Infosperber

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Infosperber
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description Swiss internet newspaper
First edition March 21, 2011
Frequency of publication updated daily
Editors-in-chief Christian Müller , Kurt Marti , Jürgmeier , Barbara Jud , Urs P. Gasche
editor Swiss Foundation for the Promotion of Independent Information
Web link www.infosperber.ch

Infosperber is a Swiss internet newspaper . It has been published since March 21, 2011 and is updated daily. The publisher is the non-profit “Swiss Foundation for the Promotion of Independent Information” (SSUI).

Emergence

The newspaper was started by the former TV journalist Urs P. Gasche with a few colleagues with a foundation capital of 150,000 francs. The responsible editorial management consists of Urs P. Gasche, Barbara Jud, Hanspeter Guggenbühl, Kurt Marti, Markus Mugglin, Christian Müller, Monique Ryser, Felix Schindler and Tobias Tscherrig. At the beginning of 2020, regular writers include the journalists Richard Aschinger, Roman Berger, Christa Dettwiler, Synes Ernst, Amalia van Gent, Daniel Goldstein, Hanspeter Guggenbühl, Daniela Gschweng, Erich Gysling, Barbara Marti, Jürg Müller-Muralt, Nick Ramseyer, Helmut Scheben and Andreas Zumach.

content

Under the motto “see what others overlook”, the newspaper has set itself the journalistic objective of supplementing the mainstream and wants to weight it solely according to social or political relevance. The target audience are decision-makers in society, business and politics as well as anyone looking for additional information on the major media. Infosperber does not want to compete with the major information media, but rather to complement them.

In terms of content, the focus is on: fundamental rights, fundamentalism, refugees / migration, debt and financial casino, climate, energy and transport policy, lobbyism, social policy, justice, growth and health policy, conflicts in the Near and Middle East, Ukraine / Russia, new cold war and not finally the concrete media criticism.

Formal

Infosperber went online on March 21, 2011 and has grown continuously since then. In June 2012, the platform reported more than 70,000 visitors who viewed over 350,000 pages. The formal editorial office is in Spiegel (municipality of Köniz ) near Bern , but the members of the editorial board work from home . Infosperber sees itself as a non-profit platform, it pays no article fees.

Infosperber finances itself almost exclusively with donations, so at the beginning of 2020 the proportion of donations was over 90 percent. Journalists of professional age receive wages or modest fees. Retirees write unpaid. All non-editorial tasks such as bookkeeping, marketing, IT support, translations and corrections are carried out by dedicated readers unpaid.

Infosperber grants free usage rights, the further distribution of the texts is permitted free of charge, provided that they are distributed integrally without abbreviation and with references to the source.

The newspaper's newsletter has 15,550 subscribers (as of the end of 2019). There is an app for mobile devices.

reception

For the five-year anniversary in 2016, Die Wochenzeitung wrote that Infosperber had established itself as an important addition to the media mainstream.

The magazine from the Tages-Anzeiger described Infosperber in 2018 as "a forum for old leftists with a weakness for conspiracy theories ."

The Media Week wrote in 2020 that info Sperber find a lot of encouragement in so-called "alternative media" and conspiracy theorists responded after which the editors of Info Sperber.

The Americanist Michael butter classified information Sperber into the alternative media like KenFM , Telepolis , NachDenkSeiten or Rubicon , all of a counter-public to the traditional quality of media and public broadcasting would form. They used conspiracy theories like that of the " lying press " and sold them as serious news.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Fagetti: A portal for opinion leaders. In: The weekly newspaper . No. 10/2016, March 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Infosperber - Independent news and background information on politics, economy and health. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Urs P. Gasche: SSUI Activity Report 2019. Accessed on May 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b FAQ. Can Infosperber assert itself in the market? In: Infosperber. Retrieved January 14, 2018
  5. ↑ About us. Free usage rights. In: Infosperber. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Activity report 2019
  7. ↑ New: Infosperber app for Android, iPad and iPhone. In: Infosperber , April 28, 2016
  8. ↑ Secondo, by foot! In: Das Magazin , August 11, 2018
  9. ↑ Infosperber and the limits of a supplementary medium (Or: How well does “the last gate protect itself from the abyss”? ) In: Medienwoche , May 12, 2020
  10. ↑ The cramped attempt to put Infosperber in a corner. In: Infosperber , May 17, 2020
  11. ↑ Michael Butter: Conspiracy (theory) panik. “Filter Clash” of two publics . In: Heiner Hastedt (ed.): Power of interpretation of diagnoses of the time. Interdisciplinary perspectives . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4592-7 , pp. 197–211, here p. 205 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).