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Ten years of Zeitenspiegel Reportage School
A total of 1,532,422 steps were walked by the twelve students of the 10th grade of the Zeitenspiegel Reporting School Günter Dahl for their final magazine GO. Step counters carried by each student made the exact figure possible, which at the same time refers to the theme of the magazine: it is about walking. About the slowness associated with it, which only makes precise observation possible. A virtue that...
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Journalistic (Nightmare) Land China
Hardly any country could be more grateful for foreign correspondents: economic tales of ascent and political horror stories, natural wonders and environmental scandals, corrupt officials and culinary curiosities. And hardly any country is more ungrateful: uncomfortable New York Times correspondents lose their residency permits. The assistant to Die Zeit correspondent Angela Köckritz, Zhang Miao, disappears into prison and is not allowed to see her lawyer for weeks. The Deutsche Welle journalist…
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Zeitenspiegelschule Goes to West Africa
Once, Ivory Coast was the hope of West Africa, an engine of jobs, an economic miracle. Then came the civil war in 2002. North and south of the country fought each other most bloodily. Now, there has been peace for three years. For now. Elections are scheduled for this October. For his multimedia project „Allez Bouaké!“, the tenth grade of the Zeitenspiegel School of Reporting wanted to know: How is the population of a country between...
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Behind the Lines. A Media Report
Last semester, thirteen female students from the University of Tübingen swapped their desks and lecture halls for notepads and recording devices. The aspiring media scholars spoke with journalists from ARD, Spiegel, stern, Zeit, Süddeutscher, and FAZ, interviewed local newspaper editors and photographers, and conversed with psychologists, economists, lawyers, and whistleblowers. „The result of these excursions is a multifaceted description of real-world journalism, an equally practically oriented..."
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Zeitenspiegler writes book about dementia
People with dementia want to be perceived as human beings. But we “healthy” people cannot bear to watch a loved one slip into oblivion. We therapize, occupy, and medicate so that we don't feel helpless. But does that help the demented? No, quite the opposite. When we sedate the sick with medication, even restrain them, or create a false reality for them...
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Fritz Schaap Nominated for Journalism Award
Zeitenspiegel author Fritz Schaap has been nominated for this year's German Travel Journalism Prize (DJP). He achieved the nomination together with author Kerstin Bund and author Marcus Rohwetter for their article “Das jüngste Gericht” (The Last Judgment), published on April 29, 2015, in “Die Zeit.” The award ceremony will take place on September 30 in Frankfurt am Main.
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Karl Kübel Media Prize for Zeitenspiegel
The report “Menschenskinder,” created by Zeitspiegel's Jan Rübel (text) and Sascha Montag (photos), with the collaboration of Anette Dowideit, has won the Karl Kübel Media Prize in the Print category. The jury in Bensheim, Hesse, awarded the portrait of the Berlin Child Emergency Service (KND) with prize money of 5,000 Euros. The report was published on March 8th…
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China-India Series by Markus Wanzeck
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Gabriel-Grüner Scholarship Awarded in Mals
In Gabriel Grüner's birthplace of Mals, the Gabriel Grüner Scholarship 2015 has been awarded by Zeitenspiegel. It goes to author Martin Theis and photographer Jakob Schnetz. The team is planning a report on the conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been smoldering for years and has flared up again in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. The scholarship is endowed with 6,000 Euros and...
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Film by Carsten Stormer from Burma
Time mirror Carsten Stormer has traveled to northeastern Burma, to the Kachin State. Together with Philipp Abresch, he documented a volunteer organization with a television camera in the war zone: the Free Burma Rangers. These few hundred volunteers uncover human rights violations and help refugees. The report was broadcast on May 31st on ARD's “Weltspiegel” and can be viewed here...
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On the Happiness of the Reporter
„Freedom of the press must be lived if it is to exist,“ said keynote speaker Stephanie Nannen at the awarding of the Hansel-Mieth Prize 2015. „It must be fought for and won – every day. Against politicians and against publishers.“ | Photo: Eric VazzolerThe presentation of the Hansel-Mieth-Prize 2015 in Fellbach.
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Go to Bouaké!
This has never happened before: the collaboration of two journalism schools across two continents. From May 7th to 22nd, journalism students from the Zeitenspiegel Reportageschule in Reutlingen and journalism students from Studio-école Mozaik in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will jointly research and produce articles. They have chosen the former rebel capital Bouaké as their topic: What has changed since the democratic new beginning?...
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