At the dawn of the sixties, television in Germany was about entertainment more than anything else. That all changed on 4 June 1961 – when broadcaster ARD launched Panorama.More ...
How do Wikileaks and other disclosure portals influence journalism? Not in the least, says journalist David Schraven. But they do point in the right direction.More ...
The Institute for Newspaper Research (Institut für Zeitungsforschung / IfZ) in Dortmund collects historical and contemporary newspapers and magazines from German-speaking countries.More ...
It is still too early for complacency: newspapers continue to battle with dwindling circulations. All the same, there are signs that weekly and Sunday newspapers are beginning to buck the trend.More ...
With a “Slow Media Manifesto”, bloggers in Germany want to swim against their own stream: they want to create islands of slowness in an increasingly accelerated media landscape.More ...
The ubiquity of blogs updated in real time to social news sites has caused serious problems for the press – with far-reaching consequences for the journalism.More ...
May 2010: Lena Meyer-Landrut wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. The success story of an unusual collaboration between the private TV channel ProSieben and the public broadcaster ARD.More ...
Casting shows are all the rage in Germany. Media experts explain why TV formats like “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (the German equivalent of the British show Pop Idol) and “Germany’s Next Topmodel” are so popular, especially among young people.More ...
