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Yes, indeed, and I think that having a well-capialized banking system lies at the very core of the creationof the Federal Reserve system. Fact checking will help to show up such stories that are mainly based on one source only. I do not intend to say, that they make more mistaktes than others. On the slide you see how Der Spiegel treats facts.

They have a department staffed with around people trying to eliminate or at least to reduce the amount of mistakes. According to one well documented account — this means that changes have been made due to the fact-checking of one issue only. This count includes mistakes and another cases where the fact-checking lead to more precision. Some of these mistakes probably were only made because the journalists at Der Spiegel are fully aware that their magazine has fact-checkers and mistakes will be erased before going to the printing press. So journalists at Spiegel bother less to avoid mistakes because of the fact-checking.

However, despite the enormous effort Der Spiegel still makes mistakes —.

Moreover it is a message to the readership: This paper cares about accuracy. Factual mistakes and other shortcomings must at least be talked about — they must be a regular topic in staff meetings. It is very rare that journalists talk about their mistakes and admit that they have been wrong. In this case Hans Leyendecker frankly admitted that he was wrong — which makes him an even greater investigative journalist than he already is. And of course he did not publish that false story on purpose — he was very sure that he was right. In another case a journalist wondered about how many hectares of forest there are in Schleswig-Holstein.

If you look into that dataset — Hamburg looks like a huge forest. The government here spent money on increasing the forest area in this state. So looking into the statistic was decisive on whether that money had an effect. We were asked to fact-check it. And came up with a quite different account. But no other journalist investigated that — although it was printed in Der Spiegel. We get reports on pesticides in our food, of the nasty bits of small print in insurance contracts and on hazardous toys, but we do not have consumer reports on the quality of our media.

This is a structural problem because it is a hindrance for competition in quality. So if we complain that the media only compete in market share, this is due to a lack of alternatives. By the way — it is not only consumer reports missing here, but consumer rights. You cannot return a newspaper because of factual mistakes nor can you reclaim your money or asked for a corrected version. Today everybody can publish and — different from ten years ago - everybody who wants to be read can publish and will be found by his or her audience.

They are powerful means of publication. If you should decide to start a blog on local politics in Kiel tonight, by tomorrow everybody who googles - say for the name of the candidates for mayor ship- will find your blog. It is important to understand that the web 2. Otherwise we journalists might end up thinking that it is very difficult to replace journalism by private diaries.

This is no longer true. Today you no longer need a publisher, a printing press or a broadcast station to share your stories. That is a problem for those owning such equipment, but it is not necessarily a problem for journalists. From my perspective as a reader, it looks quite different: Up to today I pay my newspaper for printing news on paper and to deliver the paper in the early morning, while the publisher acquires advertisement to pay for the content. So nobody should wonder that I dislike paying for content — I am simply not used to it.

This is still a business model — Spiegel Online and Bild.

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I would like to make a political remark here since the Leistungsschutz-Gesetz still has to pass Bundesrat. Every publisher today is able to withdraw from Google completely or to deny Google to use their content. Every webmaster can change that within minutes and stop Google from showing those two lines or from indexing their content at all.

Publishers profit a lot from Google and Facebook — because online they are the main pathways to bring readers to them.

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Especially those publishers who advocate that strange piece of legislation the most, I name Springer and Burda, are the ones who spent a lot of money on search engine optimisation — apparently because it pays off for them. I repeat this re-phrased: They pay for automatically generated content and for training and consultancy to optimise their profit from Google. Knowing that, it is rather strange to hear them now claiming the whole situation is vice versa and Google should pay.

What should we journalists concentrate on? What is it that could distinguish journalists from the other folk who publish nowadays? In the age of Twitter — you do not have to own a wire network to be the first to report. But coming from that tradition — speed is still seen as an important criteria in journalism. But today, if publishers go for fast news, they end up with all the others having the same news. In my opinion there is no doubt that media will no longer create great revenue from mainstream news — and please do not even think of making your audience pay for that.

Hence it is a good idea to stress different journalistic virtues: All this is a long-term-project, but if you do not engage in this, you are less likely to survive in journalism for more than another decade. If you imagine yourself the number of editors who are busy monitoring and editing the news agency feeds in order to fill their federal and foreign policy sections or to write some, usually not very insightful, commentary, you see the very workforce that publishers should employ to do something better.

Something that gives greater or added value to their readership. What could that be? They should no longer compete in areas where they cannot be first grade players. This is the paraphrased mantra on how to survive in the digital age as a business — Jeff Jarvis originally meant this to be an advice to bloggers:. Until Tuesday evening I had this quote slightly wrong — until I fact-checked it.

For regional papers something they could do best is clearly reporting on their region, on the communities. That will even include going hyperlocal, that is, covering what is going on in smaller sections of a city or region. Editors and reporters in the regions know their area and readership, they should be most important to their papers.

Whereas a regional paper does not necessarily need a lot of staff on federal and even international politics. If you no longer need to edit federal policy you can do stories nobody else is assigned to.

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Especially in a regional environment it is very easy to be unique. The story on how big the forests are in this state, is a small example — but it is unique and still most journalists could have written it. Moreover this story matches two criteria that I always employ when I have to decide whether something is good enough for publication. Is the story told in a comprehensible way so that everybody who heard about it can easily retell the story?

Before I come to an end, let me return to fact-checking for a moment and share with you an amazing story that actually became my biggest defeat this year — so far. In January a big retailer, Schlecker, went into insolvency- they could no longer pay their bills. One week later the daughter of the owner declared that even the wealth of the family had gone — no assets left, although they were believed to be billionaires. Very soon there were many rumours on where the family was keeping their assets. And whether they had transferred some of it in order to keep it — including their private estate.

But nobody investigated it — while the rumours where spread all over.

There is hardly any newspaper that did not repeat these rumours. Initially we did not touch the story, because we were afraid of too much competition.

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Three months later, I still wondered why it should be so difficult to get facts on who owns the estate and especially since when it was owned by that person. On June 6th I asked our trainee to call the cadastre office —Grundbuchamt - in order to request that info. The amazing part of the answer was not that they denied us access to the data, but that we were the first and only journalists who had called by then. That encouraged us to proceed, so we made a formal inquiry, got a formal denial and decided to go to court with that.

Whenever I suggest such an appeal in theory, journalists will reply that this will consume time and money. Here I can prove them wrong:.