kress.de: “Gießener Zeitung”: Lokaler als die Lokalzeitung erlaubt

Posted on 1 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

A free local paper in Germany, the Giessener Zeitung, is launching as a "participatory newspaper" on Wednesday. Users will be able to post their own stories on giessener-zeitung.de.

BusinessWeek: Where Newspapers Are Thriving

Posted on 16 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Germany's papers are doing fine despite the ad flight to the Web. What's their secret?"

Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper

Posted on 5 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Spiegel Online reports that Deutsche Telekom is set to introduce an e-paper device. The 'News4Me' device is to be tested in the autumn. Just one problem: It doesn't have a news content partner yet...

Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper

Posted on 5 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Spiegel Online reports that Deutsche Telekom is set to introduce an e-paper device. The 'News4Me' device is to be tested in the autumn. Just one problem: It doesn't have a news content partner yet...

Spiegel Online: Telekom Accused of Tracking Journalists’ Mobile Phone Signals

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"In addition to rifling through telephone records for a year from 2005 to 2006 to determine the extent of contacts between management and journalists, it now looks as though Telekom was also using mobile phone signals to keep track of their locations."

Spiegel Online: German Corporate Spying Scandal Widens

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."

Reuters: Lufthansa used flight data to plug leak in board

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Lufthansa said it did an analysis of passenger movements in 1999 and 2000 to try to identify who on its 20-member supervisory board was regularly leaking information to [the FT Deutschland]."

AP: Publisher plans printed version of Wikipedia

Posted on 24 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Germany's Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia."

DWDL.de: “Spiegel”: Fusion von Print und Online denkbar

Posted on 11 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Der Spiegel refuses to rule out print-online integration...

Handelsblatt: Brockhaus-Verlag baut Internet-Angebot aus

Posted on 12 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

German encyclopaedia giant Brockhaus is moving out of printed encyclopaedias and is to concentrate on a free online version. The 21st edition is likely to be the past printed edition

BBC News: Germany’s ‘last’ WWI veteran dies

Posted on 26 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"'The German public was within a hair's breadth of never learning of the end of an era,' wrote Der Spiegel, until someone updated his death notice on the internet encyclopaedia site, Wikipedia."

The Lede: A Railroad Rarity: Train Arrives Five Days Early

Posted on 26 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Beijing to Hamburg in 15 days by rail. Biggest snag: the switch between standard-gauge to Russian-gauge at the Chinese-Mongolian and Belarusia-Polish borders.

Innovative German regional news site struggling?

Posted on 11 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Der Westen, the regional newspaper portal site launched last October by Germany’s WAZ group seems to be struggling to attract readers. The site, which pools stories produced by the 800 journalists in the WAZ group’s 90 local newspapers in western Germany, is run by respected blogger Katharina Borchert, and features a number of interesting innovations including, [...]

netzjournalist: Machet auf das Tor! "Zeit" erweitert Online-Archiv um 250.000 Artikel

Posted on 21 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Germany's Die Zeit is expanding its online archives by 250,000 articles dating back to 1946.

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kress.de: “Gießener Zeitung”: Lokaler als die Lokalzeitung erlaubt

BusinessWeek: Where Newspapers Are Thriving

Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper

Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper

Spiegel Online: Telekom Accused of Tracking Journalists’ Mobile Phone Signals

Spiegel Online: German Corporate Spying Scandal Widens

Reuters: Lufthansa used flight data to plug leak in board

AP: Publisher plans printed version of Wikipedia

DWDL.de: “Spiegel”: Fusion von Print und Online denkbar

Handelsblatt: Brockhaus-Verlag baut Internet-Angebot aus

BBC News: Germany’s ‘last’ WWI veteran dies

The Lede: A Railroad Rarity: Train Arrives Five Days Early

Innovative German regional news site struggling?

netzjournalist: Machet auf das Tor! "Zeit" erweitert Online-Archiv um 250.000 Artikel