German Union of Journalists
The German Union of Journalists ( dju ) is the journalists' organization within the German Federation of Trade Unions . It is a professional group within the media section of the United Service Union (ver.di).
Of the almost 22,000 members in Germany , more than two thirds are freelance journalists . The dju belonged to the IG Druck und Papier, founded in 1948, and from 1989 to the IG Medien , which merged with other unions in 2000 to form the United Services Union. The dju is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IJF).
history
Founded in 1951
The organization was founded in 1951 as a specialist group of IG Druck und Papier . Among others , the founding members were August Enderle , Fritz Sänger , Ernst Lemmer , Jakob Kaiser , Heinz Kühn and Willy Brandt . From 1951 onwards, die feder appeared as a membership magazine. August Enderle was elected as the first professional group chairman in 1951 and confirmed at the 1953 federal professional group conference in Stuttgart. His successor was Heinz Kühn in 1957, and Enderle became honorary chairman. At the trade union day in Hanover in November 1959, the editor-in-chief of the trade union monthly , Walter Fabian , replaced Kühn. A well-known member of the federal executive board was Emil Carlebach for ten years . The professional group was given the name Deutsche Journalisten-Union (dju) in 1960. That year the dju got its first managing director. In 1964 Gerd Herda was elected chairman of the Frankfurter Rundschau .
1968 to 1989
It was not until 1968 that the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers recognized the dju as a collective bargaining party ; until then, collective bargaining had only been conducted regionally or in companies. 1970 Eckart Spoo was elected chairman; In 1972 Hans Büttner took over the federal management. In 1977 the first collective bargaining agreement for employee-like journalists in daily newspapers was agreed with the BDZV, which the publishers from Hesse did not join. In 1980, with a strike in which editors at more than a hundred newspapers took part, a general collective agreement was enforced, which for the first time regulated the working hours of permanent journalists in daily newspapers with a 40-hour week on five days; from 1986 the weekly working time was reduced to 38.5 hours in the general collective agreement. Hartmut Schergel, editor of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , succeeded Spoos as chairman in 1986. When the IG Medien was founded in November 1989, the IG Druck und Papier professional group became the dju / SWJV section of the IG Medien.
1990 to 2001
In 1990 the 35-hour week was enforced by collective agreement from 1998; With strikes at 104 daily newspapers, in which more than 15,000 journalists took part, the collective bargaining agreement regulating journalistic training as part of a voluntary service was also achieved. After the dissolution of the Association of Journalists of the GDR in 1990, the dju established specialist groups in the new federal states. In 1991, journalists from the Radio / Film / AV Media (RFAV) section joined the former VDJ members at dju. The dju publication die feder was merged with the magazine HFF - radio, television film of the RFFU in the journal Publizistik & Kunst . At the Federal Specialist Group Conference in Springen in 1992 , Jutta Ditfurth , Wolfgang Mayer and Hans-Otto Wiebus were elected federal chairmen and held the office together. In 1994 the first issue of the trade journal M - Menschenmachen Medien was published . In 1995 the dju again received three federal chairmen with equal rights: Mechtild Kock, Gunter Haake and Carsten Seibold. They held office until November 1997 and were replaced by a provisional federal executive headed by Franziska Hundseder . She became chairwoman in October 1998. In February 2000 the dju accepted the 20,000 member. In 2001 the dju celebrated its 50th anniversary.
2001 to 2015
After Franziska Hundseder, Manfred Protze ( dpa Oldenburg) took over the chairmanship of the dju. In 2004 Malte Hinz (Westfälische Rundschau) was elected chairman. After he left office in 2008, Ulrich Janßen (Nordwest-Zeitung Oldenburg) replaced him after an election in the federal board. Ulrich Janßen was also chairman in 2011 and re-elected in 2015. He died on the night of March 31, 2017.
Current
At their federal conference on February 8, 2019 in Berlin, the delegates elected ZEIT-Online editor Tina Groll (Berlin) as chairperson. Your deputies are Peter Freitag, editor Rheinische Redaktionsgemeinschaft (RRG) from Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and Kölnische Rundschau and member of the works council of RRG, and Lars Hansen, freelance journalist from Hamburg. Cornelia Berger has been Federal Managing Director since November 2011. She followed Ulrike Maercks-Franzen.
dju in the media department
On March 3rd and 4th, 2007 the new media department was founded in ver.di. It consists of the members of the previous specialist groups for broadcasting, film and audiovisual media (RFAV) and the German Union of Journalists. As an independent professional group in the media department, the dju represents the professional-political and ethical interests of journalists from all media. Werner Ach (ZDF) was elected chairman of the new media section. In 2011 his election was confirmed. On February 21 and 22, 2015, Manfred Kloiber (freelance journalist, Deutschlandfunk) was elected as the new chairman of the 3rd Federal Conference of the Media Section in Berlin , and he was confirmed in this position on February 9, 2019.
The union has regional specialist groups with independent offices for Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin / Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony / Bremen, Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar and Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt /Thuringia.
Publications
In addition to the trade journal M - Menschenmachen Medien , the association issues a number of publications. This includes brochures such as the Volo guide on training paths in journalism or the series "Journalism in concrete terms".
Services and costs
The union offers the following services:
- Advocacy
- Information through brochures, flyers and the Internet
- Professional advice, especially for the self-employed
- Legal protection
- Press pass
- Subscription to the magazine M - Menschen macht Medien
- Events such as Journalists 'Day (annually since 1986) and Photographers' Day (since 2006)
- Seminars for works councils
- Further training for journalists (in cooperation with the journalist academy )
- Discounted insurance
The membership fee is 1% of the gross income (if the operating profit is free), with a gross monthly salary of EUR 3,500, for example EUR 420 per year.
Charter to ensure quality in journalism
The dju is committed to quality in journalism . In 2003 it passed The Charter for Quality Assurance in Journalism . At the federal conference in 2007 it was supplemented by passages that emphasize the incompatibility of journalistic and secret service activities and call for a separation between journalistic reporting and public relations.
In addition, the German Union of Journalists is a co-signatory of the joint declaration of the AK reserve on the draft law on data retention .
Demo watch
After attacks on journalists during demonstrations and public events increased with the growth of the PEGIDA movement and xenophobic gatherings, the dju founded the Demo-Watch project. Journalists who want to make an incident public and need support can register in a WhatsApp group. The forum should also make regional networking possible. If necessary, the dju will then organize security training for media work in so-called large locations .
See also
Web links
- dju.verdi.de - official website
- dju-campus.de DJU-Campus: For students and young journalists
- www.mediafon.net Independent advice from ver.di / dju
Individual evidence
- ↑ dju: Journalists in the union - why actually? 2001, accessed March 20, 2019 .
- ^ Dju in ver.di: Farewell to Ulrich Janßen
- ↑ dju: The Federal Executive. February 8, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019 .
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- ↑ mediafon
- ↑ Charter for ensuring quality in journalism ( 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.
- ↑ 50 years of unionized journalists ( 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. (PDF file)
