Journalism in a State of Change

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Journalists as Guardians of Human Rights?

“Human Rights and Globalization” – Challenges for the Media” was the theme of the 4th Global Media Forum in Bonn.More ...
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Media Landscape: Concentration on a Highly Concentrated Market

While the German magazine market appears stable, free competing offers on the Internet and the crisis in the advertising industry are making life difficult for other publications.More ...
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Stephan Ruß-Mohl: “Cultural assets don’t come for free”

Waiting to see what the other will do seems to be the rule that the German media industry is following in dealing with the competition from sites on the internet.More ...
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“Weblogs Complement Journalism” – An Interview with Christoph Neuberger

What is the relationship between Internet blogs and conventional media? Do bloggers keep a watchful eye on journalists as a “fifth power”?More ...
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Print and Online: Newspaper Publishers in the Age of Cross-Media

More and more newspaper readers are drifting away to the Internet. Media habits are changing and the market must respond to new reading tendencies.More ...
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Netzwerk Recherche – for more Investigative Journalism

Whenever publishers and TV or radio stations hinder thorough research, wherever journalists are attacked for critical work, this is where colleagues from Netzwerk Recherche step in.More ...
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Post-Journalism

Today whoever wants to cleave to the idea of a critical civic-minded public, must take note of the demise of the press. Newspapers are as similar to each other as are the political parties about which they report.More ...
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Journalists Yesterday and Today: A Long-Term Report

Male, 41 years old, college graduate, nets €2,300/month, works for the press.More ...
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There Is Something in the Air – Free Radio Stations and their Alternative Programmes

Once there were pirates of the airways – idealists broadcasting unconventional and always committed news on the radio.More ...

German Newspapers and Periodicals

From A like architecture to T like theatre

Humboldt: Protest 2.0 “Time for Revollusion”

An arts journal intended to nurture cultural exchange between Germany and Latin America, Spain and Portugal, also available as e-paper.