On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. Today, this fatal event marks the 80th time in the Bundestag Chancellor Angela Merkel has therefore reminded that democracy must be defended always new at a memorial service on the Holocaust: "A vibrant company with a human face needs people who respect and respect for each other, responsibility for themselves and others assume that courageously and openly take a stand -., and thus are willing to take criticism and headwinds in buying "

In Germany there are brown zones
Second, such an attitude throughout the country, especially in those areas where extremists to gain political influence. 80 years after Hitler's appointment unfortunately it is one of the facts: In Germany, there are municipalities and regions in which right is not a marginal phenomenon. Der Spiegel has this recently in a data card with the title "brown zone" (as of 2012) aufgeschlüssselt hair small for the East German states.

The map can be seen that the NPD has received more than selector considerable popularity in recent state elections in each case, especially in Thuringia, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Occasionally reached the NPD in these three states share of the vote of more than 30 percent. Extreme right-wing, the SPIEGEL not enjoying it in some areas, "the status of a national party."

Special responsibility for regional newspapers
Why this is so, will monocausally certainly not be answered, and certainly not in a short blog post. But if it is true that independent newspapers are essential for a democratic polity instances (of which I am very confident), then comes the newspapers in the so-called "brown zones" a special responsibility. It is in the three most affected provinces supported by 19 regional dailies that are essentially owned by only five media houses (German printing and publishing company, WAD, Schleswig-Holsteinischer newspaper publisher, West German media holding [SWMH] and WAZ):

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Ostsee-Zeitung (Madsack/73 per cent), the People's Daily Schwerin (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag/100 cent; own research), North German Latest News (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag/100 cent; own research) and the North messenger / courier Uckermark (Augsburger Allgemeine, Kieler Nachrichten [Madsack/49 cent], Swabian Newspaper / 33.3 per cent respectively).

In Saxony there are the Free Press (Media Union [SWMH] / 100 per cent), Saxon newspaper (German Printing and Publishing Company Ltd., Hamburg/40 per cent), the Dobelner Gazette (German printing and publishing company mbh/40 per cent), The Leipzig People's Daily (Madsack/100 per cent), the Torgau newspaper (Madsack/24, 9 per cent), Dresdner Latest News (Madsack/100 per cent), Dresdner Morgenpost (Gruner + Jahr/60 per cent) and the Serbske Nowiny.

In Thuringia it is the Thüringer Allgemeine (WAZ/50 & Mitarbeiter/50 per cent), the East Thuringian newspaper (WAZ/60 per cent), the Free Word (Süddeutsche Verlag [SWMH] / 70 per cent, German printing and publishing company mbh/30 cent ), the Meininger Tageblatt (media group Oberfranken/50 cent, Süddeutsche Verlag [SWMH] / ~ 50 per cent), the South Thuringia Newspaper (Süddeutsche Verlag [SWMH] / 70 per cent, German printing and publishing company mbh/30 per cent) and the Thuringian newspaper (WAZ/100 per cent).

(Sources: contactor, Walter J.: Editorial and publishing structure of the German daily press in: Media Perspectives, No. 11/2012, pp. 594-603; Roeper, Horst. Newspaper market in 2012 In: Media Perspectives, No. 5 /. , 2012, pp. 268-285; "newspapers with full editorial," poster distribution areas of journalist and Formatt Institute (Stand: 12/2010), in brackets: owner [if parent group] / direct share in per cent).

As it is with these regional newspapers in detail and will work under what conditions editorial, a comprehensive research would be worth it. From the state, of course, can not make this more substantial statements that forbids it. Colleagues but in the morning perhaps involuntarily at the bakery counter the neo-Nazis, and still maintain a critical attitude, in any case deserves the highest respect even from afar. Especially since some of the newspapers listed for some time are under massive pressure to save money.

Local journalism under pressure to save money
Verdi, DJV and DJU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, for example, complain long been a thinning of staff in a number of publishers and therefore keep on the development of the Baltic Sea on a continuous basis - on their joint website , "Our country needs its newspapers".

