Field Trip 2: Media School Bayern – Educating the Next Generation of Media Professionals

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. As part of our Media Institutions in Munich course at LMU, I once again had the opportunity to visit Media School Bayern. Some readers may remember that I already wrote about this organization during my first semester in Munich, when I visited it as part of the Professional Read More

Field Trip 1: Radio LORA – Community Radio, Limited Budget, Unlimited Voices

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another blog post from my seminar Media Institutions in Munich. This time, we visited Radio LORA, one of Bavaria’s two community radio stations. After exploring several large and well-funded media organizations last semester, this visit offered a completely different perspective on what media production can look like. In this Read More

Journalism as a Public Service: Final reflections on my Professional Communication course

Hey everyone! As this semester is slowly coming to an end, I thought it would be a good moment to look back on what I have learned in my Professional Communication course at LMU Munich. This class was not just about writing a few blog posts. For me, it became a real introduction into the Read More

Field Trip 4: Media School Bayern – Learning by doing

Hey guys, welcome back to my blog. I am here again with a short story about our latest field trip from my Professional Communication course. In this course at LMU, we have already visited several media institutions, but this field trip felt exciting from the very beginning. Our visit to Media School Bayern in Munich Read More

My Journey through Germany’s Media Landscape

Journalism plays a vital role in promoting transparency, civic engagement, and accountability. Before joining the media institutions class, that was about all I knew about journalism. However, through my research, fieldtrips and presentations made in class, I have gained a comprehensive understanding of the rapidly evolving German media landscape.  Journalism informs the public, exposes injustice, Read More

Reflection on Media Fieldtrips

Over the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to visit two of Munich’s key media organizations: the TZ and Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). These visits provided insights into the world of journalism and the history, evolution and ongoing challenges faced by media in modern German society. The first visit was to TZ. One of the Read More

Introducing me…

My name is Chisomaga Anyanwu; Agah to my dad, Chisom or Aga to my friends, Somaga to my mum and siblings. I was born in Ireland but lived in Nigeria for the most part of my life. Ireland is a beautiful country especially the outskirts and the West of Ireland. Although the language is not Read More