Daily news for deaf-blind people
The daily news for deaf-blind people is Germany's smallest daily newspaper . The national paper, founded in 1986, is published in Berlin by the German Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and has a circulation of around 100 copies . The newspaper, intended for deaf-blind people, appears in Braille .
This print offer is largely unknown to the general public as well as in media studies . The daily news for deaf-blind people meet all the criteria of a normal daily newspaper ( topicality , periodicity , universality , publicity). The newsletter is published on a regular basis from Monday to Friday with current, wider coverage and is for those who have the Braille dominate or Lormen can and a Lormer have unlimited access.
The newspaper appears daily with ten pages in DIN A4 format and contains around 15 to 20 current reports (news) in the areas of international , national , business and sports . The range of current regional news is to be expanded.
For reasons of space, the newspaper does not contain longer articles . Even advertising is not rejected, because of the small target group and the high printing costs so far none have advertisers interested. The subscription is free and only possible for deaf-blind and visually impaired members of the DBSV. It is financed by donations or grants from the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
The target group are those around 1,500 Germans who can neither hear nor see and therefore cannot read news from commercial newspapers and magazines or from the radio . With their 100 copies, the daily news reaches about seven percent of the maximum possible circulation . In other words, they are sold almost twice as often among those who know Braille as the picture among the German normal population.
Since those affected often only have limited reading comprehension due to the limitations of their disability , the daily news appears in simple language . The sentence structure is simplified, foreign words are deleted or explained. In addition, deafblind readers are informed about the pronunciation of new words.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Matysiak: The only window into the world. Deaf-blind people read Germany's smallest daily newspaper. In: epd Sozial Nr. 3, January 20, 2006 (here online) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).