If so, what the trade union organizations report then it is at the local journalism in the northeast, to put it mildly, in some places not just the best: The Nordkurier example, has from the border region of Poland between Prenzlau Pasewalk, Pomerania and Anklam last seen retreated further - so exactly where the NPD in this area has their electoral strongholds.

On the other hand, there are also outstandingly positive examples: The Lusatian Rundschau involved in the southeastern Brandenburg for many years as a vote against right - and it has this past fall the "Award for Courage against right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism" of the Sponsorship "monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe "and the Jewish Community of Berlin bestowed get. Nazis in the spring of 2012 had sullied in Spremberg editors with hate slogans and hung carcasses to editors signs.

Thus it is seen by journalists on the spot
As editors assess their situation in East German local teams themselves, it is the way for the Christian bagel TIME last year, absolutely worth reading impressions collected. It's true pondering if it is an editor in the record, "is not our job to be teachers democracy".

Bagel himself stated in his article: "fear of attack would hardly admit a local editor open. One of Mladeks predecessors found in his mailbox the death sentence of a self-proclaimed People's Court. Another journalist was attacked with a stun gun at the door. Pasewalk neo-Nazis showed up even in the offices of the Northern Courier. "

Fits into the picture today because the just released press freedom ranking of Reporters Without Borders: Germany ranks up there in 17th place - also because it was in this country again to register last year, attacks by Islamists and neo-Nazis on journalists.

Related Links

ARD Mittagsmagazin: Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Bundestag (video and report)

Time: New German Nazis (Series)

Video interviews to local journalism in East Germany , produced by local journalists program of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (2010)

MDR.de: Obstruction of works - investigation of Magdeburg People's Voice Chefs

Reinhard Müller has today expressed in the FAZ for ancillary rights. Not really worth mentioning. But this quote can only shake their heads to:

It is a compulsory exercise of the opposition, is to inject a project of the government - in this case this is strange, but the SPD has previously endorsed the related right in the matter. But are not the youth organizations of all political parties represented? Not told us the system of public broadcasting, the publishers would have to spend more to invest? Professors do not have the supposedly outmoded "business model newspaper" go? Certainly, whoever does not have to earn money or even be paid by the state (ie is worn regardless of its performance by all taxpayers), which can easily play the market liberals. It costs nothing.

I guess I am one of those professors, that Mr. Mueller echauffiert so very appropriate competent. Anyway, I feel addressed. And I therefore welcome the following hold, so there's no misunderstanding:

In order to continue to exist in the media market, the newspapers have to change. Also, the FAZ. This hold does not lose its factual accuracy by the fact that I make my living in the state. Just as things are, it is at the FAZ with a willingness to accept these changes as needed, obviously not the best.

Frank Schirrmacher harm with his text, moreover, both its newspaper and the newspaper media genus altogether. Many of the process in the future serve as a testimony that the newspaper publishers use their power for their own journalistic interests. Where, quite a few readers will ask themselves, begins, where does it end? Affected is thus the central basis of all newspaper editorial power: their credibility.

As far as the LSR: Should it actually be adopted in its present form by the Bundestag, legal uncertainty for many bloggers and twitterers is the inevitable result. The public information events would be massively affected. The LSR applies not just Google, because of fear of incalculable cost risks are very likely many blog voices silenced quickly.

There are rested to a legal analysis.

Incidentally, I think the FAZ for a excellent well-crafted newspaper, even if it is for my taste a little Müllert there and again loudly. As a Journalism Professor. I wish you a long life - as I also wish all the other newspapers.

As PS by the way even this trifle: My replica of Frank Schirrmacher's article "The Sacred Promise" (see below) I first posted in the outgoing week in Faznet forum, where she was, apparently, and after review by the author, not released behaviourless deleted from my profile. Or so it has informed me of the FAZ reader service. I call that censorship. It could not be fainthearted.

