zoomer.de

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zoomer.de

description German news portal
publishing company Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group
First edition February 2008
attitude February 2009
Frequency of publication daily (Mon-Sun)
Editor-in-chief Frank Syré
editor Ulrich Wickert
executive Director Peter Neumann

zoomer.de was a German news portal that appeared exclusively on the Internet .

zoomer.de went online in February 2008 and belonged to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group , the publisher was the former television presenter Ulrich Wickert . The approximately 40-strong editorial team was based in Berlin and also produced there for the online edition of the Tagesspiegel and the Zeit Online news page . Zoomer.de was developed, among other things, by the editorial team that had previously produced the business newspaper BusinessNews , as well as by the Tagesspiegel online editorial team.

The news portal was aimed at young users and relied on extensive interactivity. Logged-in members could, among other things, send comments via video. The zoomer.de editors described the weighting of the topics as innovative. Articles that were frequently clicked on and commented on remained in a prominent position. In addition to the editor himself, (video) columnists included Christoph von Marschall , Oliver Forster , Fiona Erdmann , Wladimir Kaminer and Lorenz Maroldt .

In addition to its own video contributions, zoomer.de showed selected TV contributions from the RTL media group and the daily news produced for the Internet in 100 seconds . This made zoomer.de the first website outside of ARD to use the Tagesschau's video offering.

In October 2008 the portal had around 4.5 million visitors with around 8.5 million page views . According to a study by the Online Research Working Group , zoomer.de ranks 9th among the most visited German news portals on the Internet in September 2008.

On February 9th, 2009 the editor-in-chief Frank Syré announced that zoomer.de would be closed at the end of February 2009. The reason he gave was the effects of the economic and media crisis on the parent company, the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ die tageszeitung : zoomer.de editor-in-chief on his portal: “We are not a test station” . July 31, 2008
  2. ↑ Meedia : Tagesschau and Zoomer cooperate . November 25, 2008
  3. ↑ DWDL.de : AGOF: "Spiegel Online" extends lead . September 25, 2008.
  4. ↑ Meedia : Holtzbrinck ends zoomer experiment . February 9, 2009.