Who counts as a journalist? For most of modern history, the answer seemed almost embarrassingly simple. A journalist worked for a newspaper, a broadcaster or a news agency; editors assigned stories, professional norms governed the work, and audiences knew more or less where journalism ended
In his book “The Art of Defeat,” historian Holger Afflerbach examines the history of surrender and efforts to contain violence in war. But what about the “art of defeat” in present-day conflicts? Mr. Afflerbach, it seems that the art of defeat, which you have described
The following two letters from Professor Karl-Heinz Pohl to the editor of FAZ were both not printed. Mediastudies.asia publishes them here in order to draw attention to the highly one-sided, China-critical reporting in the German media. However, it is worth pointing out Sebastian Conrad’s excellent
In this new episode of our virtual classroom series, students of UIC’s 2021 “Entertainment Journalism” class talk to Bernhard Zand – long time DER SPIEGEL correspondent, linguistic miracle (who effortlessly switches between several languages in a single sentence), passionate jogger, and last but not least:
AK: Markus, how do you explain the resurgence of what is called ‘the lab-leak thesis’ in the Western media, which was already believed to be dead? Politically. And mass media-wise. These are the two factors one needs to look at. And of course one must