Germany: Evaluating alternatives to finance quality journalism

Abstract

Since the Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional daily newspaper based in Frankfurt/Main with two regional and one nationwide issues, has recently gone bankrupt, and the Financial Times Deutschland, a financial newspaper based in Hamburg, has issued its final copy on December 7, 2012, Germany experiences a transition toward an outright structural crisis of its print media. This "crisis” also made clear that the time has now come for effective leadership on the side of publishers and policymakers.