Wednesday, 24. September 2014, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Cultural pessimists like to see new technologies as the death of newspaper journalism. Yet digitalisation is one of the greatest opportunities for journalism if - under fair competitive conditions - publishers and journalists do the right thing: concentrate on old qualities. In the end, it's all about whether you have something important to say. And whether we succeed in emancipating journalistic content from paper.
Mathias Döpfner was born in 1963. He studied musicology, German and theatre studies in Frankfurt and Boston. He began his career as a journalist in 1982 at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". From 1988 to 1990 he was managing director of a PR agency. In 1992, he worked on the staff of the International Board of Gruner+Jahr Publishing in Paris, and later became assistant to the Gruner+Jahr CEO in Hamburg. Further journalistic positions were editor-in-chief of the "Wochenpost", Berlin (1994-1996), and editor-in-chief of the "Hamburger Morgenpost" (1996-1998). Since 1998 Döpfner has been working for Axel Springer, initially as editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Die Welt". Since July 2000 Dr Mathias Döpfner has been a member of the Executive Board and since January 2002 Chairman of the Executive Board of Axel Springer SE.