New German media makers

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New German Media
Makers (NdM)
legal form non-profit registered association
founding 2008
Seat Berlin
purpose Promoting cultural diversity through ethnic plurality in the media
Chair Sheila Mysorekar, Ferda Ataman
Managing directors Konstantina Vassiliou-Enz
Website www.neuemedienmacher.de

New German Media Makers (NdM, also known as New German Media Makers, pronunciation with glottal stroke ) is a non-governmental organization and nationwide association of media workers with and without a history of migration.

aims

The main goal of the association is to give the diversity and diversity of society as well as Germany, a country of immigration, an adequate voice and to make this more visible in media reporting . According to estimates from 2013, around 20% of the population have a migration background ; for journalists, this proportion was only an estimated 4% at the time. The network is an independent, cross-national and cross-denominational association of media professionals. Its members are represented in all German media forms ( print , TV , radio , online), both regionally and nationally.

history

The association was founded at the beginning of 2008. At the beginning of 2014, according to the association, the number of members is given as more than 160 association members and 670 network members. According to the homepage, the number of network members in 2018 was 1,250. The founding caused a sensation in the German media. a. the FAZ , the daily newspaper and the Frankfurter Rundschau extensive reports.

structure

The assessors are

The association's managing director is the former vice chairwoman Konstantina Vassiliou-Enz .

activities

In addition to various projects, the association names the following main areas of responsibility as the association's purpose:

  • Representation of interests for "media workers with a history of migration "
  • Implementation of projects and initiatives for more diversity in the media, in terms of content and personnel
  • Contact person for intercultural journalism
  • Forum for information and exchange and for mutual support and promotion
  • Publication of the concerns and positions of the network, especially to decision-makers in the media and politics
  • Media integration

Concrete, larger projects so far have mainly been the establishment of local and regional networks of media professionals , a mentoring program to support young journalists with a migration background, the free research database Varietyfinder.de with experts with a migration background on a wide range of topics, and the development of a glossary with formulation aids for differentiated reporting, regular media training (project title: “We stay in conversation”) and the information platform for refugees Handbook Germany , which was awarded the Digital Award of the Federal Association of the Digital Economy in 2018 . In addition, the New German Media Makers were commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women and Youth as part of the federal program Living Democracy to coordinate the national implementation of the No Hate Speech Movement .

Chairwoman Sheila Mysorekar and her predecessor Marjan Parvand and Ferda Ataman have been taking part in each of the integration summits in the Chancellery since 2009 at the invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel .

financing

The association is financed through membership fees, donations and earmarked funds for charitable projects. The sponsors include various federal ministries, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees , and the Federal Government's Integration Commissioner . For the project work, the association received project funds totaling 1.2 million euros from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the Federal Government's Integration Commissioner from 2013 to 2017. In addition, in 2018 (as of August 2018), the association received funding of around 450,000 euros from the federal government or state institutions.

In April 2020, Jan-Philipp Hein published in the Welt am Sonntag under the heading “Antiracism as a business model” research on the financing of the association through state funds, after he had not received any information from the association. According to the research, the association will receive the following funds in 2020:

Prominent members

Well-known members are to this day

Media award "The Golden Potato"

The New German media makers has been awarded since 2018 to they create negative prize , the Golden Potato "for particularly unilateral or wayward reporting on aspects of the immigration society ." According to the management which was potato chosen as the namesake for the price, because they are "particularly underground Reporting" pass. On the other hand, the potato from South America also has an immigration history.

Prize winners 2018

The first prize winner in 2018 was Julian Reichelt , editor-in-chief of the BILD newspaper . Reichelt appeared at the award ceremony and rejected the award on the grounds that " potato " was a term used in German schoolyards with regard to ethnic origin. Reichelt spoke on stage with Mohammad Rabie, a refugee journalist from Syria. Sibel Schick criticized in the taz that Reichelt had used it as a token .

Prize winners 2019

In 2019, the award was given to the public talk shows Hart aber fair , Maischberger , Anne Will and Maybrit Illner because their “sensational, clichéd and discriminatory” reporting would create a “distorted picture of coexistence in Germany as a country of immigration and exaggerate problems”. Maybrit Illner and her colleagues rejected the award.

criticism

In June 2020, the conservative columnist Jan Fleischhauer criticized the association in his Focus column as part of an “anti-hate speech industry”. Previously, a satirical column by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (All cops are disabled) in connection with the Black Lives Matter movement had imagined that police officers were only in the dump among their own kind (compare “ All cops are bastards ”). Interior Minister Horst Seehofer , whose authority supports the association had filed a lawsuit against the column post because of sedition considered, followed by numerous members of the association expressed solidarity with Yaghoobifarah. Fleischhauer pointed out that the credibility of anti-hate speech media initiatives would be in doubt if they were used to combat racist hate speech but defend an insult to the police.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gender at the limit | MEEDIA. June 9, 2020, accessed on June 19, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Horst Pöttker: Diversity in the media - lack of numbers and research . 2013 ( mediendienst-integration.de [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Contact - Glossary | New German media makers. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b New German media makers: The association. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  5. ^ The other view ( memento of March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on fr-online.de, January 27, 2009
  6. ↑ Neue Deutsche Medienmacher: Formulation aids for reporting in the immigration country. 2015, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Neue Deutsche Medienmacher: “We remain in conversation”: Start of the media training newsletter. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ The Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration: Information portal awarded. Retrieved October 8, 2018 .
  9. ^ Project description No Hate Speech Movement. In: www.neuemedienmacher.de. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  10. ↑ The Integration Summit 2012 ( memento of September 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's homepage, accessed on October 23, 2012
  11. ↑ Federal Government: Printed matter 19/2376 . ( bundestag.de [PDF]).
  12. ↑ Federal Government: Printed matter 19/3784 . ( bundestag.de [PDF]).
  13. ↑ Jan-Philipp Hein: Journalist Ferda Ataman: Anti-racism as a business model. In: The world . April 6, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ a b c Jan Fleischhauer : Trace of Money: How the State supports a left anti-hate industry with millions. In: Focus.de . June 28, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b Julian Reichelt receives “Golden Potato” A master of panic headlines , Konstantina Vassilou-Enz in conversation with Vladimir Balzer, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Conclusion October 23, 2018
  16. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: An anniversary and a potato for Julian Reichelt. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 3, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Sibel Schick: Negative media price: Chapeau, Herr Reichelt, but ... In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 4, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 11, 2020]).
  18. ↑ Erica Zingher: Prize for discriminatory journalism: "Golden Potato" for talk shows . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 29, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 30, 2019]).
  19. ↑ Negative media award: "Goldene Kartoffel" goes to ARD and ZDF talk shows . In: Spiegel Online . October 29, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 30, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Exaggerated talk show criticism: Who is endangering democracy here? Ed .: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 5, 2019, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 11, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Joachim Huber: Racism, a topic like any other. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 30, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .