Scholars
Nadine Strauß
University of Zurich
Based in
Switzerland
Europe
Nadine Strauß is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Media Management at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich.
Previously, she completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where she studied the role of the news media for sustainable finance. Before that, she worked as a Postdoc at the Media Innovation Lab at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna.
Strauß obtained her Ph.D., with the thesis “News media & the stock market: Assessing mutual relationships” from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed a Research Master’s in Communication Science (cum laude). During her Ph.D., she undertook a research visit to the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Her research interests include corporate sustainability communication (e.g., net-zero, science-based targets), greenwashing, financial communication, as well as business and financial journalism.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Germany Switzerland United KingdomFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Communications research Net ZeroPublications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Knowles, S., Strauß, N., & Cinceoglu, V. (2024). The Framing of Economic Inequality through the Pandemic. Journal of Applied Media and Journalism Studies, 13, 177–197.
Strauß, N. (2024). News Coverage about Sustainable Finance in Germany: Topics, Actors, Sentiment and Differences Across News Outlets. Journal of Environmental Media, 1-23.
Volk, S., Schulz, A., Blassnig, S., Marschlich, S., Nguyen, M. H., Strauß, N. (2024). Selecting, avoiding, disconnecting: A focus group study of people’s strategies for dealing with information abundance in the contexts of news, entertainment, and personal communication. Information, Communication & Society.
Cinceoglu, V., & Strauß, N. (2024). Blowing the Whistle on Sustainable Investments: How Media- Intensive Whistleblower Activities in The Realm of Sustainable Finance/ESG Impact Financial Institutions. Journalism.
Strauß, N., & Mpadanes, M. (2024). Tackling Societal Challenges as Opportunities: A Case Study of a Swiss Foundation’s Value-Creating Function”. Journal of Communication Management, 28(2), 328–344.
Strauß, N., Krakow, J., & Chesney, M. (2023). It’s the News Stupid! The Relationship Between News Attention, Literacy, Trust, Greenwashing Perceptions, and Sustainable Finance Investment in Switzerland. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investments, 13(4), 1480-1505.
Angst, M., & Strauß, N. (2023). Discourses about Sustainability and Digitalization in Europe over Time. GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32(1), 10–20.
O’Neill, S., Hayes, S., Strauß, N., Doutreix, M.-N., Steentjes, K., Ettinger, J., Westwood, N., Painter, J. (2023). Visual portrayals of fun in the sun in European news outlets misrepresent heatwave risks. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 90–103.[1]
Strauß, N. (2022). Covering sustainable finance: Role perceptions, journalistic practices and moral dilemmas. Journalism, 23(6), 1194–1212.
Strauß, N., Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Doutreix, M.-N., Wonneberger, A., & Walton, P. (2022). Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions. Journalism Practice.
Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Doutreix, M.-N., Strauß, N., Wonneberger, A., & Walton, P. (2021). Is it climate change? Coverage by online news sites of the 2019 European summer heatwaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Climatic Change, 169(4).
Strauß, N., Huber, B., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2021). Structural Influences on the News Finds Me Perception: Why People Believe They Don’t Have to Actively Seek News Anymore. Social Media + Society, 7(2), 1–21.
Strauß, N. (2021). Framing Sustainable Finance: A Critical Analysis of Op-Eds in the Financial Times. International Journal of Business Communication.
Strauß, N. (2021). Devil’s Advocate or Agenda Setter? The Role of Journalists Covering Sustainable Finance in Europe. Journalism Studies, 22(9), 1200–1218.
Strauß, N. (2021). Communicating Sustainable Responsible Investments as Financial Advisors: Engaging Private Investors with Strategic Communication. Sustainability, 13(3), 3161.
Strauß, N. Huber, B., & Gil de Zúñiga, H (2020). “Yes, I Saw It – But Didn’t Read It…” A Cross-Country Study, Exploring Relationships between Incidental News Exposure and News Use across Platforms. Digital Journalism, 8(9), 1181–1205.
Strauß, N., Alonso-Muñoz, L., & Gil de Zúñiga, H. (2020). Bursting the filter bubble: The mediating effect of discussion frequency on network heterogeneity. Online Information Review, 44(6), 1161–1181.
Gil de Zúñiga, H., Strauß, N., & Huber, B. (2020). The proliferation of the “news finds me” perception across societies. International Journal of Communication, 14, 1605–1633.
Strauß, N. (2019). Using an Interdisciplinary Multi-Method Approach to Explain the Relationships between News Media and the Stock Market. SAGE Research Method Cases.
Gil de Zúñiga, H., Huber, B., & Strauß, N. (2019). Social media and democracy. El Profesional de la Información, 27(1), 1172–1180.
Strauß, N., & Holmes Smith, C. (2019). Buying on rumors: How financial news flows affect the share price of Tesla. Corporate Communication: An International Journal, 24(4), 594–607.
