Kobuk.at

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Kobuk.at is an Austrian watch blog operated by journalism students and permanent authors since 2010 , founded and published by the blogger and then lecturer at the University of Vienna Helge Fahrnberger as a product of a course. This has been taking place at the Institute for Journalism at FHWien since 2018 .

Kobuk documents errors in reporting, surreptitious advertising, campaign journalism and violations of Austrian media law and the Austrian press code . The regular authors include blogger Hans Kirchmeyr and journalist Yilmaz Gülüm.

The watch bloggers from Kobuk showed, for example, how Kronen Zeitung and ORF used older image material from other countries in their reporting on an animal welfare topic from Ukraine without declaring it. Furthermore, it was shown on Kobuk how an inaccurate story about allegedly 20,000 horses wandering around in Ireland in the course of the financial crisis appeared on Spiegel Online , which was subsequently taken over unchecked by a large number of German-speaking media.

In 2015, Kobuk documented the month-long campaign of the Salzburg edition of the Kronen Zeitung against a change in spatial planning that prevented the further expansion of shopping centers, which, however, was not in the interests of one of the newspaper's largest advertising customers. In 2013, Kobuk made public how a critical article about the Raiffeisen group disappeared within a few hours of the publication of News.at after an intervention by the publishing director . The Raiffeisen group owns shares in the news publishing group. Kobuk also showed how the date of birth of Eva Dichand , the editor of Today , was given in her Wikipedia article with a false résumé that was uploaded to Heute.at and was two years younger than correct.

In May 2017, extensive documentation was published on Kobuk.at showing how Austrian daily newspapers took over the subtle PR images of Federal Chancellor Kern and Foreign Minister Kurz without reflection. Peter Filzmaier wrote about this in the Kronen Zeitung: "The Kobuk media observers show how the advisory teams produce carefully selected pictures of Kurz und Kern that convey heroic stories and are barely recognizable as advertising images for newspaper readers."

Armin Thurnher described Kobuk as an "example of exemplary online education". The WIENER wrote about Kobuk “What their BILDblog is for Germans , KOBUK is for Austrians. A piece of self-organized media control. Because as a reader you can't put up with everything. ”The editor-in-chief of the Salzburg-Krone said, when confronted with criticism from Kobuk:“ I am not at all interested in what the platform Kuckuck or Kukuk or something like that brings. ”

The name Kobuk.at is an homage to Helmut Qualtinger's media prank Kobuk .

Awards

  • 2010 Blog of the Year, FM4
  • 2011 Blog of the Year, FM4
  • 2011 A1 Open Society Award
  • 2014 Journalist of the Year in the "Noticed" category (for Helge Fahrnberger, for the work on Kobuk)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helge Fahrnberger on the founding of Kobuk , February 5, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Falter 40/2010, "The guard dogs of the guard dogs"
  3. ↑ List of authors Kobuk - accessed on August 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Courier: A Ukrainian Dog Coming from Mexico , December 16, 2011, accessed August 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Quality media is an Irish NGO's spin , November 29, 2010, accessed August 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ DerStandard.at/APA: "Krone" campaign against Salzburg for large advertising customers Spar , April 26, 2015, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  7. ^ DiePresse.com: Article critical of Raiffeisen disappeared from "News.at" , June 25, 2013, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  8. ^ "Today": Changed Wikipedia entries on "Austria" - KURIER September 12, 2014
  9. ↑ Kobuk.at: The newspapers are full of photo propaganda by Kurz and Kern , Kobuk.at, May 4, 2017
  10. ↑ Kronen Zeitung, May 21, 2017, page 8
  11. ↑ Falter 8/2011, "The quiet soles of the loud Wolfgang Fellner".
  12. ↑ WIENER 12/2010, "Qualtinger's legacy".
  13. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt / APA: "How the 'Krone' puts pressure on a federal state for the retail giant Spar" ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) April 26, 2015, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  14. ↑ Helge Fahrnberger on founding Kobuk , February 5, 2010, accessed on August 15, 2015.
  15. ↑ fm4.orf.at: Act, Song, Blog, Book, Magazine and Film of the Year 2010 , December 30, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  16. ↑ fm4.orf.at: Exit Poll 2011 , December 28, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2015.
  17. ↑ ots.at: A1 Open Society Awards go to Kobuk.at andawarekaufen.at , January 25, 2012, accessed on May 9, 2018.
  18. ↑ Der Standard / APA: Wehrschütz named "Journalist of the Year" , February 12, 2015, accessed on August 12, 2015.