Addendum (media project)

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description Investigative journalism
language German
First edition 25th September 2017
Frequency of publication constantly
Editor-in-chief Michael Fleischhacker
editor Michael Fleischhacker
executive Director Michael Fleischhacker and Niko Alm
Web link addendum.org

Addendum ( Latin addendum , to be added ' ) was an Austrian media project. It was financed by Dietrich Mateschitz through the Quo Vadis Veritas private foundation ( Latin Quo vadis veritas , 'Where are you going, truth (?)' ) . The first research was published on September 25, 2017. The publisher and editor-in-chief was Michael Fleischhacker . The discontinuation of the platform was announced at the beginning of August 2020.

history

On April 8, 2017 it became known that Mateschitz had set up the Quo Vadis Veritas private foundation to finance a research platform. To which was Quo Vadis Veritas editorial GmbH (QVV) was founded. The managing directors of QVV are Michael Fleischhacker and Niko Alm . Fleischhacker was responsible for setting up the journalistic organization and Alm took over the commercial and organizational management. The founding team also included Anna Schneider (most recently consultant for constitutional law in the NEOS Parliamentary Club), Judith Denkmayr (previously responsible for corporate development and corporate communications agendas at Vice CEE ) and journalist Rainer Fleckl . During the setup, additional journalists and media specialists were hired for QVV, including Alexander Millecker , Andreas Wetz (previously Die Presse ), Christine Grabner (previously ORF ), Georg Renner and Moritz Moser (both previously NZZ.at ) as well as experts for various topics. By mid-July, the team had grown to around 40 employees and the location for the offices was in Vienna - new building .

However, many employees left the project in the first year - including Alexander Millecker and all other former ATV employees except Martin Thür, who only switched to ORF in 2019. At the beginning of August, a “digital mailbox” was set up on the qvv.at website, where whistleblowers and informants can anonymously transmit confidential documents or information. As a result of the work of Quo Vadis Veritas Redaktions GmbH, the Addendum was presented on September 8, 2017. On September 25, 2017, parts of the first project were published on the addendum.org website. In July 2018 it was announced that Stefan Kaltenbrunner would strengthen the editor-in-chief of Quo Vadis Veritas Redaktions GmbH from September 2018, but to switch to Puls 4 in summer 2019 .

Quo Vadis Veritas has also been publishing books under the Edition QVV label since 2018. The first book Kulturkampf im Klassenzimmer - How Islam Changes Schools by Susanne Wiesinger was published on September 10, 2018. The next one will appear in January 2020: Power Struggle in the Ministry . One book is planned per quarter.

In December 2018, the launch of the print product Addendum-Zeitung was announced.

Content

The aim of Addendum is "to use the tools of investigative, journalistic research and data analysis to contribute to a more complete picture of reality" and "to use this reconstructive journalism to help restore a common factual basis for a qualified political debate". After six weeks of topic finding, research, design and preparation on a topic by a research team of up to 10 people, articles and videos are published over a period of several days. On September 25, 2017, parts of the first research project on asylum and migration were published, with research on a different topic being published every week. Addendum will also create 45-minute reports on the projects that will be broadcast on ServusTV on Thursdays at 9:15 p.m. ( In context ). The reports are also available on “Addendum” and the ServusTV media library . Research on current events is also published at irregular intervals.

In November 2017, Addendum announced, together with Neuwal, the voting behavior and the presence or absence of the 183 members of the National Council at the beginning of the XXVI. Legislative period on November 9, 2017 to want to record photographically and statistically. The results are to be published on their website (“Politometer”) on an ongoing basis. Parliament itself does not record the voting behavior of the individual mandataries.

The magazine Faktum started in February 2019, but the discontinuation was announced in June. Michael Fleischhacker said they were too optimistic.

In January 2019, the research platform revealed that the Austrian Post stores alleged party affinities of 2.2 million Austrians in the course of its activity as an address publisher and sells them for election advertising . After it became known, the Austrian data protection authority initiated an investigation against the Post. The Post itself announced that it would delete all information on party affinities from its records. In October 2019, the not legally binding first instance decision of the data protection authority was issued, which imposed an administrative fine of 18 million euros on the Post.

reception

On the day "Addendum" started, Peter Münch expressed his fear in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that Addendum might not be about the mouthpiece of the "angry billionaire" Dietrich Mateschitz rather than factual reporting , and compared it with the right-wing populist US Opinion website Breitbart . After the first two published Addendum projects, Ralf Leonhard stated in the taz that the Süddeutsche Zeitung had made a fool of itself and described Addendum as "neither left nor right, neither boulevard nor made for the intellectuals". Jens Jessen described Addendum in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as an “illusion of objective reporting” that would be used “to denounce the remnants of the bourgeois press” and “ultimately to corrode the bourgeois public from the right”.

