Vanessa Bitter studied Media and communication and political science in Mainz, Germany. In 2018 she joined Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) in Hamburg after holding various positions in media, PR and advertising. From 2018 until end of 2023, she was Marketing Manager for the dpa’s digital corporate channels.
Since 2021, she has supported the projects of the news literacy initiative #UseTheNews and is working on questions of the news usage and media literacy of young people. In 2024, she coordinates the “Year of News” project. With their initiative “Year of News”, the partners of #UseTheNews aim to draw attention to the importance of trustworthy information and promote the safe use of news, especially among teenagers and young adults.
