Media
Links

• Blogs
• Institutions, Associations and Organizations
• Internet
• Press and Journalism
• Radio and Television
• Web Portals and Directories

Blogs

• BILDblog Web log that examines the false reports that are to be found in the German tabloid "Bild"
• German Blog Charts The most popular German blogs
• netzpolitik.org Web log on political subjects in the digital age
• netzwertig.com Blog about the German media scene
• Spreeblick Web log on subjects from pop to politics
• Technorati Blog finder

Institutions, Associations and Organizations

• Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons Information on youth media protection and and media education
• Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Providers Organisation with the task of protecting children and young people from illegal and dangerous contents in the Internet
• Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research Research institute with a focus on of current developments in the media
• Initiative D21 German privat-public partnership to accelerate the transformation of Germany from an industrial society to an information society
• Institute for Media Research and Media Education (JFF) Research institute in Munich in the fields of media skills of children and young peaople
• Competence Center Technology – Diversity – Equal Chances Projects cultivating the equality of opportunity in education, profession and science
• Media Days in Munich International Convention
• Network of Multimedia Resource Centres Media network of archives, libraries, documentation offices, museums, research institutes etc.
• Reporters without Borders International network fighing for the freedom of the press and opinion

Internet

• ard-zdf-onlinestudie.de Annual surveys on the usage of the Internet in Germany
• DENIC Reserved domain names in Germany
• Deutschland Online (PDF) Annual surveys on the usage of the Internet in Germany
• Deutschland sicher im Netz e.V. Initiative promoting the safe use of the Internet and information technology
• ENISA: Information Network and Information Security Agency Centre of Excellence for the EU Member States and EU Institutions in Network and Information Security, giving expert advice and recommendations
• First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the Internet Internet online magazine, newsletter
• fragFINN.de German web portal for children
• Internet ABC A guided introduction to the Internet for children
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Organisation with the task of managing the Top Level Domains
• Internet Domain Survey Survey of Internet hosts
• Internet Provider in Deutschland Internet providers in Germany, including Internet-by-Call
• Internet World Stats World Internet Users and Population Stats
• irights.info: Urheberrecht in der digitalen Welt Information on copyright questions concerning the digital world
• Jakob Nielsen's Website Information around his benchmark study on "Designing Web Usability"
• Netplanet Web lexicon
• SELFHTML HTML compendium incl. Kurzreferenz
• Shareware.com Software archive by category
• Digital Opportunities Foundation The Foundation works to help socially and media-disadvantaged social groups get access to the Internet.
• Tucows Internet software archive by category
• W3B-Umfragen Current poll results on Internet usage in Germany

Press and Journalism

• Bundesverband deutscher Zeitungsverleger (BDZV) German Association of Newspaper Propriators: Incl. Newspapers on the Web
• ddp Nachrichtenagentur German news service
• German Press Agency (dpa) Transregional and local news, photo database for a fee
• Deutscher Journalistenverband Association of German Journalists: Incl. photographers' database
• German Press Council Press Council: Freedom of the press, press codex in Germany
• Deutschland online Forum on politics, culture and business; online version of the magazine "Deutschland"
• German Newspapers and Periodicals Annotated database
• Deutschsprachige Zeitungen weltweit German ethnic newspapers and radio chanels worldwide
• Die Tageszeitung (taz) Free online archive (the last 6 months)
  RSS-Feeds
• Dossier Journalism in Germany Dossier about the following subjects: freedom of the press, web journalism, changes in the media world, cultural journalism, journalistic training etc.
• Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd) Protestant press service: Information about church and religion, culture, media, education, society etc.
• Focus Online Online archive free of charge since 1993
  RSS-Feeds
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Archive provided for a fee since 1993
  RSS-Feeds
• Frankfurter Rundschau Online Free archive of the past 14 days, charge for database of all articles since 1991
  RSS-Feeds
• Freitag - Die Ost-West-Wochenzeitung Free online archive
• Federal Association of Youth Press Umbrella organization for youth press including a web portal for young media makers
• Links zu Lehr- und Forschungseinrichtungen auf dem Gebiet Journalistik Links to study and research organisations in the field of journalism
• Netzeitung.de Daily online newspaper
  RSS-Feeds
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) Free monthly archive, English Window with selected articles
  RSS-Feeds
• News Aktuell Media information source for press and business, dpa-reports arranged by columns
  RSS-Feeds
• Print Online Data from the German print media
• Spiegel Online Free online archive: Spiegel Wissen
  RSS-Feeds
• Stern Online Weekly magazine
  RSS-Feeds
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Online (SZ) Incl. Jetzt: Das Jugendmagazin
  RSS-Feeds
• Tagesspiegel Online archive since 1996 (only the last 30 days are free of charge)
  RSS-Feeds
• The Local – Germany's News in English News from Germany in English
• Verband deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) German Association of Magazine Propriators: Incl. Database of German Magazines (PZ-Online)
• Welt Online Free online archive since May 1995, career world online, literary world
  RSS-Feeds
• Zeit Online Weekly newspaper, free online archive since 1946
  RSS-Feeds

