security and the Media, 2000-05 Democracy and the Media 2003-07 Complaints to the Board of Investigation of Radio and Television 2004-05 The History of Successful Newspaper Companies 2005-2009 Opinion of Swedish Alcohol Policy 2005- Health, Culture and Personality 2009- Data Development of the SOM-institute 2010- Selected academic assignments Member of the Swedish Social Science Research Council Study Group on Media Research, 1978-1979 Member of the Board of the Social Science Faculty, Göteborg University, 1977-1984, 1990 Member of the Board of the Nordic Documentation Centre for Mass Communication Research (NORDICOM) 1977-1980, Chairman 1985-91 Chairman of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 1990 96 Member on the National Research Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities, subgroup for political science and mass communication, 1992-95 Member on the Swedish Bank Tercentenary Research Foundation, subgroup for law, political science and mass communication, 1995-99 Dean of Social Science Faculty, Göteborg University 1999-2006 Deputy Vice Chancellor, Göteborg University 2006- Other Assignments Member of the Advisory Board for Gazette, 1985-1995 Contributing Editor, European Journal of Communication, 1988- Expert for the Swedish National Encyclopaedia in the field of media and communication 1992-1996
Expert for the Swedish National Encyclopaedia for continuous updating of media and communication 2008- Member of the Advisory Board for Nordic Media Statistics at NORDICOM 1996- Member of the Advisory Board for Journalism Studies, 2000- Member of the Advisory Council for Democracy of SNS (The Swedish Association for Business and Society) 2004-2007 Member of the Advisory Board for Northern Lights 2008- Member of the Advisory Board for Publizistik 2009- Contributing Expert (Selected public assignments) The 1972 Government Commission on the Press, 1972-1975 The Evaluation of the Two Channel TV System, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, 1969-1973 The Nordic Commission on Satellite Television, 1977-1978 The 1993 Government Commission on the Press 1993-1995 The 1995 Government Commission on Media Concentration 1995-1997 The 2007 Government Commission on Trust 2007-2008 The Board for a Safe and Human City. City of Göteborg 2001-2011 Conference Co-ordinator Unesco Consultation on Research in Communication Technology, Göteborg 1986 IX. Nordic Conference of Mass Communication Research, Borgholm, 1989 Selected books and reports Socialdemokratisk press och presspolitik 1899-1909. Stockholm, 1968, Tiden (With Stig Hadenius and Jan-Olof Seveborg) /The Socialdemocratic Press and Newspaper Policy 1899-1909/ Partipress. Socialdemokratisk press 1910-1920. Stockholm 1970, Raben&Sjögren (With Stig Hadenius and Jan-Olof Seveborg) /Party Press Relations/ Press radio TV. En bok om massmedia i dagens samhälle. Second, revised edition, Stockholm 1973, Aldus-Bonniers (with Stig Hadenius) Pressens funktioner i samhället. En forskningsrapport till 1972 års pressutredning (SOU 1975:78), Stockholm 1975 /The Functions of the Press in Society/
Massmedier. En bok om press radio TV. Stockholm 1978, Bonniers (with Stig Hadenius) /Mass Media/ Tidningsläsning i Sverige. Tidningsinnehav. Tidningsval Läsvanor. Stockholm 1983, Publica 500 p /Newspaper Readership in Sweden/ Vad gör kabel-tv i Sverige? Lund, Studentlitteratur 1989 cable television do to Sweden?/ (Editor, with Keith Roe) /What does Åttiotal. Svensk opinion i empirisk belysning. Department of Political Science and the Unit of Mass Communication, Göteborg University 1989 (Editor, with Sören Holmberg) /The Eighties: Empirical Studies of the Swedish Opinion/ Dagspressen och dess läsare. Stockholm 1989, Almqvist&Wiksell International (Editor, with Karin Björkqvist) /The Daily Press and Its Readers/ Svenska journalister. Ett grupporträtt (Editor) Stockholm 1991, Tiden /Swedish Journalists. A Group Portait/ Trendbrott? Department of Political Science och Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Göteborg University 1992 (Editor, with Sören Holmberg) /Changing Trends in Public Opinion?/ Mått på medier. Lund, Studentlitteratur 1992 200p (With Karl Erik Gustafsson) /Measurement of Media/ Sjukvårdspolitik och opinionsbildning. En studie av hur pressen behandlat neddragningar inom sjukvården. Svensk Information, Stockholm 1994 150 p (With Helene Svedberg) /Study on the journalistic treatment of reduction in local hospitals/ Vägval. SOM-undersökningen 1993. The SOM Institute, Göteborg University 1994 (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Dagspressen i 1990-talets medielandskap. En expertrapport från Pressutredningen -94. SOU 1994:94 (Tillsammans med Karl Erik Gustafsson) /The Daily Press in the Media Landscape of the 1990s/ Tidningsmiljöer. Dagstidningsläsning på 1990-talet. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Göteborg University 1995 (editor and main author; with Charlotta Kratz) /Newspaper Environments: newspaper reading in the 1990s. Det gamla riket. The SOM Institute, Göteborg University 1995 (editor; with Sören Holmberg) Publicistiska seder. Studier i svensk pressetik. Stockholm 1995 Tiden/SJF (with Britt Börjesson) /Publicist traditions. Studies in Swedish Press Ethics/ Mitt i nittiotalet. The SOM Institute, Göteborg University 1996 (editor; with Sören Holmberg) /In the Mid-90s. A book of Swedish public opinion/ Ett missnöjt folk? The SOM Institute, Göteborg University 1997 (editor; with Sören Holmberg) /A Discontent People? A book of Swedish public opinion/
