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German student explores the depths of El Salvador’s specialty coffee
UP, UP AND AWAY! WEBER DHBW-student Noemi Gerhäusser reports for us about coffee farming, people and life in El Salvador. Her blog posts in German can be found free of charge at the WEBER news blog.
More and more editorial staff within the United States and Germany are checking facts more than twice and stand for a new approach to editing and writing — a constructive, ad-free and solution-oriented type of journalism.
At first we recognized a German ad-free project called the Krautreporter. Shortly after that the two neuroscientists Dr. Maren Urner und Han Langeslag invented Perspective Daily.
At the same time we found Correctiv on the Internet. Its editorial staff works on an investigative, independent and charitable basis and is devoted to investigative journalism. One of their internationally famous coups was the uncovering of the cum ex businesses. And they did something we had never heard about before: They signed a kind of voluntary commitment developed by The Poynter Institute about checking facts.
After attending Correctiv’s first Campfire Festival “for journalism and the New Media” in 2017, we were full of inspiration about what we could do in our daily work to improve our corporate communication.
We want to become the number one communicator regarding all topics that matter for our clients, suppliers and the public.
Back home again, we eventually got to know other new new communities like the editorial group founding the online magazine Republik from Switzerland, the Membership Puzzle Project collecting everything about all of those grassroot movements and, last but not least, the formerly Dutch De Correspondent, which is now the international #unbreakingnews project The Correspondent.
Our aim is a very high one. And not very easy. But it is worth all the struggling because here in Europe we should do everything to strengthen our freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, human dignity on land and sea, and our democracy.
Today, as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Weimar Constitution, we all pause for a moment in our daily lives to commemorate the event, in which Germany (Europe) possessed a parliamentary democracy for the first time and women were given the right to vote. All that is not natural.
