April 21, 2015 •
Business Models, Media and Politics •
by Wolfgang Blau
Politico Europe – the new Brussels-based site covering European politics – is doing important pioneer work in establishing the notion of there even being such a thing as a ‘European public sphere’. For European...
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November 13, 2014 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
In the digital story “As the Children Wait”, journalists follow homeless boys, living on the streets of St. Louis, Senegal. Video footage, part of an in-depth multi-media presentation, captures the boys begging during the day and...
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September 18, 2014 •
Media Economics, Specialist Journalism •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
German newspapers are attempting to reach international audiences, and increase their readership and influence, by publishing in the English language. Handelsblatt, a leading business daily newspaper, is the latest to start an online...
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August 13, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Michał Kuś, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Adam Szynol
Media barons – media owners who use their newsrooms to exercise political pressure and power – have become more influential in many Central and Eastern European countries. The most recent mega deals in the U.S. and in Germany...
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June 6, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
A German web magazine has set up a new kind of forum to discuss the media, and is offering grants for innovative young journalists to discover new ways of reporting. For more than a decade, German publishers have consistently downgraded...
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May 3, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by Tina Bettels
Media regulators in Germany, Austria and Switzerland believe that they should be independent from the government, but do not necessarily want more interaction with the public, according to a wide ranging study into the attitudes of media...
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March 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Immigration is topically tempestuous in nations the world over. In Germany, however, the subject is debated with near-Olympic rigor as the struggle to etch out a relationship with foreigners proves to be one of great longevity. Strident...
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February 18, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
According to Bernd Kramer, a journalist for the German daily Tageszeitung (taz), university financing isn’t a particularly hot and contentious topic in the German media. Yet in certain unscrupulous cases, the co-mingling of research and...
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January 28, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Anyone who knows about good stories knows that the best ones are seldom the easy ones. That said, the story of Carta has not been an easy one. Carta is a German multi-author blog dedicated to exploring the interface of media, economics and...
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