“Journalism shouldn’t be gatekept”: An interview with Antonia Franz, Süddeutsche Zeitung’s podcast journalist

Antonia Franz is a German journalist focusing on audio content, such as podcasts and radio. She got her journalism training at Deutsche Journalistenschule, as well as doing an exchange period in Finland at the University of Helsinki while studying politics and law in Munich. She has done multiple internships, i.e. at Bayerischer Rundfunk and Süddeutsche Read More

Interview with a South Korean Journalist Myeongwoo Kim

*This interview was conducted in Korean on July 17th, 2024 and then was translated in English.  Hyunjin Yi: Thank you for joining me today. Could you please introduce yourself to our audience? Mr.Kim: Thank you for having me. My name is Myeongwoo Kim, and I am a journalist working for TV Chosun in South Korea. Read More

A Chat with Journalist Bernd-Uwe Gutknecht

Bernd-Uwe Gutknecht, a radio journalist at Munich’s Bayerischer Rundfunk, has forged an incredible career for himself. With over 30 years of experience, Bernd has witnessed and reported on major news events, rubbed shoulders with celebrities and politicians, and travelled to over 100 countries through his work. I was lucky enough to sit down with him Read More

The future of journalism

In this interview with Victoria Ertelthalner-Nikolaev, professor and PhD student at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, we tried to look into the field of journalism and its evolution through the lens of research. What is your academic background and how did it lead you to LMU ? First of all, I started at LMU for my PhD in Read More

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 Past, Present and Future of the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Amongst the whirring sound of the printing press and the thick smell of ink, a sense of order and certainty could be felt. There was a job to be done, a deadline to meet. Anticipation hung in the air. This was the atmosphere of Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung Printery last Thursday evening as it pumped out Read More

Süddeutsche Zeitung: Maintenance of Circulation in Modern Media

In a time characterized by shifting patterns of media consumption,Michael Stengl, the sales consultant of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) demonstrated to us a prime example of maintaining its circulation. Through a combination of reader-centric strategies, digital adaptation, collaborative partnerships, and a firm dedication to journalistic principles, SZ has not only sustained tis readership but also Read More

Media School Bayern: A Surprisingly Leafy Tree

The road towards the media school Bayern was covered by leafy trees. It was a sunny, quiet Thursday morning. The sunlight poured through the gaps in the leaves and shone down on us, a group of future journalists. Firstly surprised by the far location, I then revelled in the greenery. aaaa Andre Wengenroth, the creative Read More

Journalists should reflect the population

It is important that there are different types of journalists in the world, so that it is not only one viewpoint that is shown in the media. At the Danish School of Media and Journalism it is mainly the same type of journalist student they educate. But at the Mediaschool Bayern in Ismaning they might Read More

Making News: Mia’ story of being a journalist

Author’s words: November 8 is Journalists’ Day in China. This is an appropriate time to explore a journalist’s career. Mia is my undergraduate classmate, we spent four years together at FDU. It has been a long time since we graduated. I took the opportunity of this interview to catch up with her current situation. I Read More