Waste paper (media column)

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The waste paper is a German-language media column . It has been published on the Internet every weekday morning since 2000 with small breaks between December 2008 and March 2009, between March and May 2010 and August 2017. Since September 11, 2017, it has been published Monday to Friday on Medien360G , the portal of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) for media topics . The column comments on the most important media journalistic and media critical articles of the day. As a journalistic hypertext blog, it links all articles from newspapers and online media that are freely available on the Internet.

history

The first waste paper appeared on November 8, 2000 at the start of the Netzeitung , which saw itself as the first German daily newspaper to appear exclusively on the Internet. Since the Netzeitung was converted into an automated news portal without editorial staff at the end of 2009, the first waste paper is no longer available online. The previously produced waste paper from November 6, 2000 is preserved, which appeared on November 8, 2000, but at that time already in the "waste paper container" for old waste paper columns.

After several changes of ownership in 2007, the network came into the possession of the British Mecom Group. Its boss, David Montgomery, was the first active financial investor on the German media market, and was often a topic of waste paper afterwards. In the course of more and more savings measures by the Mecom Group, the Netzeitung had to discontinue the waste paper at the end of 2008. The last edition of the Netzeitungs appeared on December 22, 2008 as a preview of 2009.

After the hiring there were several interested parties. In March 2009 the waste paper reappeared on dnews.de, the German news portal of the Dutch market leader nu.nl. After this stopover, the column was published from May 2010 to August 2017 at www.evangelisch.de under the umbrella of the community work of Protestant journalism and at www.dasaltpapier.de. The media blog has been published by MEDIEN360G, the MDR's media portal, since September 2017. In 2019, Alexander von Schmettow, head of communications at the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers , criticized the fact that the column's media criticism could not be balanced because the waste paper was financed by broadcasting fees. In a column, René Martens replied that newspaper publishers are no longer used to media criticism because it is less common in their papers.

Authors

Important authors of the waste paper were Christoph Schultheis (2000–2002), the inventor of the format and also one of the two Bildblog founders, as well as Peer Schader (2000–2004), Michael Angele (2002–2006), Katrin Schuster (2008–2010) , Matthias Dell (2004–2014), Henrik Schmitz (2010–2011) and Frank Lübberding (2014–2016).

Christian Bartels (more than 1,500 columns since 2002), Nora Frerichmann (since 2017), Ralf Heimann (since 2016), René Martens (since 2011), Klaus Raab (with one interruption since 2008) and Juliane Wiedemeier (since 2014) are currently writing .

When the waste paper appeared for the 2000th time on December 1, 2006, Hans Leyendecker , the former investigative editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , wrote the anniversary column. For the format's tenth birthday in autumn 2010, guest authors such as Sascha Lobo , Kai Gniffke and Stefan Niggemeier wrote so-called “gift wrapping paper”. In November 2015, “Germany's oldest media watch blog” (evangelisch.de) celebrated its 15th anniversary with a similar campaign.

Awards

In 2002 and 2003, the waste paper was nominated for the Grimme Online Award . In February 2013, the waste paper authoring team, then consisting of Christian Bartels, Matthias Dell, René Martens and Klaus Raab, received the Bert Donnepp ​​Prize for media journalism for 2012 , which the Friends of the Adolf Grimme Prize has been awarding since 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: New home for the "waste paper" . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 3, 2017, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  2. ↑ mdr.de: Media column: Das Altpapier | MDR.DE. Retrieved on August 20, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ netzeitung.de ( Memento from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Bye-bye waste paper Tagesspiegel from December 15, 2008
  5. ↑ Preview of the year 2009 ( Memento from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ "The waste paper is back" Tagesspiegel from March 20, 2009
  7. ↑ This Is Not The End. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ www.dasaltpapier.de
  9. ↑ Media blog: The waste paper comes under the MDR . In: https://www.horizont.net/ . ( horizont.net [accessed August 20, 2018]).
  10. ↑ mdr.de: The waste paper on July 30, 2019: The mirror and its prestige | MDR.DE. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Christian Bartels' Vita
  12. ↑ Juliane Wiedemeier | Journalist. Retrieved on August 20, 2018 (German).
  13. ^ Anniversary edition 2006 ( Memento from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Sascha Lobos waste paper
  15. ↑ Stefan Niggemeiers waste paper