Massmedier: press, radio och TV i förvandling. Sjätte helt omarbetade upplagan. Stockholm 1997: Bonnier-Alba (with Stig Hadenius) /Mass Media: Press, Radio and TV under Change/ Return to the Western World. Cultural and Political Perspectives on Estonian Post-Communist Transition. Tartu, 1997, Tartu University Press (co-editor with Marju Lauristin, Peeter Vihalemm and Karl Erik Rosengren) Ljusnande framtid The SOM Institute, Göteborg University 1999 (editor; with Sören Holmberg) (The Opinion Society. A book of Swedish public opinion/ Tryckt. 20 kapitel om dagstidningar i början av 2000-talet. Göteborg: The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Göteborg University (editor; with Ingela Wadbring) (Print. 20 chapters on newspapers in the early 2000 s.). Land, Du välsignade? Göteborg 2001: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Spegla, granska, tolka. Aktualitetsjournalistik i radio och TV 1925-1995. Stockholm 2001: Prisma (With Monika Djerf-Pierre). Efter Arbetet. Synen på nedläggningen och dess konsekvenser. Göteborg 2002: Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikationen och SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet (Editor; with Ingela Wadbring och Annika Bergström) Det våras för politiken: trettiotvå artiklar om politik medier och samhälle. Göteborg 2002: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Fåfängans marknad. Göteborg 2003: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Ju mer vi är tillsammans. Göteborg 2004: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Mediernas integritet. Rapport från SNS Demokratiråd. Stockholm 2005: SNS Förlag (With Monika Djerf-Pierre, Olof Petersson och Jesper Strömbäck) Lyckan kommer, lyckan går. Göteborg 2005: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Du stora nya värld. Göteborg 2006: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Det nya Sverige. Göteborg 2007: The SOM Institute (Editor; with Sören Holmberg) Medierna och yttrandefriheten Stockholm 2007: SNS förlag (With Anker Brink Lund, Olof Petersson and Eivind Smith) Göteborgs universitets Studentbarometer 2007. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet (with M Leffler och J Schaller) The Northern European/Democratic Corporatist Model Countries. Introduction. In Terzis, G (Ed.) European Media Governance. National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol/Chicago 2007: Intellect Books. The Swedish Media Landscape. In Terzis, G (Ed.) European Media Governance. National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol/Chicago 2007: Intellect Books (with Anna Maria Jönsson)
An overview and detailed description of European Newspaper readership. In Niiranen, Valtteri (Ed.) Europeans Read Newspapers 2007. Brussels 2007: European Newspaper Association(with Karl Erik Gustafsson). Weibull, Lennart Genombrottsåren för arbetarpressen. I Arbetarpressen 100 år. Borås 2007 Premiss förlag Scandinavian States: Media Systems. In The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Vol. X. Oxford/Malden, MA 2008: Wiley-Blackwell (with Ingela Wadbring) Skilda världar Göteborg 2008: SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs Universitet (Ed, With Sören Holmberg) Massmedier. Press radio och tv i den digitala tidsåldern. Stockholm 2008: Ekerlids förlag (with Stig Hadenius och Ingela Wadbring). Newspapers in a Changing Media World. Swedish Trends (Ed.). Göteborg 2008: The Newspaper Research Programme, University of Gothenburg (With Josefine Sternvik and Ingela Wadbring) From Public Educator to Interpreting Ombudsman. Regimes of Political Journalism in Swedish Public Service Television 1925-2005. In Strömbäck, J, Örsten, M, Aalberg T (Eds.) Communicating Politics. Political Communication in the Nordic Countries. Göteborg 2008: Nordicom.(med Monika Djerf-Pierre) Svensk höst. 2009. Göteborg: SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet (ed; with Sören Holmberg) Freedom of the Press Act of 1766. 2009 In Donsbach, Wolfgang (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication: Media System. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell Ledarskap i framgångsrika tidningsföretag. 2009 Göteborg: Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation, Göteborgs universitet (ed; with Monika Djerf-Pierre) Das Mediensystem Schwedens. 2009 I Internationales Handbuch Medien. Baden Baden: Nomos (with Anna-Maria Jönsson). Media, Markets & Public Spheres. European Media at the Crossroads. Bristol, UK, Chicago: Intellect Books (editor, with Jostein Gripsrud). 2009 Four Decades of European Newspapers: Structure and Content. In Gripsrud, J & Weibull, L (Eds.) Media, markets & Public Spheres. European Media at the Crossroads. Bristol, UK, Chicago: Intellect ooks (with Åsa Nilsson). 2009 The Public Reception of Early Television: When Television was New n the Nordic Countries. Gripsrud, J & Weibull, L (Eds.) Media, markets & Public Spheres. European Media at the Crossroads. ristol, UK, Chicago: Intellect Books (with Taisto Hujanen). 2009 The Swedish Journalism Education Landscape. In Terzis, George (Ed.) European Journalism Education. Bristol, UK, Chicago: Intellect Books (with Marina Ghersetti). 2010 Lycksalighetens ö 2010. Göteborg, SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet (ed., with Sören Holmberg and Henrik Oscarsson).
Massmedier. Tionde uppdaterade upplagan. Stockholm 2011, Ekerlids (with S Hadenius and I Wadbring) From Idealist-Entrepreneur to Corporate Executive: Provincial newspaper editors and publishers ways-of-thinking from the mid-1800s to the present. Journalism Studies, 12 (3) (with Monika Djerf-Pierre).