German news website
Der Spiegel
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Type of site
| News website
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Available in
| German, English
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Headquarters
| Hamburg
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Country of origin
| Germany
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Owner
| Der Spiegel GmbH & Co. KG
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Chairperson
| Thomas Hass
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Managing director
| - Thomas Hass
- Stefan Ottlitz
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URL
| spiegel.de
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Commercial
| Yes
|
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Registration
| Optional
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Launched
| 25 October 1994
; 29 years ago
(
1994-10-25
)
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Current status
| Active
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Der Spiegel
(
lit.
'
The Mirror
'
) is a German
news website
. It was established in 1994 as
Spiegel Online
as a content
mirror
of the magazine
Der Spiegel
. In 1995, the site began producing original stories and it introduced
Spiegel Online International
for articles translated into English in 2004. The magazine and website were editorially aligned in 2019 and
Spiegel Online
was rebranded
Der Spiegel
in January 2020.
Company and editorial staff
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Regular staff includes 150 people in the
Hamburg
headquarters,
[1]
complemented by
freelancers
, and news bureaus both domestic and international. In the German capital,
Berlin
, 15 correspondents cover the German federal government, political parties, corporations and artists. The
Munich
and
Dusseldorf
offices have one correspondent each. There are journalists based in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Moscow, New Delhi and Istanbul. The online news staff also receives support from
Der Spiegel
magazine's network of correspondents in Germany and abroad.
History
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The news website first went up on 25 October 1994 under the name
Spiegel Online
,
[2]
[3]
[4]
making it the first online presence of an established news magazine, one day before the
Time
site.
Spiegel Online
started as a service on
CompuServe
.
[5]
The web domain spiegel.de was established one year later.
Spiegel Online
'
s content initially consisted of hand-picked articles from the print magazine. As early as 1995, however, original content first appeared in a section called "Scanner", which was only available online. In the following year,
Spiegel Online
was relaunched and commenced featuring breaking news as well.
[6]
Spiegel Online International
, a section featuring articles translated into English, was launched in autumn 2004.
[7]
Wolfgang Buchner was editor-in-chief of the magazine and website from September 2013 to December 2014. Buchner's former deputies, Florian Harms and Barbara Hans, headed
Der Spiegel
after Buchner left the company. On 13 January 2015, Harms was appointed sole editor-in-chief.
[8]
Following his departure on 6 December 2016, Hans was promoted to editor-in-chief.
[9]
In 2019, its editorial office was merged with the printed
Der Spiegel
.
[10]
In January 2020, the website was rebranded, now using the same media brand as the printed format.
[11]
Popularity
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Der Spiegel
is among the top 30 most visited websites in Germany,
[12]
with record profitability.
[13]
It is the most frequently quoted online media product in the country as of 2014.
[14]
See also
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References
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]
- ^
Spiegel-Gruppe:
Spiegel Online
Archived
5 September 2019 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
"Bereits am 25. Oktober 1994 konnte man auch den SPIEGEL im Internet finden"
.
Archived
from the original on 23 February 2014
. Retrieved
31 July
2011
.
- ^
Schaffner, Christina (2005). "Bringing a German Voice to English-speaking Readers: Spiegel International".
Language and Intercultural Communication
.
5
(2): 154?167.
doi
:
10.1080/14708470508668891
.
S2CID
143954235
.
- ^
Anne Penketh; Philip Oltermann; Stephen Burgen (12 June 2014).
"European newspapers search for ways to survive digital revolution"
.
The Guardian
. Paris, Berlin, Barcelona.
Archived
from the original on 17 July 2018
. Retrieved
7 January
2015
.
- ^
Bonisch, Julia. Meinungsfuhrer oder Popularmedium? Das journalistische Profil von Spiegel Online. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006.
- ^
Spiegel Online:
"Aussehen von
Spiegel Online
1996"
Archived
26 November 2018 at the
Wayback Machine
Spiegel
- ^
Greenslade, Roy (15 August 2006).
"Der Spiegel's English site seeks young recruits"
.
The Guardian
.
ISSN
0261-3077
.
Archived
from the original on 12 March 2017
. Retrieved
31 January
2019
.
- ^
Florian Harms ist neuer Chefredakteur von Spiegel Online
.
Archived
4 November 2018 at the
Wayback Machine
Pressemitteilung der Spiegel-Gruppe.
- ^
Huber, Joachim (6 December 2016).
"Uberraschend Chefredakteurin von 'Spiegel Online'
"
.
Der Tagesspiegel
(in German).
Archived
from the original on 14 April 2022
. Retrieved
4 July
2019
.
- ^
"Umstrukturierung beim "Spiegel": Bis alle Onliner in der Mitarbeiter KG sind, dauert es noch zehn Jahre | MEEDIA"
. 19 June 2019.
Archived
from the original on 12 April 2022
. Retrieved
16 January
2020
.
- ^
"Umfassender Relaunch: "Spiegel Online" ist Geschichte"
.
Archived
from the original on 12 April 2022
. Retrieved
16 January
2020
.
- ^
Top sites in Germany
Archived
6 July 2020 at the
Wayback Machine
- Alexa Rank
- ^
medienMITTWEIDA:
"Spiegel Online ist das Maß aller Dinge"
Archived
1 November 2014 at the
Wayback Machine
, 10 May 2007. The article reports figures for 2006, when
Spiegel Online
'
s
turnover
amounted to €15 million, yielding €2 million in earnings.
- ^
PMG-Pressemonitor: Meistzitierte nationale Medien (Top 30)
Archived
17 January 2014 at the
Library of Congress
Web Archives
External links
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