Zeitungsverlage setzen wieder stärker auf Rechercheteams und die eigenen Geschichten. Dabei geht es um Marketing, aber vor allem um den guten Ruf. Denn die meinungsbildenden Medien haben in den letzten Jahren Vielfalt und Unabhängigkeit vermissen lassen.
Germany's draft ancillary copyright bill would force news aggregators such as Google News to pay German publishing houses when linking to news items produced by their newspapers, writes Maximilian Ruhenstroth-Bauer.
For 60 years, successive German governments sought a more European Germany; but now, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration wants to reshape Europe's economies in Germany’s image. This would be a disaster: Far from being Europe’s most successful economy – as German officials boast – Germany’s economy is dysfunctional.
On 04 December, the Land of Bavaria’s Labor Tribunal in Munich delivered one of the first rulings on the legal status of online platform workers and deemed them not to hold employee worker status.