tagesschau

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tagesschau.de is an ARD news website. It is the online counterpart to the news programme Tagesschau, which is broadcast several times a day on ARD. The website has existed since 1996 and was initially only used to archive current Tagesschau programmes. The website now provides the latest news from Germany and abroad. tagesschau.de is edited by ARD-aktuell, a joint editorial team of all state broadcasters under the leadership of NDR. The content of tagesschau.de can also be accessed via its own app.

Key Facts

Audience Share<0.01%
Ownership TypePublic
Geographic CoverageTransnational
Content TypeFree
Passive Transparency
upon request, ownership data is easily available from the company/channel

Ownership

Ownership Structure tagesschau.de is managed by the editorial team of ARD-aktuell, a joint newsroom of the ARD broadcasters. The NDR is in charge of this. Tagesschau.de does not have an owner in the traditional sense, as the website is part of the public service media offering.
Voting Rights The ARD newsroom makes direct decisions independently. However, decisions that entail financial burdens for ARD members are made jointly. The ARD Members' Assembly (Intendantenrunde) is primarily responsible for this, but far-reaching changes may also require the approval of the committees of the individual broadcasters (committee reservation). Resolutions of the General Assembly of Members should generally be unanimous, whereby each broadcasting organisation is de facto entitled to one vote, as the passage in the ARD statutes that weights votes according to economic strength is not applied.
Individual Owner

Media Companies / Groups

Facts

Founding Year1996
Founder
  • Robert Amlung
    worked as an editor for ARD from 1991 to 1998 and was the founder of the Tagesschau website in 1995. Initially, the site was intended to archive the current Tagesschau programmes. As the first editor of tagesschau.de, Amlung was responsible for the online coverage of the Hamburg state elections in 1997. In 1998 he moved to ARTE, and since 2001 he has been working for ZDF, where he most recently headed the main editorial department for new media. He has been ZDF's digital strategy officer since 2008.
CEO
  • Joachim Knuth
    has been the director general of NDR since 2020 and is responsible for the Tagesschau production on behalf of ARD. Knuth has worked for NDR since 1985, initially as an editor and from 2008 as Programme Director Radio. From 2012 to 2019, he was Managing Director of NDR Media GmbH. He is also a member of the supervisory board of several NDR subsidiaries such as Studio Hamburg GmbH.
Editor-In-Chief
  • Juliane Leopold
    is responsible for the content of tagesschau.de as Editor-in-Chief Digital. She took over the position in 2019; Leopold had previously been Editorial Director of tagesschau.de since 2018. From 2014 to 2016, she was Editor-in-Chief of the newly founded German Buzzfeed spin-off.
Other Important People
  • Marcus Bornheim
    has been the first editor-in-chief of the ARD-aktuell editorial team since 2019, which is responsible for both the news programme Tagesschau and the online service tagesschau.de. Previously, he had been the second editor-in-chief in the same editorial department since 2017, and from 2011 to 2017 Bornheim worked as an editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  • Helge Fuhst
    second editor-in-chief of ARD-aktuell since 2019. From 2018 to 2019, he was Programme Director of Phoenix. He has been one of the rotating presenters of tagesthemen since 2020.
ContactNDR/tagesschau.de
Hugh-Greene-Weg 1
22529 Hamburg
Germany
040 / 4156-0
tagesschau.de
RevenueMissing Data
Operating ProfitMissing Data
Advertising (in % of total funding) 0 (Advertising ban)
Market ShareMissing Data
Headlines
Meta DataThe share of the online audience refers to the share of unique users, was surveyed by Nielsen and retrieved via KEK. The date of the survey is unknown.
Financial data is indicated as "Missing data", as a breakdown of finances is only provided at broadcaster level. Individual data on broadcasters is not published.
Comment on the transparency level:
As it is not possible to categorise the transparency level for public service media in terms of ownership structures, the availability of information on the supervisory and control bodies as well as information on their members and transparency with regard to corporate shareholdings were included in the assessment
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