Michael Maier (journalist)

Michael Maier (* 21st March 1958 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian journalist and IT - entrepreneurs founded, the more journalistic Internet platforms.

Life

Michael Maier spent his youth in Radenthein and completed his Matura in 1976 at the Federal High School in Spittal an der Drau . He served as a one-year volunteer hunter in the armed forces . After studying law and church music from 1977 to 1983 at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , he took on the position of Secretary General of the Catholic Action in Carinthia from 1983 to 1988 . Among other things, he conducted research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the subject of anti-Semitism in the GDR media . He lives in Berlin . In 2007 Maier was a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School .

Activities until 2006

From 1988 to 1993 he was editor-in-chief of the Kärntner Kirchenzeitung . In April 1993 he became head of the service department and head of the media department, and later editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung Die Presse . Later he was editor-in-chief of the Berliner Zeitung (1996-1998) and the magazine Stern (1999), which he left after a few months.

In the summer of 2000 Michael Maier was appointed editor-in-chief of the Netzeitung , which was founded in the spring of the same year , and since March 2003 he has also been managing director and owner of the newspaper. From January to December 2006 he was also head of Orkla Media Germany, a subsidiary of the Norwegian media group of the same name.

Blogform company

In December 2006 Maier left the Netzeitung and founded his company Blogform Verlags GmbH, later BF Blogform Social Media GmbH, which operates several online media with him as publisher: since 2006 the Readers Edition, based on it since December 2010 the German Turkish News ( DTN), since April 2011 the Deutsche MittelstandsNachrichten (DMN) and later the German Russian News (DRN). Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) followed in March 2012 . The domain of the DRN forwarded directly to the website of the DTN in early March 2015. The pages are financed through advertising and content marketing (customer portals with their own content). Advertisers include companies such as IBM , Microsoft and BMW .

Readers Edition

The Readers Edition, a platform for citizen journalism that previously belonged to the Netzeitung , was the first online platform of Maier's Blogform company. Everyone was given the opportunity to publish their own stories, reports and photos from areas such as politics, sport, technology, film, music, etc. The aim was to offer unlimited web space without editorial filtering. Only the journalistic principles of the press code should be followed and the company kept the moderation open. The last article on the platform appeared in mid-2013. The Readers Edition domain now forwards directly to DWN.

German Turkish News

It was first published on the German Turkish News website in December 2010. The editorial team includes German and German-Turkish employees. Due to the founding editor Ercan Karakoyun , there were upheavals with the magazine Der Spiegel until November 2011 .

German middle class news

The website of Deutsche Mittelstandsnachrichten was published for the first time in April 2011. Employees can use the platform to rate structures, working atmosphere and superiors.

German business news

The first article was published in 2011 on the web platform of Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten (DWN), of which he was editor from 2012 to 2019. The online industry service Meedia wrote in August 2012 that the portal had got off to a “lightning start” and was “just a few months after it was founded, popular with audiences and advertisers alike”. Articles are not signed by the actual author, but by a DWN editor. With this, Maier wants to avoid putting the journalists as a person at the center on the one hand, and on the other hand preventing them from being enticed by large publishers. In this Meedia article, the DWN was also accused of a "somewhat alarmist tone".

In February 2015, Bonnier Business Press took over the Swedish media company Bonnier with a 51 percent majority in DWN. Berlin-based Blogform Verlags Gesellschaft holds 49 percent .

The TV magazine Elektrischer Reporter presented DWN in its own article in April 2014 as an example of a new type of online media, the main products of which, according to presenter Mario Sixtus, are "unfortunately often volume, excitement and questionable facts". In the article, journalism researcher Stephan Weichert described provocation as the basic concept of DWN, which in this way would primarily spread a political stance directed against the European Union . In 2014, Markus Beckedahl characterized DWN on netzpolitik.org as " Kopp-Verlag for 'something with business'" and "media hysteria as a business model",

Berlin newspaper

As of November 1, 2019, it was announced that Maier will take over the new management of Berliner Verlag as the new publisher of Berliner Zeitung and chairman of the management of Berliner Verlag.

Fonts

• with Janko Ferk : The Geography of Man. Conversations with Peter Handke , Reiner Kunze , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Leonardo Boff . Edition Atelier , Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-900379-79-3 .
• The first days of the future. How we can change our thinking with the internet and save the world . Pendo , Munich / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86612-171-3 .
• The pillage of the world. How the financial elites plan our expropriation . Finanzbuch , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89879-853-2 .
• The end of comfort. How modern wars are changing Germany and Europe . Finanzbuch , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-89879-941-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Maier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carolin Ströbele: "Man and machine will merge". In: Zeit Online , September 15, 2008. (Interview with Michael Maier)
• Ronnie Grob: "The homepage has become irrelevant" . Medienwoche.ch, August 24, 2012. (Interview with Michael Maier)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Germany and the Land of Israel. A cultural encounter. . Magnes Books, December 2003
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Christian Meier: The business model of the DTN publisher , Meedia, August 24, 2012; first published on medienwoche.ch .
3. ↑ Shorenstein Center Spring Fellows 2007
4. ^ Michael Maier: Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature? Retrieved August 28, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Switch to Berlin format  ( 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. . University of Graz, 1999  
6. ↑ Comparison before the regional labor court: Ex- "Stern" boss Maier and G + J agree. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 2nd, 1999.
7. ↑ See web link Man and machine will merge and The future was yesterday , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , July 4, 2004
8. ↑ New editor-in-chief of the Netzeitung (archived) . ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Netzeitung , December 19, 2006.
9. ↑ Michael Maier: Global stupidity or progress ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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. , SWR2 Wissen, accessed on January 1, 2014 
10. ↑ www.deutsch-russische-nachrichten.de ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2014 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. , accessed March 4, 2015. 
11. ↑ Ideas for Böblingen - and the surrounding area (April 2007 - October 2011): Readers Edition - a project (citizen journalism) by Blogform - no advertising , boeblingen.wordpress.com, July 15, 2007.
12. ↑ www.readers-edition.de ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2014 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. . dwn.de. Retrieved July 2, 2016. 
13. ↑ Deutsche Mittelstandsnachrichten: Skilled workers use rating platforms for companies ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , APD Germany, accessed on March 4, 2015.
14. ^ Founder Michael Maier hands over management of Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten. In: turi2. Accessed November 7, 2019 (German). 
15. ↑ Michael Maier disembarks the Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten. Accessed November 7, 2019 (German). 
16. ^ Swedish Bonnier publishing house takes over Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten , Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, February 11, 2015.
17. ^ Bonnier Business Press Enters German Market. Bonnier Business Press acquires majority stake in news site Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten , Bonnier, February 11, 2015
18. ↑ DWN: About us / Imprint . dwn.de. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
19. ↑ Niklas Hofmann: Die Hysterie des Netzjournalismus, TV report in Elektrischer Reporter from April 4, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2015.
20. ↑ Media literacy for beginners: Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten . In: netzpolitik.org , April 10, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2015.
21. ^ On our own behalf: New tour at the Berliner Verlag. November 1, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 (German).