Thomas Kaspar

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Thomas Hermann Kaspar (born January 11, 1968 in Munich ) is a German journalist . He has been Chief Product Officer of Ippen Digital since May 2015 and also Editor-in-Chief of Frankfurter Rundschau since March 2019 .

Life

During his school days at the Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium in Ingolstadt, Kaspar was editor - in- chief of the school newspaper Feuermelder . After graduating from high school in 1986, he worked in the newsroom of the newly established regional television channel INTV in the first editorial office. As a scholarship holder of the then Dr. Hans Kapfinger Foundation (now the Institute for Journalist Training), he completed his journalistic training at the Passauer Neue Presse and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation while completing his master's degree and teaching degree. He completed his teaching degree for high school in 1996 with a thesis on virtual reality and the consequences for media at Tilman Grammes .

From 1996 to 1998 Kaspar initially worked as a music dramaturge and head of public relations at the Stadttheater Passau . As a dramaturge, he arranged the German premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Alzira and was one of the co-founders of the Passauer Gitarrentage and the Passauer Tanztheatertage. He also worked as a dramaturge for the cross-border Euregio Music Orchestra.

In 1998 he returned to the media business and initially headed the editorial department of the Passauer Neue Presse in Burghausen , before launching Donaukurer Online in Ingolstadt in 2000 as one of the first regional newspapers to go online . In 2001 he moved to Burda and ran the Internet magazine Computer Easy in various functions, most recently as editor-in-chief. In 2004 he switched to the computer magazine CHIP . He founded "Chip Creative Media", a forerunner of the later native advertising agencies. As the first German “Editor-in-Chief Community”, he then switched to CHIP Online. As Chief User Officer, Kaspar set up user research, the user lab and the user experience for Chip Online.

In 2012, Kaspar switched to the Munich internet agency Ray Sono as Managing Partner and was in charge of customer journey management .

In May 2015 he switched back to the media and has since been responsible as Chief Product Officer for all regional portals on the Ippen Digital platform , including merkur.de, tz.de, hna.de, wa.de and numerous newly created 24-page portals. From September 2016 he was also editor-in-chief of Ippen Digital Zentralredaktion as well as of merkur.de and tz.de. He gave up this position when he became second editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau alongside Bascha Mika on March 1, 2019 . The newspaper also belongs to the publisher Dirk Ippen. He has been the sole editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau since April 1, 2020.

Publications

  • Thomas Kaspar: Impetus - workbook for political lessons . Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, 1995, ISBN 3-12-057200-4 .
  • Thomas Kaspar: Alzira, program for the German premiere, Passau 1998
  • Thomas Kaspar: Web 2.0 - Earning money with communities . CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-58562-3 .
  • Thomas Kaspar together with Gerd Scherm: The labyrinth. The magic flute, second part . BoD, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-1557-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scholarship holders of the Institute for Journalist Training
  2. ↑ W&V: Ray Sono: New work community for Thomas Kaspar
  3. ↑ Thomas Kaspar: Thinking in terms of user behavior provides information about the right marketing mix
  4. ^ Thomas Kaspar: Product and editorial team ippen-digital.de
  5. ↑ The dual leadership of the ippen-digital.de central editorial office
  6. ↑ Why Ippen makes Thomas Kaspar editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau kress.de, February 26, 2019
  7. ↑ Bascha Mika gives up editor-in-chief of FR - Thomas Kaspar runs kress.de alone , March 18, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kaspar, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaspar, Thomas Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich