This workshop is directed primarily to guest and visiting students from abroad who want to improve their knowledge about the Press-System, its importance and its daily appearance in Germany. The lecture will be designed in an interactive format. This means that students will be be asked to discuss in class issues identified by the lecturers or their fellow students in class or take part in workshops as well.

Content/Structure/Overview:

We dive into the history of the Federal Republic of Germany and its society. We discuss the young Bundesrepublik after 1949 and the Press as the fourth power in the State including its controlling function referring to the Constitution/Grundgesetz.
We get an overview of the recent Press and Media: The most important daily news-papers and trendsetters, political journalism; we get to know the yellow press, private TV and we show the special function of the „Öffentlich Rechtlicher Rundfunk“ - public Broadcast. Later on, we examine the publishers` market of newspapers and magazines.
We will highlight different types and styles of journalism, like „article“, „report“, „comment“, „essay/Leitartikel“, „feature“ etc. and we work with texts, show examples…

Works:

We write our own press releases, comments and essays, we take part in a press conference and we will witness an editors' meeting, we create headlines, stories and plots. Finally, we will change perspectives and look into the daily work of a spokesperson or a PR agency.

Credits: 5