CHiLLi.cc
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| description | Online youth magazine |
| publishing company | Association for free and independent media |
| First edition | September 1, 1999 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | János Aladár Fehérváry |
| editor | János Aladár Fehérváry, Helmut Wandl |
| Web link | www.CHiLLi.cc |
CHiLLi.cc - Europe's independent youth website was an independent Austrian online youth magazine. It was statically online from September 1999 to March 2010; Since September 2002 the online editions of the magazine have been published weekly on Tuesdays on the topics of Austrian politics , Europe , world politics , culture , society and sport . In the reporting, special attention was paid to youth issues and niche topics.
The editorial team consisted of around fifty volunteers and worked according to the principle “by young people, for young people”. The “Verein CHiLLi” was founded in 2001 and has been the magazine's media owner ever since. CHiLLi.cc was financed through advertising income, content sales, membership fees and donations. CHiLLi.cc are edited by János Aladár Fehérváry and Helmut Wandl. In May 2008 , the CHiLLi.cc editorial team was awarded the title of best youth online editorial team by the European Parliament as part of the European youth press competition.
On September 2, 2008, a press release and interview for the Austrian youth culture radio station FM4 announced that Fehérváry's editorial CHiLLi.cc operations were being suspended. CHiLLi.cc was advertised for sale. From October 7th, 2008, CHiLLi.cc went online again in close cooperation with the press , thus averting the sale. In March 2010 the successor portal mokant.at went online.
distribution
According to the self-presentation of the magazine and its marketer Uniwerbung , CHiLLi.cc had around 65,000 readers (' Unique Clients ') per month, 670,000 clicks (' Page Impressions ') and 12,000 members (' Unique Users ') in the CHiLLi.cc community . CHiLLi.cc was published on Tuesdays, 52 times a year.
To promote national reporting, the editorial office in Vienna was expanded in April 2007 by an editorial office in Innsbruck (western editorial office). At the beginning of 2008 the work of an editorial office in Graz started .
Content and editorial policy
CHiLLi.cc described its editorial line as socially liberal . The magazine was aimed primarily at young readers and wanted to promote the extracurricular and extra-university development of young people. In its reporting, CHiLLi.cc paid special attention to youth organizations and youth culture . It described itself as independent of political parties, institutions and interest groups, but according to its editorial policy and editorial statute, it would like to campaign against racism , sexism and populism .
In addition to reporting in the departments Austria, Europe, World, Culture, Society and Sport, comments and glosses by the editors appeared weekly. Guest comments, written by topic-specific experts, such as scientists and politicians, also appeared regularly on CHiLLi.cc.
CHiLLi.cc saw itself as a second newspaper. The weekly publication of the magazine and the concentration on youth-related niche topics should represent an extension to the rest of the media landscape in Austria .
history
CHiLLi was founded on August 7, 1999 by journalists Fehérváry and Erich Nuler at a first planning and editing meeting. The aim was to publish a print product by the end of 1999. In the founding years 1999 and 2000, the journalist Thomas Rottenberg was a consultant for the CHiLLi editorial team.
Financing the print magazine turned out to be difficult because the advertising market collapsed. The advertising budgets for the youth sector have been cut across Austria. Due to the lack of financial capital for the foundation, there were initial difficulties.
On September 1 , 1999, the initially static website of the print magazine was launched under the name “CHiLLi pur” and the URL www.chilli.cc . From November 1999 dynamic, daily updated content was offered on "CHiLLi pur".
On December 20, 1999, the first CHiLLi print product appears with a circulation of 65,000. There were contracts for support and financing with the SPÖ Vienna and several Austrian banks. The financing partners contractually guaranteed in particular editorial freedom and journalistically independent work.
In 2001 the CHiLLi association was founded and, at the same time, a clear demarcation from the Viennese SPÖ. "CHiLLi - Association for Free and Independent Media Work" became the new media owner and publisher of the print product. The founders and financiers of the “Verein CHiLLi” were the young people Fehérváry, Holubarz and Wandl. The “Verein CHiLLi” had to buy the domains www.chilli.cc and www.chilli.at from the SPÖ for 50,000 schillings (the equivalent of 3,622.64 euros ) so that CHiLLi.cc can publish journalistically independently on the web.
In May 2001 the first and last print edition was published by the CHiLLi association. Since the interest of former employees and readers in the continued existence of CHiLLi was still great, it was redesigned as a weekly online product. At that time it was financed mainly through membership fees from the association members Fehérváry and Robert Holubarz through donations and investment of private capital.
The weekly production on www.CHiLLi.cc started on September 1, 2002. The editorial team consisted of around fifteen editorial staff. The editorial office was located in a basement office in a community building on Pfeilgasse in Josefstadt . In the following years, around sixty editorial staff worked at CHiLLi.cc.
At the end of 2004, CHiLLi set itself the goal of acting as a press agency for young people and concentrated on the publication of “CHiLLi.cc - Austria's independent youth website”.
