About Journalist

Journalist

journalist (subtitle "Das Medienmagazin") is the members' magazine of the Deutscher Journalisten-Verband (DJV): the specialist publication for journalists, published ten times a year in Bonn by the Journalismus3000 GmbH, the association's own media house. Since 1967 the magazine has served the DJV's members — around 87 percent of its readers belong to the association — with the media policy, the professional practice, and the debates of the journalism, issue after issue.

Overview

journalist appears ten times yearly as the DJV's Mitgliederheft: the media magazine for the journalists, the forum of the organized profession. The publisher is the DJV's Bundesvorstand (federal board); the editorial office sits at the DJV's Geschäftsstelle in Bonn, where the association's heart beats. The editor-in-chief and managing director is Matthias Daniel, leading the magazine and the media house in one hand. The ISSN: 0022-5576, the bibliographic identity of the journalists' magazine since the early years. The reach: around 32,000 readers, the organized journalists and the interested public, documented in the media data.

The magazine understands itself as the Fachpublikation für Journalisten: the specialist publication covering the media industry, the working conditions, the press law, the digital transformation, and the professional ethics. The members receive it as part of the DJV membership: alongside the press card, the legal protection, and the discounted insurances, the journalist subscription is one of the association's professional services.

The Members' Magazine

The members' magazine (Mitgliederheft) that the journalist has been since 1967 is the association's communicative backbone: the DJV informing its members, the members discussing the profession, the community building itself. Around 87 percent of the readers are DJV members: the magazine reaches the organized journalists, the freelancers and the employed, the print and the broadcast and the online.

The members' magazine serves the membership: the subscription included in the dues, the delivery ten times yearly, the archive online. The magazine's topics serve the members' needs: the tariffs for the employed, the honoraria for the freelancers, the press law for all, the digital skills for the future. The members' voices fill the pages: the letters, the debates, the reports from the districts. In the association where the members are the profession, the magazine is the mirror: the German journalism seeing itself, ten times a year.

History

journalist's history begins in 1951: the first issue of the journalists' magazine. Since 1967 it has been the DJV's official members' magazine. The production history documents the media industry's changes: produced by the Verlag Rommerskirchen in Remagen on behalf of the DJV until 2016, then by the Verlag New Business in Hamburg until the end of 2019, and since the January/February 2020 issue by the Verlag Journalismus3000 in Bonn.

The decades span the journalism's transformations: from the print era to the digital, from the secure employment to the freelance precarity, from the national to the platform. The magazine has accompanied the DJV's advocacy: the press freedom, the collective agreements, the copyright, the working conditions. The 2020 move to the dedicated Journalismus3000 GmbH marked the professionalization: the magazine as the Bonn-based media house's core product.

Coverage and Content

The media-policy coverage is the core: the press freedom, the media legislation, the public broadcasting, the platform regulation. The professional-practice coverage serves the craft: the research, the interviewing, the writing, the photography, the data journalism. The working-conditions coverage serves the livelihood: the tariffs, the freelancing, the honoraria, the social security, the legal protection.

The debates shape the profession: the DJV's positions, the members' voices, the controversial topics. The service covers the membership: the press cards, the Bildportal (the image marketing platform), the guidelines for the journalistic work (e.g., the authorization of interviews). The magazine is the association's forum: where the DJV informs, where the members discuss.

The DJV

The Deutscher Journalisten-Verband that publishes the journalist is Germany's journalists' association: independent of the German Trade Union Confederation (whose journalists' organization is the dju in ver.di). The DJV's 15 Landesverbände organize the members regionally; the seven-member Bundesvorstand leads federally. The members engage voluntarily: in the districts, the state associations, the federal association, and the specialist committees by profession and media genre.

The DJV's services define the membership: the interest representation, the information and counseling, the conferences and congresses, the legal protection, the discounted insurances, the press cards, the journalist subscription, and the DJV-Bildportal. The journalist magazine is the communicative backbone: informing the members, shaping the positions, building the community.

The Media Magazine

The "Medienmagazin" that the journalist subtitles itself is the program: the magazine about the media, for the media people. The media industry's transformations are the beat: the newspaper crisis, the broadcasting reform, the platform power, the AI disruption. The magazine covers what the journalists live: the newsroom closures, the tariff negotiations, the press freedom threats, the new tools.

The media magazine serves the orientation: in the industry where the change is the constant, the journalist explains the change. The practitioners get the practice: the research techniques, the interview guidelines, the data tools, the mobile reporting. The freelancers get the business: the honoraria, the contracts, the copyright, the marketing via the Bildportal. The employed get the rights: the tariffs, the works councils, the social security. In the media where the journalists are the story, the journalist is the storyteller: the media magazine, ten times yearly, from Bonn, for the journalists, always, ten times yearly, without fail, today and tomorrow, always, ten times yearly, today.

Organization and Ownership

journalist is published by the Journalismus3000 GmbH, Bonn (since 2020); the Herausgeber is the Bundesvorstand of the Deutscher Journalisten-Verband. The editor-in-chief and managing director is Matthias Daniel. The editorial office is at the DJV's Bonn Geschäftsstelle. The bibliographic data: ISSN 0022-5576. The archive at journalist.de documents the recent issues.

The Bonn Base

The Bonn base that the journalist has kept is the DJV's geography: the federal association's Geschäftsstelle in Bonn, the editorial office alongside, the Journalismus3000 GmbH in the former capital. The Bonn location reflects the history: the DJV's federal presence, the proximity to the politics, the Rhineland media landscape.

The Bonn publishing via the Journalismus3000 GmbH since 2020 professionalized the magazine: the dedicated media company, the managing director doubling as the editor-in-chief, the focused product. The previous producers — Rommerskirchen in Remagen until 2016, New Business in Hamburg until 2019 — were the commissioned publishers; the Journalismus3000 is the DJV's own vehicle. In the publishing where the associations often outsource, the DJV insourced: the journalist as the Bonn-based house product, ten times yearly, for the members.

Digital Presence

The journalist.de website is the digital home: the magazine's online presence with the current articles and the archive (journalist.de/startseite/archiv). The DJV's website (djv.de) presents the association: the press releases, the positions, and the services. The magazine's digital extends the print: the online articles, the newsletters, and the social media.

For the journalists, the journalist is the magazine: the DJV's members' magazine since 1967, ten times yearly, the media magazine for the profession, from Bonn to the members everywhere. With the Bonn editorial office and the Journalismus3000 publishing, the journalist serves the German journalism: the media policy, the professional practice, and the debates, into the future, without compromise, today and tomorrow, always, without fail, ten times yearly, from Bonn.