Prof. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

About

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt is Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication. Her research is in the fields of political communication and journalism, with a particular interest in the temporal dimensions of journalism and the role played by the news media in constructing and negotiating collective pasts and futures. She is currently leading the ERC-funded project “Mediating the Future: The Social Dynamics of Public Projections” (PROFECI) and takes part in a couple of international research networks, including The Worlds of Journalism Study and Project NET, a study of the consumption of news, entertainment, and technology in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States.

Her work has been published in leading journals (see the Publications section) and has received several prestigious international awards, among them the International Communication Association's Outstanding Article Award (2014), the inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award of the International Communication Association's Political Communication Division (2013), and the ICA Political Communication Best Article of the Year Award (2010).

She also serves as head of the Internship Program of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served as Chair of the Journalism Studies Division at the International Communication Association (2018-2020). She received her PhD in 2011 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stay at the Weizenbaum Institute: 16.3.2025 - 16.5.2025