Christian Vogg

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Portrait shot of Dr. Christian Vogg from 2017
Dr. Christian Vogg (2017)

Christian Vogg (born January 13, 1965 in Augsburg ) is a German journalist and media manager . From 1991 to 2012 he worked in various positions at home and abroad for Westdeutscher Rundfunk , was Head of Radio and Music at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) from October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2015 and has been with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since November 1, 2016 Swiss radio and television active as Chief Data Officer and Head of Documentation and Archives .

Origin and education

Christian Vogg grew up in Neusäß and Aichach , where he passed his Abitur at the Deutschherren-Gymnasium in 1984 . He then completed an internship at the Catholic Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) and the Kirchenbote, the church newspaper of the Diocese of Osnabrück , until autumn 1986 . From April 1987 to July 1988 Vogg did his basic military service in the press office of the General Staff of the 1st Corps in Münster . From 1988 to 1993 he studied political science , Islamic studies and ethnology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , including a year abroad (1989 to 1990) to study Arabic at the University of Alexandria in Egypt . Vogg completed his studies in 1993 with a doctorate on the "Greens in Egypt". During his studies he worked as a freelance journalist for radio ffn , Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk , and he also wrote for magazines ( Globo , Geo , Weltbild ) and other newspapers.

Professional career

Church press

After his traineeship, Christian Vogg was editor at the church newspaper of the Hildesheim diocese from October 1986 to March 1987 , where he set up a new regional edition. Then he did his basic military service.

Christian Vogg interviews the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Beirut, 2002
Christian Vogg interviews the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , Beirut , 2002

West German radio

During his studies Vogg worked as a permanent freelancer for radio and television in the WDR regional studio in Münster. In 1994 he moved to Cologne and became an editor, reporter and presenter of political programs at WDR 5 . He reported regularly for the WDR on party congresses and events of the CSU (retreat of the regional group in Wildbad Kreuth , Political Ash Wednesday ) and was a reporter from 1995 to 2005 in several state and federal elections . As a foreign correspondent , he reported in numerous missions between 1996 and 2005 from the ARD's Middle East studio in Amman ( Jordan ) on politics and society in the Arab world ; he reported from Syria , Lebanon , Iraq , Kuwait , Dubai and Palestine ; in addition, he made research trips to Iran , Saudi Arabia and Yemen . In 2005 Christian Vogg was appointed by WDR director Fritz Pleitgen as a consultant in his team and was responsible for the program committee of the Broadcasting Council as well as for the WDR participations until 2007 , was speechwriter for the director and worked on the digital strategy of the station. In April 2007 Vogg took over the editorial management of the WDR Mediathek and together with his team built the first audio and video portal within ARD at the time. As of June 2011, as a metadata coordinator , he developed a company-wide data concept that networked editorial, technology and administration, and initiated the introduction of a unique ID for all publication vectors.

European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Christian Vogg gives a lecture on digital radio at a WorldDAB event in Istanbul.
Christian Vogg gives a lecture on digital radio at a WorldDAB event in Istanbul .
Christian Vogg on the panel "Broadcast and New TV", Medientage Munich, 2017
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In September 2012 Christian Vogg moved to Geneva as Head of Radio and Music for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) . He and his team were responsible for the world's largest music exchange, where up to 3,500 concerts from classical , jazz , rock / pop and folk are exchanged between the EBU members every year . Vogg set up a new video exchange platform (euroradio2see), planned the new construction of the music database and modernized workflows. He and his team managed the contact to the EBU members (69 stations in 56 countries) via 19 specialist groups and he organized the annual general assembly of radio directors, the EBU Radio Assembly. In regular dialogue with the EBU members in Europe, as well as with industry representatives and technical experts, he advocated the strategic further development of radio based on multimedia solutions. One focus was the Europe-wide introduction of DABplus and hybrid radio applications in smartphones and cars ( connected car ). Vogg was also on a diplomatic mission with EBU members to offer the EBU's expertise on strategic issues. Together with the EBU Technical Directorate and the EBU Academy, he developed the Integrated Media Production Strategy ( IMPS) for tri- media newsrooms . He invented “New Radio Day” as an annual exchange meeting for pan-European audio trends from public broadcasters and was a regular guest at national and international media conferences as a keynote speaker on convergent media strategy.

Swiss Radio and Television (SRF)

From October 2015 to October 2016, Christian Vogg returned to Westdeutscher Rundfunk, where he worked, among other things, as head of the online service in the tri-media newsroom in the Funkhaus Düsseldorf .

Christian Vogg at the vfm conference 2019 in Leipzig
Christian Vogg at the vfm conference 2019 in Leipzig

Since November 2016 he has been Head of Documentation and Archives and Chief Data Officer at Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) in Zurich . In addition to optimizing traditional archive services (archiving / indexing, research, digitization), he is responsible for data management for the broadcaster. In his area, he has been building the first team of experts for artificial intelligence since 2018 . The first projects are dedicated to the implementation of speech-to-text services in the workflows of radio, television and archives. With an external partner, he has been developing an algorithm for the transcription of Swiss German dialects since 2019 . Further projects are aimed at more efficient linking of metadata across the entire production workflow, including rights data in particular. Vogg led the development of the SRF metadata roadmap, is the author of SRF Data Governance and is committed to the stringent strategic implementation of all data-driven processes in editorial, technology and administration.