Rainer Stadler praised the Addendum in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) . In its first dossier, Addendum pointed to the “paradoxical practice” in Europe of granting refugees a right to asylum, but at the same time doing everything to prevent this right from being exercised. Addendum asked whether Europe was sticking to "an outdated concept". Addendum does not practice "combat journalism", but rather weighs up and collects "a lot of background information": "This is how educational journalism works, which wants to help the public in forming opinions". The Austria correspondent for the NZZ, Meret Baumann, describes the Addendum as a reference work. It reminds them less of a journalistic product, which is what Addendum wanted. The criticism at the start of the platform could not be justified: "Arguments for different points of view are given and soberly weighed, while the journalists hold back in evaluations."

Awards

  • 2018: Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Award in the category online for Rainer Fleckl, Maria Kern, Christoph Hanslik, Johannes Kaiser and Christine Grabner for the project How far does the arm of gambling reach
  • 2018: Journalists' Prize Integration of the Austrian Integration Fund in the category Online for the project Brennpunkt Schule

financing

The media owner of Addendum is Quo Vadis Veritas Redaktions GmbH , whose 100 percent shareholder is the non-profit Quo Vadis Veritas private foundation endowed with one million euros . 99 percent of the founders are Dietrich Mateschitz and one percent is Servus Medien GmbH , a Red Bull Media House GmbH company . According to the statutes, the beneficiary of the foundation is the general public. On August 4, 2020 it was announced that the platform's activities would be discontinued. The goals of the foundation have not been sufficiently achieved.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The website of the QVV project addendum is online. In: horizon. September 25, 2017, archived from the original on September 28, 2017 ; Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  2. Judith Denkmayr: QVV launches first project on addendum.org and ServusTV. In: Quo Vadis Veritas . September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ "Addendum": Mateschitz 'media project has a name. In: The press . September 8, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  4. https://m.dwdl.de/a/78794
  5. ^ The new media project by Dietrich Mateschitz. In: Small newspaper . April 8, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  6. About us ( Memento from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), on qvv.at. Retrieved September 25, 2017
  7. * Quo Vadis Veritas gets Millecker, Renner and Wetz. In: The Standard . May 16, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  8. ^ Accommodation found for Mateschitz 'research project. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . July 21, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  9. Harald Fidler: Whoever “Addendum” is missing again, millions for private broadcasters: Die Etat-Wochenschau. In: derStandard.at . January 15, 2018, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  10. Mateschitz '“Quo Vadis Veritas” opens digital mailboxes for informants. In: Small newspaper. August 3, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  11. Kurier.at editor-in-chief Stefan Kaltenbrunner changes to “Addendum”. In: derStandard.at . July 23, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  12. Kaltenbrunner is already leaving Mateschitz '"Addendum" in the direction of pulse 4. In: derStandard.at . June 13, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  13. Review: Anne-Catherine Simon: Islam in School: “I often think we have lost”. In: diepresse.com. September 9, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  14. ^ Minister Faßmann ends cooperation with ombudswoman Wiesinger. January 19, 2020, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  15. Ralf Hillebrand: sn.at: "Mateschitz platform starts publishing house . Article from September 7, 2018, accessed on September 10, 2018.
  16. ↑ The "Addendum" research platform publishes a newspaper. In: diepresse.com. December 14, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
  17. addendum.org: About Addendum (accessed September 25, 2017)
  18. a b Meret Baumann: Red Bull boss Mateschitz wants to save the truth . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 16, 2017, p. 11 ( Online [accessed February 3, 2018]).
  19. Politometer . Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  20. National Council: Who votes how? . Article of November 13, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2017.
  21. Mateschitz 'Addendum prepares weekly TV magazine for Servus TV. In: derStandard.at . February 8, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  22. Mateschitz '"Addendum" discontinues TV magazine after four months. In: derStandard.at . June 27, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  23. When the Post takes sides - addendum.org. January 7, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  24. Agencies red: Economy: data protection scandal: million fine for post. In: orf.at. October 29, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  25. Peter Münch: New online magazine “Addendum” - “Breitbart” from the Alps? Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 26, 2017, accessed on December 7, 2017 .
  26. Ralf Leonhard: Nothing but the truth. In: The daily newspaper . October 11, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 .
  27. Jens Jessen : The alternative to the “lying press”. Zeit Online , October 16, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 .
  28. ^ Rainer Stadler: Column: Another Samaritan in the media industry. In: NZZ. October 5, 2017. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  29. Caritas and Raiffeisen award the Prälat Leopold Ungar Journalist Prize 2018 . OTS notification dated November 5, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
  30. "Journalists' Prize Integration 2018": Main prize to the Addendum research team . OTS notification dated November 30, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018.
  31. Jürgen Hofer: The heads behind "Quo Vadis Veritas". In: horizon. April 14, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  32. Addendum's activities will be discontinued. In: OTS.at. August 4, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .