Research network NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Georg Mascolo (2013)

The research composite NDR , WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung is a 2014 founded German Investigative - Research Verbund . The former Spiegel editor-in-chief Georg Mascolo has been the director since February 2014 .

background

The background to the collaboration is the enormously changing media landscape. In addition to cost savings, the speed of research should also be increased. Since it was founded, the research network has been featured regularly in news programs, including a. in the Tagesschau , quoted.

The network reported, among other things, on foreign business of the Chinese leadership, the whistleblower Edward Snowden , the Salafist scene in Germany and the emissions scandal . On April 20, 2016, the research network announced that, in addition to Volkswagen , many other automobile manufacturers had also falsified emissions.

In April 2016, the association reported on the so-called Panama Papers ; Confidential documents from the Panamanian offshore service provider Mossack Fonseca , which were leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung and evaluated by hundreds of journalists around the world for months. The documents provide insight into the opaque activities of the offshore finance industry. On November 5, 2017, the association published the so-called Paradise Papers .

criticism

In mid-March 2015, the Association of Private Broadcasting and Telemedia filed a legal supervisory complaint against the research network. You accused the association of distorting competition in favor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In addition, the activities of the ARD broadcasters are not covered by the public service mandate. Further critics, more of an idealistic or media ethical nature, are the publisher Jakob Augstein and the journalist Jörg Eigendorf .

The media magazine Zapp addressed the allegations against the research association of presenting a “citation cartel” and “cross-subsidization for a newspaper by contribution-financed broadcasters”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mascolo will head the research network of NDR, WDR and Süddeutscher Zeitung in the future. German Press Agency (dpa) from January 24, 2014. Accessed April 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Questionable research multi. Cicero on February 20, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ LKA-NI: Salafist scene in Wolfsburg: research association of NDR, WDR and "Süddeutscher Zeitung" throw LKA omissions before LKA Lower Saxony rejects allegations. In: presseportal.de. April 1, 2015, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ VW apparently also manipulated in Europe. In: sz.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 7, 2015, accessed on October 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Martin U. Müller : Protest of private broadcasters: complaint against the research network of NDR, WDR and Süddeutscher Zeitung at Spiegel Online, published on March 15, 2015, accessed on March 18, 2016
  6. ^ Criticism of NDR, WDR and SZ. Three in one boat. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 15, 2015, accessed on April 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ “Very questionable cooperation”. Focus, June 30, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ What is research allowed in the network? ZAPP - The ARD media magazine from July 7, 2014. Archived from the original on July 10, 2014 ; Retrieved April 2, 2015 .
  9. ^ Cooperation criticized - NDR, WDR and SZ. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .