News, music and everything else – Bayerischer Rundfunk

On a sunny Thursday morning our field trip group arrived to the enormous, 19-floor Bayerischer Rundfunk building. BR is the government-funded news company responsible for producing radio and online content for the entirety of Bavaria, with its headquarters employing around 6000 people. Meeting us at the BR building was Bernd-Uwe Gutknecht, a freelance journalist working Read More

The changed and the unchanged: How Bayerischer Rundfunk has adapted to the digital age

Our guided tour of Bayerischer Rundfunk (shortened to BR) started from the history gallery in the BR building, a long grey, silent and dimly lit gallery with the history of BR printed on the walls. 2021, 1991, 1971, 1949, 1945, 1934, 1929…. As we walked along the gallery, the time on the walls kept going Read More