Dr. Peter Busch

Biography

Peter Busch has an academic background in journalism and international history, holding a PhD from the London School of Economics and master's degrees in Journalism from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and International History from LSE. He joined King's College London in 2004 and previously worked as a senior broadcast journalist for ZDF, Germany's public television station. He has taught at various institutions including the Free University of Berlin, the University of Erfurt, and the University of Hanover. His current research focuses on the role of war reporting, with interests in propaganda and strategic communication from a historical perspective. He engages in Imperial War Museum projects that involve a large collection of international radio broadcast transcripts produced by the BBC Monitoring service during the Cold War. Busch teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to media and war, including modules on reporting wars and the impact of propaganda. His research extends to significant historical investigations into the use of propaganda by East and West German governments, and he has authored a book on the Vietnam War, while continuing to explore related topics such as the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border conflict. Additionally, he supervises a diverse group of PhD students in areas including Cold War history and the representation of violence in new media.

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