"CHiLLi.cc does cabaret" in 2005: The culture journalist Michaela Fabian starts intensive cabaret reporting on CHiLLi.cc/kabaret with the aim of enabling and thereby promoting young cabaret artists. In return, Austrian cabaret artists go on stage. The cabaret artists Josef Hader , Pepi Hopf , I Stangl , Fredi Jirkal , Leo Lukas , Gerold Rudle , Thomas Stipsits and Mike Supancic performed under the motto “CHiLLi.cc makes cabaret” .
A graphic relaunch of the site took place in May 2005.
May, June 2006: The CHiLLi.cc readers were able to vote for their “youth chancellor” as part of the CHiLLi.cc initiative “Austria elects the youth chancellor”. Georg Hanschitz , who is close to the ÖVP, was chosen online . The then Austrian youth minister Ursula Haubner ( BZÖ ) refused the support she had originally promised to support this project. The project “Austria elects the youth chancellor” was politically unsuccessful.
Founding of the CHiLLi.cc western editorial office in Innsbruck to promote reporting from western Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy ( South Tyrol ) in April 2007. The founder and head of the CHiLLi.cc western editorial office is Stefan Hohenwarter .
In January 2008, CHiLLi.cc started to set up an editorial office in Graz .
Redesign of CHiLLi.cc on June 3, 2008. CHiLLi.cc renaming from “Austria's independent youth website” to “Europe's independent youth website”.
From March to August 2008 the association CHiLLi and CHiLLi.cc entered into a strategic cooperation with the marketing service company Cycamp GmbH ( Uniwerbung ) with the aim of merging CHiLLi with Cycamp. In March 2008, the CHiLLi association and the CHiLLi.cc editorial team moved from Pfeilgasse to the Cycamp office in Universitätsstrasse on Alsergrund as part of this cooperation . At the end of August 2008, however, the final merger negotiations between the CHiLLi association and Cycamp GmbH failed. The strategic cooperation CHiLLi – cycamp was thus dissolved on August 31, 2008.
As a result of this, the lack of necessary investment capital, the CHiLLi.cc creators lacked long-term entrepreneurial and journalistic perspectives: The CHiLLi association ceased editorial operations for CHiLLi.cc at the end of August. This end of CHiLLi.cc was announced on September 2nd, 2008 and caused media coverage in Austria. The values around CHiLLi.cc have been for sale since September 2nd, 2008. According to an interview with the CHiLLi.cc publisher Fehérváry in the weekly newspaper Die Furche published on September 11, 2008, there were offers from two larger domestic publishing houses. According to Fehérváry, the resumption of editorial CHiLLi.cc publication from October 2008 in cooperation with a large Austrian quality media company.
At the end of September 2008, CHiLLi.cc was saved due to a cooperation with the press . From October 7, 2008, CHiLLi.cc was published weekly again.
At the end of 2009, the cooperation with the press was terminated. The association was re-established without János Aladár Fehérváry and started the new online portal mokant.at on March 18, 2010 .
literature
- CHiLLi - Association for Free and Independent Media , ZVR number: 398173703.
- CHiLLi.cc must not die! In: Today , September 5, 2008, p. 23.
- Youth without a newspaper. In: Falter , 37/2008, September 10, 2008, p. 24.
- It doesn't go any further. In: Die Furche , 37/2008, September 11, 2008, p. 17
- Chilli.cc goes online again. In: Today , September 30, 2008, p. 19.
- The second life of Chilli.cc. In: Die Presse , October 1, 2008, p. 42.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Youth press competition of the European Parliament . ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 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. Austrian Information Office of the European Parliament
- ^ Off for CHiLLi.cc . OTS broadcast from CHiLLi.cc
- ↑ Robert Glashuettner: Fehervary on FM4 over the CHiLLi.cc off . ( 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. FM4
- ↑ Online youth magazine Chilli.cc is saved . Newsroom.de, September 30, 2008.
- ↑ We want to be the APA for young people ( 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. fm5.at interview with János Aladár Fehérváry
- ↑ Cabaret reporting on CHiLLi.cc in 2005. ( 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. CHiLLi.cc/ cabaret
- ^ Project "Austria elects the youth chancellor" on CHiLLi.cc . ( 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. CHiLLi.cc/jugendkanzler
- ↑ Youth Chancellor Site by Georg Hanschitz. ( Memento of the original of July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Election of the youth chancellor in 2006
- ↑ Online youth magazine "ChiLLi.cc" is discontinued . derStandard.at , September 2, 2008.
- ↑ Free media - uncertain future . derStandard.at, autumn 2008.
- ↑ New start for the online youth magazine “Chilli.cc” . ( Memento of October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) DiePresse.com , September 30, 2008.
- ↑ Message for readers . ( 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. Chilli.cc, October 7, 2008.
- ↑ CHiLLi.cc becomes mokant.at . derStandard.at, March 2010.