Strauß, N. (2019). Financial journalism in the post-crisis era: a recent assessment of the role of financial journalist for financial markets. Journalism, 20(2), 274–291.
Strauß, N. (2018). The role of trust in investor relations: Guiding strategic financial communication. Corporate Communication: An International Journal, 23(1), 2–16.
Strycharz, J., Strauß, N., & Trilling, D. (2018). The role of media coverage in explaining stock market fluctuations: Insights for strategic financial communication. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 21(1), 67–85.
Strauß, N., Vliegenthart, R. & Verhoeven, P. (2018). Intraday news trading: The reciprocal relationships between the stock market and economic news. Communication Research, 45(7), 1054–1077.
Strauß, N. & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2017). News media coverage and initial public offerings in Germany: Explaining flotation performance. Corporate Communication: An International Journal, 22(4), 523–541.
Strauß, N. & Jonkman, J. (2017). The benefit of issue management: anticipating crises in the digital age. Journal of Communication Management, 21(1), 34–50.
Strauß, N., Vliegenthart, R. & Verhoeven, P. (2016). Lagging behind? Emotions in newspaper articles and stock market prices in the Netherlands. Public Relations Review, 42(4), 548–555.
Strauß, N. & R. Vliegenthart, R. (2017). Reciprocal influence? Investigating implicit frames in press releases and financial newspaper coverage during the German banking crisis. Public Relations Review, 43(2), 392–405.
Strauß, N. (2015). German financial media’s responsiveness to Deutsche Bank’s cultural change. Public Relations Review, 41(5). 435–437.
Strauß, N., Kruikemeier, S., van der Meulen, H. & van Noort, G. (2015). Digital diplomacy in GCC countries: Strategic communication of Western embassies on Twitter. Government Information Quarterly, 32(4), 369–379.
Monographs/Books
Hoffmann, C.P., & Strauß, N. (2024). Effective Financial Communication – Key Concepts, Empirical Insights, and Implications for Practice. London, UK: Routledge.
Strauß, N. (2017). News media and the stock market: Assessing mutual relationships. An interdisciplinary multi-method study of financial journalism, news media, emotions, market events and the stock market. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam School of Communication Research. ISBN: 978-94-6332-288-1.
Book Chapters
Strauß, N. (2024). But is it Sustainable? – Exploring business journalists’ and climate change. In J. Weber, & R.S. Dunham (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Business Journalism. London, UK: Routledge.
Strauß, N., Painter, J., Ettinger, J., Doutreix, M.-N., Wonneberger, A., & Walton, P. (2022). Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions. In R.E. Gutsche & J. Pinto (Eds.), Journalism and Reporting Synergistic Effects of Climate Change. London, UK: Routledge.
Strauß, N., Knowles, S., & Cinceoglu, V. (2023). Understanding Financial Institutions – The Role of Reading Economic News in Germany and the UK. Ireneusz Miciuła (ed.), Financial Literacy in Today’s Global Market. IntechOpen.
Knowles, S., & Strauß, N. (2023). Deconstructing Discourse: Applying Interview Research in the Economic Newsroom. In H. Silke, M. Rieder, & F. Quinn (eds.), How to Read Economic News: A Critical Approach to Economic Journalism. Abington, UK: Taylor & Francis.
Cinceoglu, V., Lievonen, M., & Strauß, N. (2023). Corporate lobbying on sustainable finance: how financial lobbying drives negative engagement behavior on Twitter. In E. Oliveira, Gonçalves, G. (Eds.), The Normative Imperative – Sociopolitical Challenges of Strategic and Organizational Communication. Proceedings of the ECREA Organisational and Strategic Communication Section Conference held at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, 5-8 July 2023.
Gauly, T., & Strauß, N. (2018). Über das Ethos der Medien und die Ökonomisierung der Information. Eine medienethische Betrachtung aus praktischer Sicht. Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften.
Other Reports
Schäfer, M., & Strauß, N. (2025). Brennpunkt Klima Schweiz – 3.2.2 – I5 Kommunikation. Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT). Proclim – Forum für Klima und globalen Wandel.
Bulian, J., Schäfer, M.S., Amini, A., Lam, H., Ciaramita, M., Gaiarin, B., Huebscher, M.C., Buch, C., Mede, N., Leippold, M., Strauß, N. (authors in random order, 2023). Assessing Large Language Models on Climate Information. arXiv, 2310.02932.
Marschlich, S., Vogler, D., & Strauß, N. (2022). Qualität und Bedeutung der Wirtschaftsberichterstattung in Schweizer Medien. Forschungszentrum Öffentlichkeit und Gesellschaft (fög).
Strauß, N. & Mpadanes, M. (2022). Impact Report 2021 (internal). StrategieDialog21.
Painter, J., Strauß, N., & Mroz, G. (2022). An analysis of the presence of key NGO messages on Twitter and in 20 popular news.