Investigative journalists and their team leads are nowadays often faced with KPI’s they are expected to reach: new subscriptions, audience reach, journalism awards, etc.. Does it make sense to burde...
Steffi Dobmeier
Steffi Dobmeier is head of digital and editorial development and member of the chief editorial team at STERN based in Hamburg, Germany. She works at the interface between editorial and product leading the magazine’s digital product development from the editorial side. Before joining STERN in July 2023, Steffi worked with different regional and national news organizations. She was deputy editor-in-chief and later head of digital product at Schwäbische Zeitung and managing editor and member of the chief editorial team at FUNKE Media Group. She also worked for ZEIT ONLINE as well as taz.
Digitalization is not new, but especially for small media organizations, most of them regional ones, digital transformation is a long and stony path. It’s difficult on many levels: publishers who w...
Disappearing act: what the decline of local beat journalists means for our democracies
Local newspapers have historically played a hugely important role in holding local elected representatives to account, unmasking dodgy councillors, nefarious property developers and more. It is these ...
Revolution of the regionals: how German regional media re-organize and centralize their news distribution
More and more big publishing houses in Germany have built central organized newsrooms lately that distribute national content (both for print and digital) for several regional outlets at the same time...
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