Media in Germany

The average journalist is male, just under 41-years-old, middle class, in a steady relationship, without children. He has a university degree, completed practical training as a journalist. The average journalist works in the print media.More ...

“Today I am addressing you in a completely new way: with a video podcast. New technologies are not just fascinating for young people, I enjoy them as well.” This is how German chancellor Angela Merkel greeted the internet community in the first episode of her video podcast in June 2006.More ...

Developments in the so-called Web 2.0 are influencing journalism in Germany on all three levels of production: how journalists obtain information, how they process it and how they disseminate it.More ...