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Ester Pollack
Ester Pollack, Ph.D., is a professor of journalism studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University and deputy head of department. Her research combines sociological and historical perspectives on the relations between two of societies’ institutions; journalism and politics. Pollack received her doctorate in 2001 with a thesis on the development of Swedish crime journalism and criminal policy during the twentieth century; and has followed up with more recent analyses on crime news and the police’s role as a news source as well as studies about the role of investigative journalism and corruption. A second research area, journalism’s role in the history of politics, covers studies of Swedish news reporting of the Soviet Union in the 1930s and about the Holocaust during the Second World War period. A third area of research focuses on political journalism and political communication, especially the development of mediated political scandals in the Nordic region. Her latest book, written together with Sigurd Allern, discusses the relations between journalists and sources, and the challenges journalism as an institution meets in a time of extensive dissemination of propaganda and disinformation.