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Articles tagged Spiegel Online (6)

Shan WangAugust 8, 2018

In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation

And apparently without incident! “The ultimate goal is a less polarized debate and a less polarized, more open, and plural public…But we also want to raise people’s awareness of the value of joining in on the same conversation, and not splitting into different atoms.”

Shan WangFebruary 14, 2018

Comfortable in its first language, this German business publisher hopes to build a global audience off its English edition

Part of Handelsblatt Global’s strategy is trying to be ruthlessly practical about its position in the market: “If you get an American reader, nobody would ever switch from The New York Times for us.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 10, 2017

Mozilla fights misinformation with a new program (and some help from Firefox users)

“How do you make it more palatable and acceptable for people to emotionally engage with reality?”

Shan WangJuly 28, 2016

Pay it forward: LaterPay, a German payment infrastructure company, offers micropayments with a twist

Read now, buy later: “We defer the time when you have to register and pay to a later stage, letting you convince yourself of the content, of the quality of the content, of the benefits that are offered to you.”

Shan WangMarch 31, 2016

Is Der Spiegel’s leaked Innovation Report one of the key documents of this (German) media age?

A stern self-analysis: “We inflate our importance. We can’t confess to weaknesses and certainly can’t show them. We don’t surprise often enough. We try too little that is really new. We set the wrong priorities.”

Shan WangOctober 21, 2015

Young money: How German legacy publishers are chasing millennial audiences

“We didn’t want to alienate core loyal readers with sudden content for younger audiences. So we started a whole other product to cater to young people where we can try new things, ‘move fast, and break stuff.'”