One Semester, Many Perspectives

It is surprising how quickly a semester can pass. Looking back, my time in Munich feels as though it went by in the blink of an eye. From inspiring field trips and new insights into journalism and media to valuable personal experiences, I was able to take a lot with me. New Perspectives on Media Read More

Beyond the Screen: What Germany Taught Me About Media

In my university lectures, understanding the media landscape always felt so abstract. We spend hours dissecting every small detail of the media we consume, but do we really know what goes on behind the scenes? As someone who creates digital content and consumes so much of the media around me, I was greatly surprised by Read More

Inside Media School Bayern: The Hidden Engine of Munich’s Media Landscape

Hi, and welcome back to Yinuo’s blog! Today, I’ll be sharing my experience visiting Media School Bayern. Stepping into the building for the first time, I was immediately struck by the impressive equipment. It was easy to spend the first hour just marveling at the physical space: the television studios, the professional radio booths, and Read More

Munich, we will definitely see each other again! <3

Looking back on our seminar “Media Institutions in Munich”, I can honestly say that it gave me a much broader understanding of how media systems function in practice. Before coming to Munich, I mainly knew the German media landscape from the outside and from the programs for example on TV, that we also have in Read More

An end to my Munich Chapter

Throughout this course and my exchange semester in Munich, I’ve learned far more than I expected, about the city, about the media, and honestly, about myself. Coming from another continent, I knew things would feel different, but those differences ended up shaping my experience in ways I didn’t anticipate. I joined this class simply wanting Read More

Blog Post 3: Media School Bayern

By: Ignacia Palma For this blogpost I choose to write about the Media Bayern School, because from what I heard about my classmates who went on the field trip and about everything I read about them in their website and social media, I think it is a very interesting organization to understand how the formation Read More

Blog Post 2: Reflection on the visit to Radio LORA Munich

By: Ignacia Palma Before visiting Radio LORA, the truth is I had no idea how a community radio worked. When I heard we were going to meet a community radio station I imagined something really different from what we actually got to know. In chile I have also never visited a radio station, but from Read More

Blog Post 1: Introduction

My name is Ignacia Palma, and I am an exchange student from Chile. It had always been my dream to do an exchange to Germany because I was for 14 years in a German School and they taught us so much about germanys culture and It has always seem interesting to me.I am the eldest Read More

Aurel Samsom – Blogpost 4

From pressure to passion: what Munich taught me about the future of media Before this course, I already knew that I was interested in the media world. I had done an internship in podcasting before, and I could already imagine myself working in a creative media environment later. Still, the visits in Munich made that Read More

Aurel Samsom – Blogpost 3

Learning journalism by doing journalism: Media School Bayern as a working classroom During our visit to Media School Bayern, what stood out most to me was that the organisation did not feel like a traditional school. It felt more like a working newsroom where education and production happen at the same time. Students were not Read More

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