Media Narratives in Contrast

By Ollie Standen Throughout the past two week, the group visited the TZ/Mekur and the SZ media organisations to see how the paper and online media world functioned in Germany. Both papers cover international, national and regional news stories with reports being printed on the daily or updated every minute on their websites. The TZ/Mekur Read More

New Semester, New possibilities

By Ollie Standen (Photo by Ollie Standen) My name is Ollie, I am from a little village in the South East of England called Hildenborough. No one really knows where Hildenborough is so I always say I am South of London. I have been in Munich for two semesters now on an exchange programme thanks Read More

From the regions of Hyde Park to Hamburg: the story of Rob Hyde and his journalistic experiences

by Ollie Standen Born and raised in England, Rob Hyde graduated from London College of Communications before working for a small English-language newspaper called ‘The Vienna Reporter’. After working in London for the BBC’s ‘German Fix’ language learning Channel he returned to Austria to work for ‘Central European News’ in Vienna before becoming a freelance Read More

Stereotypes clouding the beautiful game

by Ollie Standen For the past 21 years, football has been an integral part of my life. Throughout recent years the growth of women’s football has been tremendous, with more participation from grassroots to professional level. The coverage of women’s football has also grown, with major sponsorship deals such as Sky Sports, showing 118 matches Read More

A little boy from Hildenborough, England

What to say about me, that is a question. Hello, my name is Ollie, I am 21 years old, from the small village of Hildenborough, situated in the county of Kent, England. I was born and raised there, until the adventure of turning 18 happened. With secondary school finishing, it unleashed the opportunity to travel, Read More