Peter Welchering

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Peter Welchering (2010)

Peter Welchering (* 1960 in Borken , Westphalia) is a German journalist and university lecturer at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart.

Career

After studying philosophy and theology, he worked as a technology and science journalist for radio and television from 1983. He was editor-in-chief of Computer Zeitung and Business Online for six years and helped set up the IndustrieNet online portal . Before that, he worked for several years as a volunteer trainer in specialist publishers, including c't . He then founded Media01, a production company for electronic media Cologne-Stuttgart and VoxMundi Medienanstalt GmbH Stuttgart. He writes and produces for Deutschlandfunk , SWR and ZDF , as well as for magazines and newspapers.

He teaches online / offline investigation at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart.

Welchering is a science journalist for, among others, CUT and the Deutschlandfunk program “ Forschung Aktuell” . He also works as a journalism and media trainer and teaches at journalism schools and academies. He is the founder of VoxMundi Medienanstalt based in Cologne, Stuttgart. He was a regular guest at Computer Club 2 .

Peter Welchering was chairman of the FDP city association and district chairman of the German Association of Journalists (DJV). In 2011 he was elected to the German Press Council, so he resigned from his political offices due to possible conflicts of interest. The term " Federal Trojan " comes from him . Among other things, he uncovered the data scandal with the file background during the accreditation debacle at the G20 summit in Hamburg and reported on it for the first time on July 22, 2017 on Deutschlandfunk. In March 2019, he reported on Deutschlandfunk about extensive research, according to which Facebook has its own intelligence service to monitor Facebook critics who are referred to as "opponents". The reporting leads to investigations by the Hamburg commissioner for data protection, which are still ongoing. As a member of the German Press Council, from 2010 to 2014 he primarily campaigned for better protection of informants https://www.journalistenakademie.de/blog/2010/11/09/neu-im-presserat-peter-welchering/

Which ring is in the jury that awards the alternative media prize, as well as in the jury of the journalist prize for computer science.

In July 2019, Welchering resigned in protest against the behavior of the DJV top.

Works

Welchering authored several articles for the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , including profane, profanity and Pythagoreanism II .

  • 1987, profane. Materials on the history of a term that has been neglected and researched . In: Archive for Conceptual History , Hamburg, Meiner. - Vol. 28, pp. 63-99
  • 1991, Jan Masschelein: Communicative action and pedagogical action: the significance of Habermass's communication-theoretical turn for pedagogy . Translated from the Dutch. by Peter Welchering and Michael Astroh, Dt. Studien-Verl., Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3892712646
  • 2008, with Stefan Hencke , Jan Lehmhaus , Tim Stefan Schmidt : Hencke Brand Library . Kienzle, Zurich, ISBN 3280053315
  • 2011: Science as a limit value: the noematic phenomenology in its science-based function . Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich - New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-86306-724-3
  • 2012, with Manfred Kloiber and Jan Rähm : Bits and Bombs: Cyberwar: Concepts, Strategies and Real Digital Controversies . As before, ISBN 978-3-86924-325-2
  • 2017, with Manfred Kloiber: Protection of informants. Ethical, legal and technical practice in journalism and organizational communication. Springer, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-658-08718-0

Audio books

Peter Welchering has produced and edited numerous audio books. The audio books for industry, elaborate features and radio plays produced by his companies Media01 and VoxMundi Medienanstalt are used by well-known companies for product marketing and image PR. His audio book entitled “The Computer Weapons of Al Qaida” is available as MP3 on the Internet.

Peter Welchering on Deutschlandfunk

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Kress  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kresspost.de  
  2. ↑ voxmundi.net VoxClients - References VoxClients - References ( Memento from December 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ ludwigsburger-kreiszeitung.de ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ FDP Remseck ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Pohl, Hartmut : On the technology of the secret online search . In: Data protection and data security . 31 (2007) 9, page 684, note 1.
  6. ↑ Peter Welchering in conversation with Manfred Kloiber: In need of care - Can you still trust the federal security files? In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved September 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Facebook's controversial list of "threats". March 9, 2019, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ http://www.alternativen-medienpreis.de/jury/
  9. ↑ Journalist Prize for Computer Science. In: Saarland Informatics Campus. Retrieved January 25, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ https://www.welchering.de/2019/07/13/djv-austritt-aus-protest/
  11. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, 7, 1442–1446
  12. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, 7, 1724–1729
  13. ↑ Website with further information on the book Protection of Informants
  14. ↑ VoxMundi Medienanstalt GmbH - Kornwestheim. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
  15. ↑ media01.de Imprint
  16. ↑ Sources: Techmoteum ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.techmoteum.de
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DATE OF BIRTH 1960
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