Marvin Oppong

Marvin Oppong (* 1982 in Münster ) is a German journalist .

Life

Oppong began studying law at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2002 , went to the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne for one year in 2004 and then continued at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a focus on international and European law. He has been working as a freelance journalist since 2000 .

One of Oppong's research concerned the WDR Broadcasting Council and the WDR mediagroup . In 2006 he sent the WDR a list of companies and asked which ones the WDR was in business contact with. The aim was to uncover possible connections between Broadcasting Council members and companies. The refusal of the WDR led to a legal dispute, which the broadcaster lost in the third instance before the Federal Administrative Court , whereupon the information had to be given. In 2014, Marvin Oppong received the special media criticism award at the alternative media award for his blog on this matter .

Oppong was a writer on the Carta blog from 2009 to 2010 . In 2014 Oppong, like several other journalists, published a work on the influence of paid contract authors in the German language Wikipedia . The study was circulated in the media, but also criticized in terms of content and method. The press spokesman for Wikimedia Deutschland eV confirmed to the magazine Cicero that there were attempts to introduce covert PR into Wikipedia, but criticized that there were already "existing projects" within Wikipedia for nine of the ten proposed solutions by Oppong.

→ Main article : "Paid writing" in the article Criticism of Wikipedia

Publications (selection)

author

• As an aside - does the presumption of innocence apply to the fight against terrorism? In: RuP . 2007, p. 175 (PDF)
• Do we need a European criminal record? In: GA . 2008, pp. 575-583. (PDF) * The loyal hands of Cologne. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 19, 2008.
• ARD stock exchange woman Anja Kohl also moderates for DAX companies, banks and the nuclear industry. In: Carta . May 21, 2009.
• Freedom of information law and communication culture. Why a journalist is suing WDR - minutes of a test report. In: Johannes Ludwig (Ed.): Can ARD and ZDF still be saved? - Taboo zones in public broadcasting. Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4379-0 , pp. 222-232.
• Stay away from the judiciary - For the prosecutor's office to be independent. In: ZRP . 2009, issue 1, pp. 22-23. (PDF)
• How I once wanted information from the WDR. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 25, 2013.
• Covert PR in Wikipedia - global knowledge in the sights of companies. OBS workbook 76, Otto Brenner Foundation Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISSN  1863-6934 . (Online version as PDF )
• Eternally different: black, German, journalist. JHW Dietz Nachf. , Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-8012-0542-3 .

editor

• Migrants in German Politics. VS Springer , Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17057-2 .

Movies

• A radiant country - Through Germany with the Geiger counter , documentary, D 2019, 74 min.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marvin Oppong in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marvin Oppong's website
• Sabine Pamperrien : The disclosure blogger . In: Friday . June 30, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Administrative Court , decision of May 27, 2013 (acc. 7 B 30.12) ; Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , judgment of February 9, 2012 (acc. 5 A 166/10) ; Christoph Degenhart : Comment on OVG North Rhine-Westphalia, judgment of February 9, 2012 - 5 A 166/10, ZUM , 2012 p. 521; Administrative Court of Cologne , judgment of November 19, 2009 ( acc. 6 K 2032/08 ).
2. ↑ Winner 2014 , website of the Alternative Media Prize. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
3. ↑ Hidden PR in Wikipedia - The world knowledge in the sights of companies . In: Otto Brenner Foundation (Ed.): OBS workbook 76 . 2014.
4. ↑ Falsified knowledge - journalist demands more transparency on Wikipedia . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . ( deutschlandradiokultur.de [accessed on February 8, 2017]).
5. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: INTERNET: Covert PR at Wikipedia - DER SPIEGEL 3/2014. Retrieved February 8, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Study by the Otto Brenner Foundation: Hidden PR in Wikipedia . In: LobbyControl . ( lobbycontrol.de [accessed on February 8, 2017]).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Wikipedia - The Tool of the Spin Doctors . In: Cicero Online . ( cicero.de [accessed on February 8, 2017]).
8. ^ Leonhard Dobusch : Study by the Otto Brenner Foundation: "Hidden PR in Wikipedia". In: netzpolitik.org . January 14, 2014, accessed February 6, 2017 . 
9. ↑ “Hidden PR in Wikipedia” - the study in the fact check. In: Wiki-Watch-Blog. February 14, 2014, accessed February 8, 2017 . 
10. ^ Reinhard Lüke: A radiant country , film service