By Bernhard Kirschner
‘It’s great what you’re doing here.’ Katharina Thoms, a reporter for Deutschlandfunk, was impressed by the work of tuenews INTERNATIONAL. She had visited the editorial team at the Tübingen District Office to do a radio report for the regional report of Deutschlandfunk Kultur. For this, authors, coaches and management had come together for an editorial meeting in person. Usually, this takes place online once a week.
Part-time training and violence against women
This time, too, many topics were discussed and assigned as assignments for articles or reports. One author, a refugee from Syria, will research and write about part-time training. She has small children and would like to become a saleswoman. The fact that violence against women has increased should also be addressed in a report. Racism and increasing discrimination were discussed in detail, which worries refugees a lot. But cultural topics – such as the German saying ‘knock on wood’ or Semitic peoples – were also discussed in the tuenews editorial meeting. It was decided that the federal election should be taken up in several articles.
The reference to tuenews came from Amal
Katharina Thoms followed the discussions with great interest and conducted extensive interviews with authors and experienced coaches who provide her with journalistic support. A Deutschlandfunk editor in Berlin had commissioned the reporter. He had come across tuenews via an article from the refugee online platform Amal. Editors from Amal had recently visited Tübingen and written a report about it (https://amalberlin.de/de/2024/10/23/es-begann-mit-einer-wandzeitung/).
After an hour and a half, Ms Thoms, who has been dealing with the topic of migration for over ten years, had gathered enough material for her radio report. It is online on the Deutschlandfunk Kultur homepage, see Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Reportage tuenews INTERNATIONAL.
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Journalist Katharina Thoms from Deutschlandfunk visits tuenews INTERNATIONAL. Photo: tuenews INTERNATIONAL / Ute Kaiser.
