My last 2 field trips

Hello les bloggers, On Tuesday May 13, I had the chance to take part in a field trip with my class. So I was able to discover the offices of the Münchner Merkur/TZ newspaper. At first, I thought that newspapers would soon disappear because young people read less and less newspapers but the lady who Read More

What about the role of the Suddeutsche Zeitung

Hello les bloggers, Last Tuesday, my class and I hosted Felix Haselsteiner, a sport journalist from Süddeutsche Zeitung. It was a really interesting moment, he answered all our questions about journalism and his possible future. The Süddeutsche Zeitung is a private media and one of the most important daily newspaper of Germany. The Süddeutsche Zeitung Read More

Mediaschool Bayern: Fostering Media Education and Pluralism

By Sangnan Hua In an era where media literacy and diverse journalism are vital for a healthy democracy, Mediaschool Bayern has emerged as a unique institution in Germany’s media landscape. Founded in Bavaria as a non-profit training organization, Mediaschool Bayern operates non-commercial radio and television channels that serve as live laboratories for aspiring media makers. Read More

ARD: Why Do Public Broadcasters Exist?

ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Association of Public Broadcasters in Germany) is a broadcasting consortium made up of nine regional broadcasters and one global channel(ARD, 2024). In everyday life in Germany, we often encounter ARD’s flagship news program “Tagesschau” on social media or U-Bahn displays and “the 8 p.m. edition alone Read More

Bridging information and education: what Media Bayern and the Munich Science Communication Lab teach us

Over the past weeks, I had the opportunity to become familiar with two very different organisations: the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL) and Media Bayern. Both are dedicated to strengthening public knowledge, but in fundamentally different ways: one through science education, the other through media literacy. The MSCL was particularly interesting to me because it challenges the cliché of science Read More

From radio to research

On two warm days in June, we visited two different corners of the German media and communication world.  On June 17th we have visit the Media School M94.5. When I walked in, I immediately felt the relaxed, creative energy of the place. It didn’t feel like a typical media institution, like for example the SZ, where Read More

A Rare opportunity to visit Munich’s Printhouses

Hello! In the past two weeks, I had the opportunity to visit two of Munich’s media institutions – the TZ Merkur Presshouse and the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) Printhouse. Back in Singapore, I have never had the chance to visit such an establishment to learn about how newspapers are printed, hence being able to visit these places during my Read More

Our Media Field Trips: Exploring Munich’s Newspapers

Over the past few weeks, our media class was provided the chance to visit two influential newspaper organisations based in Munich. I was really looking forward to these fieldtrips, as I had never seen the inner workings of a print or press house before. Media and Communications is not my major, more something I chose Read More

A media exploration in Munich——Süddeutsche Zeitung

Tuesday, May 20, 2025, sunny As an international exchange student of the School of Communication and Media Studies at LMU, today’s journey is destined to be extraordinary. Sunlight penetrates the clouds and falls on the S-Bahn track. Not far away, a geometrically cut glass building reflects its luster. This is the headquarters of Suddeutsche Zeitung Read More

A Closer Look at Media in Germany

Over the past two weeks, I had an opportunity to visit two of Germany’s media outlets, TZ Merkur and Süddeutsche Zeitung. This was my first time visiting a news organization in person, and I was excited to discover the media landscape in Germany first-hand.  The first site was TZ Merkur. Here, I learned some interesting Read More

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