EUobserver

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EUobserver
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Making sense of the EU
Online magazine on EU issues
languages English
operator EUobserver.com ASBL ( Non-Profit )
editorial staff Lisbeth Kirk (Founder),
Eric Maurice (Editor-in-Chief)
user 60,000 (readers)
Registration partly free, subscription and newsletter with registration
On-line 2000 (currently active)
https://euobserver.com/

The EUobserver is an independent, English-language online newspaper based in Brussels that reports on political events in the European Union .

history

The EUobserver was founded in 2000. In 2003, a temporary agreement was made to post public comments and summaries on Wikipedia's news sites. In 2008 the website was expanded to include videos and blogs. In 2010 there was a temporary cooperation with the WAZ for news from Southeast Europe .

The Open Society Foundations honored the work of the medium in 2014 with a project grant.

Self-image and profile

The EUobserver had the motto “Making sense of the EU” , in German something like “Rhyme the EU together” , but also in a broader sense “Filling the EU with meaning”. This should be implemented through one's own claim to free thinking and clear language. The aim is to strengthen European democracy by providing readers with the information they need to hold the establishment accountable.

One would like to implement one's own goal of high quality journalism in a team of experienced journalists by means of daily news from Brussels, the power center of the EU. You are financially as well as editorially independent of the institutions of the European Union . The reporting has a clear focus on human rights , transparency , the fight against corruption , environmental protection and the democratization of the European Union.

The EUobserver is committed to the Munich Declaration of the Duties and Rights of Journalists and reserves the right to reject any submitted content that does not meet this standard.

Organization and business model

The Danish Lisbeth Kirk is the founder, journalist and strategic manager of the EUobserver. Since 1986 she has been married to the Danish politician Jens-Peter Bonde . The editor-in-chief has been the Frenchman Eric Maurice since 2016 . As of 2017, the team consists of 11 other employees, some from sales and administration, but mainly journalists.

As a non-profit organization , the EUobserver has a supervisory board under Belgian law as a non-profit making association (French: “ Association sans but lucratif ” for short ASBL). This consists of five members.

Its income comes from a variety of sources of income including advertising and book sales. Large parts of the content as well as the newsletter are available free of charge. Premium content, such as features , interviews , analyzes and studies are sold via subscriptions. Guest articles and comments are also published in other newspapers, and references from the EUobserver can be found in numerous publications on European policy issues. Own books have also been published.

As of 2017, income was made up as follows: donations and foundation 46%, advertising 35%, subscriptions 18%, other 1%. The Adessium Foundation is one of the main sponsors.

Reach and Influence

According to its own information, the EUobserver newsletter was subscribed to by over 500 members of the European Parliament and around 3,000 journalists in 2012 and a total of 33,000 times, the RSS feed had 12,000 subscribers. According to our own statistics, the number of readers of the EUObserver grew from around 30,000 different readers per day in 2007 to more than 60,000 different readers per day and 260,000 every month, 115,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter in 2016.

According to the Financial Times , the EUobserver 2013 was the largest news site on EU politics with 60,000 readers. Its readership and coverage is roughly the same as that of the Financial Times and EurActiv . His reporting was therefore the subject of a scientific comparative media analysis and other specialist publications.

In 2016 Dober Partners published the "EU Media Relations Report" . According to this study, the EUobserver was the second most influential medium about the EU among 80 EU journalists with 16% after the Financial Times with 18% and before EurActiv with 11%.

In the “2016 EU Media Poll” by Burson-Marsteller and ComRes , 22% of the 249 so-called “influencers” (members of the European Parliament, employees in European organizations, journalists) said they read the EUobserver at least once a week. An equally large percentage considered the EUobserver “very influential” or “fairly influential”.

According to other sources, the EUobserver was the second most influential medium on EU affairs for journalists in Brussels in 2014.

In Austria, both the Federal Administrative Court and the Asylum Court often used the EUobserver as a source in their decisions.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Us
  2. ^ Munich Declaration of the Duties and Rights of Journalists (1971)
  3. ↑ About Us ( English ) EUobserver. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  4. ^ "Bondes farvel og tak" , Fyens Stiftstidende , March 27, 2008 (Danish).
  5. ↑ Eric Maurice, Editor-in-Chief, EUObserver ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , European Business Summit (EBS) 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebsummit.eu
  6. ↑ EUobserver.com at: voxeurop.eu
  7. ↑ EUoberserver opinion
  8. ↑ Google Books search for EUobserver
  9. ↑ Jens-Peter Bonde: Nice Treaty - the reader friendly edition . Ed .: EUobserver.com. 2002, ISBN 978-87-87692-77-9 (English).
  10. ↑ Beneficiaries at: adessium.org ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adessium.org
  11. ↑ EUobserver.com Mediakit 2012 ( Memento from September 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Observer readership  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EUobserver, accessed on 2008-05-31@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / euobserver.com  
  13. ↑ EUobserver appoints new editor-in-chief / About EUobserver
  14. ^ European public sphere in the media - an inventory , contact point Germany " Europe for Citizens " of the cultural-political society .
  15. ↑ a b Cristian Nitoiu: The EU Foreign Policy Analysis: Democratic Legitimacy, Media, and Climate Change , S. 78, 80 and 188th
  16. ↑ Peter J. Varga: Pan-European Media: Attempts and Limitations , in: Miklós Sükösd, Karol Jakubowicz (Ed.): Media, Nationalism and European Identities , pp. 119ff.
  17. ↑ http://www.doberpartners.com/eu-media-relations-report.php
  18. ↑ Graphic for the survey of the most influential media about the EU
  19. ↑ Presentation of the results of the "ComRes / Burson-Marsteller 2016 EU Media Poll" .
  20. ↑ Data from the "ComRes / Burson-Marsteller 2016 EU Media Poll" .
  21. ↑ Georgios Terzis and Gareth Harding: Foreign Correspondants in Brussels , in: Georgios Terzis (eds.): Mapping Foreign Correspondance in Europe .
  22. ↑ Query in the legal information system of the Republic of Austria for the keyword "EUobserver".

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