Radio and Television

• Adolf Grimme Award Germany's most reputed award for quality television
• ALM - Association of Regulatory Authorities for Broadcasting Complete link and address list of all regulatory authorities
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fernsehforschung (AGF) Viewing rates for the German television market
• Arte European Culture Channel; French-German collaboration with further European partners: RTBF (Belgium), SRG SSR idée suisse (Switzerland), TVE (Spain), TVP (Poland), ORF (Austria), YLE (Finnland), NPS (Netherlands)
  RSS-Feeds
• Federal Association of Public Access Channels List of public-access radio and television channels
• German Public Television (ARD) Links to regional radio and TV stations: Bayerisches Fernsehen, Hessisches Fernsehen, Mitteldeutsches Fernsehen, Norddeutsches Fernsehen, Radio Berlin Brandenburg, Radio Bremen, Saarländisches Fernsehen, Südwestfernsehen, Westdeutsches Fernsehen
  Tagesschau
  kultur.ARD.de
• Deutsche Welle News and background information in more than 30 languages
  You can subscribe to different DW Newsletter
  RSS-Feeds
• Deutscher Fernsehpreis Joint award by ARD, ZDF, RTL and SAT.1
• Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Frankfurt/Main und Babelsberg German Broadcast Archive: collects and preserves recordings on behalf of German radio stations (public-service); incl. Netzwerk Mediatheken
• Deutschlandradio Transregional radio station
  RSS-Feeds
• Digital Radio Information about the new technology known as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)
• Voluntary Self-Control TV (FSF) Association with the task of examining whether TV movies and programmes are suitable for young people or not
• Internationale Funkausstellung International Broadcasting Exhibition, September 4 to September 9, 2009 in Berlin
• KIKA Kinderkanal Channel for Children
• Live Radio Stations: Germany Useful collection of German radio stations on the Internet; database of 3000 radio stations worldwide
• ORF - Österreichischer Rundfunk Transregional radio and television station
• Phoenix News and documentary channel
• Prix Jeunesse International Bi-anual competition for theChildren's television award, last Munich 2006
• SRG SSR idée suisse – Swiss Public Broadcasting Organisation Transregional radio and television station
• Televizion Reports and analyses on children´s and youth television
• German Public Television (ZDF) ZDF news: heute
  RSS-Feeds
• 3Sat Culture Channel

Web Portals and Directories

• www.deutschland.de The official and independent portal of Germany
• Young Germany Portal für deutschlandinteressierte junge Menschen mit Informationen zu Studien- und Arbeitsmöglichkeiten, Wissenschaft & Forschung, Leben in Deutschland
• Zentralarchiv deutschsprachiger Auslandsmedien (ZADAM) Archives of German language and German ethnic newspapers, radio and TV broadcasts worldwide: research service and information lists (for pay)