Hans-Dieter Degler

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Hans-Dieter Degler (born March 10, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German journalist and entrepreneur . Since 2001 he has been working on the development of new media for various publishing houses.

Life

After an internship at the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung , Günter Gaus brought him in 1973 as a political editor for the Hamburg news magazine Der Spiegel . There Degler made a name for himself as the author of cover stories and books about the Red Army Faction , the Greens and environmental issues.

In 1986 he started the magazine Tempo together with Markus Peichl , then head of politics at Stern . In 1990 he moved to a development department at Axel Springer Verlag and became editor-in-chief of the Berlin daily Der Morgen . From 1993 he advised the CEO of Axel Springer Verlag, Günter Wille .

Publisher Rudolf Augstein brought him back to the mirror . There he headed several departments and developed the culture magazine Kulturspiegel . He then conceptualized and managed the internet media manager-magazin .de, Spiegel Online and the real-time newspaper ICE-press .

In 2001 Degler left the Spiegel Group as a board member of Spiegelnet AG and founded the media consultancy "Smart Media", which advises publishing houses in Germany and abroad, in 2003 "NOW Medien GmbH", which develops online and print objects, and in 2014 " pocketstory ”, an online platform where individual print texts from German magazines, newspapers and books can be purchased for computers and mobile devices. Degler has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg since July 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. Pocketstory online kiosk sells individual print texts online , Heise online from May 21, 2015