Nico Hornig (M.A.)
Research Assistant and PhD Candidate
Office 3.504
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
Phone: +49 (0)231 755 8245
Email: send email
Research and Teaching
Since December 2019, Nico Hornig has been working for the Chair of Economic Policy Journalism and the DoCMA Research Center. Previously, he studied the bachelor's program in Economic Journalism and worked as a trainee at WirtschaftsWoche Online.
His research focuses on the effects of media selection in content analysis and how communication science findings can be used for economics. Also, on the spread and debunking of fake news.
In addition to his work in research and teaching, Nico Hornig studied for a master's degree in economics and journalism and worked for Handelsblatt in Düsseldorf until October 2022.
Publications
- Hornig, N. (2025). Klimawandel: Ein Desinformationsdauerbrenner. merz | medien + erziehung, 69(2), 16-23. https://doi.org/10.21240/merz/2025.2.9
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Hornig, N., Rieger, J., Flossdorf, J., Müller, H., Mündges, S., Jentsch, C., ... & Elmer, C. (2024, February 26). Whom do fact-checkers trust? Unveiling Source Usage Patterns Among German-language Fact- checking Organizations.
- Rieger, J., Hornig, N., Flossdorf, J., Müller, H., Mündges, S., Jentsch, C., ... & Elmer, C. (2023, September). Debunking Disinformation with GADMO: A Topic Modeling Analysis of a Comprehensive Corpus of German-language Fact-Checks. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (pp. 520-531). Link
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Müller, H., Schmidt, T., Rieger, J., Hornig, N., & Hufnagel, L. M. (2023). The Inflation Attention Cycle. DoCMA Working Paper #13. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-23141
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Müller, H., Rieger, J., Schmidt, T., & Hornig, N. (2022). An Increasing Sense of Urgency. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22875
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Müller, H., Rieger, J., & Hornig, N. (2022). Vladimir vs. The Virus – a Tale of two Shocks. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22780
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Müller, H., Rieger, J., Schmidt, T., & Hornig, N. (2022). Pressure is high – and rising. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22769
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Müller, H., Schmidt, T., Rieger, J., Hufnagel, L. M., & Hornig, N. (2022). A German Inflation Narrative. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22632
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Müller, H., Rieger, J., & Hornig, N. (2021). Riders on the Storm. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22177
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Müller, H., Rieger, J., & Hornig, N. (2021). “We’re rolling.” DoCMA Working Paper #6. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21974
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Müller, H., Hornig, N., & Rieger, J. (2021). “For the times they are a-changin’”. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21878
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Müller, H., & Hornig, N. (2020). I heard the News today, oh Boy. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21669
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Müller, H., & Hornig, N. (2020). Expecting the Unexpected: A new Uncertainty Perception Indicator (UPI) – concept and first results. DoCMA Working Papers. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-21089
Academic and Working Background
- 10/2017 to 09/2022: working with German business daily “Handelsblatt”, especially economics & politics desk
- 11/2019 to 10/2022: student of the Master’s programme “Economics und Journalismus”, TU Dortmund University
- 2013 to 11/2019: Bachelor’s degree “Wirtschaftspolitischer Journalismus”, TU Dortmund University
- 10/2016 to 09/2017: editorial traineeship at the online platform of German business weekly “WirtschaftsWoche”