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by christina — last modified 2008-03-04 13:11


Library of German Newspapers

Usually one click is enough and you will find your daily breakfast newspaper also on the Internet. From the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" [FAZ] and the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" with Germany wide importance to our "AugsburgerAllgemeine Zeitung" and also our local culture magazin "Neue Szene": nearly all traditional papers have their www-version. Here you find an extensive collection of newspapers: "Uni Duisburg Linkssammlung".

A completely different picture is to be found if you are searching for a daily newspaper which is a pure online product. The opportunity - and an advantage for the reader - could be that the producers don't have to answer to a "mother editors office" and that they have to bear in mind always the potential of a globally spread audience.

Here we would like to present you 4 journalistic products which claim to fulfil this brief:

  • The Netzeitung.de, a subsidiary of the Norwegian success Nettavision.no. The publisher is the Internet service www.spray.net, which belongs to Lycos Europe. Going online November 2000, this newspaper, with it's 20 editors, offers "enlightened journalism" - as chief editor Michael Maier puts it. Besides news from Germany and abroad, it reports on economics and sports, and it offers a "university page, a "media page" and a cultural part [Voice of Germany] as their specialities. In the future they will be focusing on "digital storytelling": complex linking between texts and multimedia elements.
  • Competitor actuell24.de promote themselves with the subtitle "the daily news, which is only published on the Internet".
  • ecircle.de offers a newsletter, which is distributed every morning. The editors are investigating the internet for information on politics, sports and economic news. They make a brief newsletter of this and send it with the link to the source to their subscribers.

All of these offers have something in common: Those who expect from a pure online service the quality, quantity and profundity associated with a traditional news-"paper" will be disappointed. They correspond directly to their transport media, the Internet: it must be fast, short, contemporary, easy to read and to pass on. With this intention, for example, every article from the Netzeitung.de comes with the exact time it is published, every editor can be reached and every article can be sent separately via E-mail.

Only culture and lifestyle sections have no real platform yet. Only snippets about pop stars or cinema news can be expected. But there is still the question: Does an internet newspaper have to be equal to a traditional one?

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