(Click to enlarge) 3 screenshots for documentation here:

The reader wrote on 28/11/12 FAZnet post in my forum profile

The reaction of the FAZ service to my readers demand from the morning of 30/11/12

My FAZnet forum profile on the evening of 30/11/12

And as PPS should also be noted that I mind mitwirke in research and teaching in many projects and in many ways, even better set up newspapers to the new requirements in cross-media market. Even for that I will borne by taxpayers.

More on this debate there is the blog of Stefan Niggemeier.

What the Ruhr news editors in Dortmund just doing in this moment shows how the newspaper as a media genre and tomorrow is indispensable: Around the defusing of a bomb attack in the Dortmund district hospital the RN reporters are currently in continuous use.

For 13 clock is livegetickert, reported on Twitter, on the site, there are texts, photo galleries, videos, audios. Distributed at the meeting just a freshly printed extra output that can be obtained free of charge by e-mail, printed Twitter timeline included.

Hopefully all goes well. Shortly to begin defusing the bomb.

Click here for the website.

Click here for the Twitter timeline.

Click here for the # dobombe timeline

That is the extra output.

The Dortmund city desk of the WAZ is also active, also with a full program:

Click here for the website.

Click here for the Twitter timeline.

Collegiality proves RP online. Colleagues from Dusseldorf record at 22:37 clock: "Recent developments on the hashtag # DoBombe on Twitter or Ticker Dortmund in the Ruhr Nachrichten" and also link directly to it. The link works peace.

Update

1 The bomb was defused in the night.

2 @ RN_DORTMUND: Great compliment to the clean print + web + Photo + Video + Twitter + + extra Storify by e-mail work on the # DoBombe!

3 Here's a little retrospective on the form of presentation "live ticker":
So he moulted to the standard narrative form

4 Interview: about the social media activities of the Ruhr-Nachrichten Sonja Munching spoke with editorial director Philip Ostrop.

5 Video insights into the RN editorial is available directly from RN editorial director Philip Ostrop

What I missed in the debate about the future of the newspaper in the last few days were hard facts. In my view, the main problem is that the business model of newspapers eroded plain and simple (see Schirrmacher replica). This problem is not on the table. Quite the contrary.

In order to consider the issue from a business perspective, and perhaps somewhat factual, I've studied from Bremen Publisher meeting in 2011 just once Slides media consultant Gregory Waller (Frenemies) and Gregory Enderle (OC & C Strategy Consultants GmbH): Since much has been listed what the situation gets to the point. The Core: The old business model will disappear and the new must be built with high pressure.

The presentation slides from Gregory Waller (PDF)

The presentation slides from Gregory Enderle (PDF)

Compare this prediction curves - especially the upward trend line for online sales - with the image of the latest figures from the U.S. (see below). It shows all the drama: In the U.S., online advertising revenues of newspapers stagnate at low levels. Media consultant Enderle says: Cross Media requires a coordinated overall strategy for all playout used.

These are fresh figures on the development of the print advertising market in the USA. Also very impressive.

Read more here.

In all the peripheral talk of a crisis should not be forgotten, however: Print is alive! Tobias Kaufmann, Head of Production at Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, to a very readable contribution written.

Quite obviously, it has once again works: Frank Schirrmacher has the theme "newspaper crisis" in his recent contribution to the debate stylishly turned further. All jump on the subject (I). But nothing more.

Fact: The Death of FR and FTD can hardly an alleged "Californian neo-liberal ideology" are overloaded (there's the ever exactly where they can be read?).

The errors of the newspaper publishers to stay home-made: Many decision makers have understood too late that the Internet is their business model crumbles. Mr. Schirrmacher is one of those that just will not be able to acknowledge it or want.

In fact, his contribution is therefore hardly more than the somewhat more elaborate attempt to justify the related right for newspapers. The urgesteinliche SZ-mate Prantl has Schirrmacher pass indeed taken already grateful and tooted the same horn. That's a total of understandable, but just as transparent as the embarrassing propaganda of Google page. Yet, it seems like a rearguard action.

PS: Participation found on the web, unlike Schirrmacher claimed loss is not just a button-Gedrücke instead - as indeed in the forum of FAZnet is not difficult to see.