Project Syndicate

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The Project Syndicate is an international non-profit organization based in Prague , which, according to its own information, currently brings together over 430 newspapers and magazines from 150 countries with a total circulation of almost 70 million copies.

purpose

The syndicate annually disseminates hundreds of comments worldwide, written by authoritative journalists, scholars, politicians and political activists. It translates the English texts into the following 13 languages: Arabic , Chinese , German , French , Hindi , Indonesian , Italian , Kazakh , Dutch , Portuguese , Russian , Spanish and Czech . Financially weak newspapers in developing countries receive these services free of charge.

financing

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The syndicate is financed by contributions from its members in the industrialized countries and private donations from foundations, including the Open Society Institute of George Soros . In Germany u. a. the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius the work of the organization.

Members in German-speaking countries

• Germany : Börsen-Zeitung , Financial Times Deutschland (published in December 2012), Germania Plus , Handelsblatt , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Welt and Wirtschaftswoche
• Austria : Börsen-Kurier , Die Presse , the monthly magazine Raison , Der Standard and the English-language newspaper The Vienna Review
• Switzerland : L'Agefi (French), Der Bund , Tages-Anzeiger and Le Temps (French)

Prominent authors

Prominent authors of the syndicate include or were Ban Ki-moon , Ian Buruma , Jimmy Carter , Ralf Dahrendorf , Uffe Ellemann-Jensen , Joschka Fischer , Timothy Garton Ash , Michail Gorbatschow , Václav Havel , Bjørn Lomborg , Dominique Moïsi , Joseph Nye , Chris Patten , Michel Rocard , Nouriel Roubini , Jeffrey Sachs , George Soros , Joseph Stiglitz , Hans-Werner Sinn , Carl Bildt and Julija Tymoschenko .

Web links

• Project Syndicate website

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Member papers . Project Syndicate. June 23, 2012. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
2. ↑ according to own information: Project Syndicate