Due to the archival opening required by Swiss law, Vogg and his team are in the process of making large amounts of archive material available to the Swiss public on PLAY SRF. At the same time, his team operates archive channels on Facebook and YouTube . In cooperation with cultural heritage institutions and museums, he works to promote and preserve Switzerland's audiovisual memory. In addition, SRF (like the other SRG channels ) has been providing publishers in German-speaking Switzerland with free archive videos for online use since 2019 , a service for which the Vogg team is responsible.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Smart new media world. An industry in transition. Rotary Magazine, 2015
  • Nice new Digitalistan - and where is the radio? vfm annual conference 2014. Lecture manuscript. in: Anthology "Fokus Medienarchiv II", LIT-Verlag. 2020
  • Digital radio toolkit. EBU, 2014
  • How to find a royal tomb. Archeology for Beginners, 2013
  • Birthday of Jesus of Nazareth. Time signal (radio feature). December 24, 2010. WDR and NDR
  • The Greens in Egypt. The first environmental party in the Arab world, 1995

Private

Christian Vogg is divorced and has two grown daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Vogg: The Egyptian Greens - the first environmental party in the Arab world . 500th edition. agenda-Verlag, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-929440-25-3 , p. 207 .
  2. ↑ Ringier takes Globo off the market. Horizont.net, November 15, 2001, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ WDR media library. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ World DAB homepage. World DAB, the global industry forum for DAB digital radio, accessed on May 19, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ EBU APPOINTS HEADS OF TV, RADIO AND STRATEGY. EBU, July 13, 2012, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ EBU Music Exchange. EBU, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Euroradio2See - Vision for Radio. EBU / Euroradio, July 5, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2020 (English).
  8. ^ MUS Platform - Music Exchange (EBU members only). EBU / Euroradio, accessed on May 19, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ EBU members. EBU, accessed on May 19, 2020 (English).
  10. ^ Radio Committee and Groups. EBU / Euroradio, accessed on May 29, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ 20th Euroradio Assembly. EBU / Euroradio, May 2014, accessed on December 30, 2018 (English).
  12. ↑ Interview with Christian Vogg about the challenges facing public broadcasting. In: YouTube. EBU Knowledge Exchange, September 30, 2012, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Why can't my cell phone watch TV? In: YouTube. Hanns Seidel Foundation, October 8, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Head of Radio at EBU, Dr. Christian Vogg visiting Israel. In: YouTube. Israel Broadcasting Corporation, December 3, 2013, accessed May 19, 2020 (Hebrew, English).
  15. ^ IMPS - Integrated Media Production Strategies. EBU.tech, December 9, 2012, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  16. ^ New Radio Day. EBU / Euroradio, October 2013, accessed on May 19, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ Broadcast and New TV - How Cognitive Services & Co. are changing the use of production and usage concepts by broadcasters. Medientage Munich, October 25, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Materials for the vfm spring conference 2019. Association for media information and media documentation, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  19. ^ SRF organization chart. Swiss radio and television, November 1, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ SRF has been digitizing TV archives since 1953. Swiss Radio and Television, February 1, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Radio and TV Ordinance (Switzerland). In: Art. 33, Para. 2. Swiss Confederation, May 16, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  22. ↑ PLAY SRF (media library). Swiss radio and television, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  23. ^ SRF archive. In: Facebook. Swiss radio and television, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  24. ^ SRF archive. In: YouTube. Swiss radio and television, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Replay: TV and radio documents after broadcast. In: Memoriav Colloquium 2018. Memoriav, October 24, 2018, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Opening of the SRG SSR archives for Swiss media companies via the shared content platform. In: SRGSSR.ch. Swiss Radio and Television Company, June 13, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Grimme Online Award 2008 - winners. Grimme Institute, 2008, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Prize winners. Ernst Schneider Prize, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Previous winners / media award. German Bundestag, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Smart new media world. Rotary Germany, September 1, 2015, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Christian Vogg, among others: Beautiful new Digitalistan - and where is the radio? In: Association for media information and media documentation (ed.): Focus media archive II . 1st edition. tape 9 . LIT, Münster 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-14665-6 , pp. 264 ( lit-verlag.de ).
  32. ↑ Media Intelligence EBU, Radio Unit EBU: Digital Radio Toolkit. European Broadcasting Union, December 2014, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Christian Vogg, Dieter Vieweger: How to find a royal grave - archeology for beginners . 1st edition. Herder, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30308-1 , pp. 160 ( bai-wuppertal.de ).
  34. ↑ Birthday of Jesus of Nazareth. In: Radio Feature. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, December 24, 2010, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogg, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and media manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg