The Die Welt journalist Deniz Yücel was arrested a year ago on Wednesday by Turkish authorities. Twelve months later he is still in jail despite never having been charged with a crime.
German media groups protested on Wednesday after government authorities at last week's G20 summit suddenly withdrew the accreditations of 32 journalists on unspecified security grounds.
Update: Germany on Friday demanded access to a female German journalist it said had been held in police custody in Turkey since last month without consular representation.
The German magazine Bunte was ordered Friday to pay €50,000 in damages plus legal fees to Michael Schumacher for claiming the former five-time Formula One world champion could walk again.
A court in Istanbul on Monday ordered provisional detention for a correspondent of the German newspaper Die Welt, a move that drew a stern rebuke from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
German organizers of a meeting of European right-wing populist and anti-immigration parties said on Thursday they would bar a number of journalists they deem hostile, sparking protests from media groups.
Germany's biggest media gala kicked into its usual glamorous swing last Friday, but now it is kicking up a storm after an event publication satirically advertised 'swimming lessons for refugees on the Mediterranean'.
In the wake of Donald Trump's US election victory, right-wing US internet site Breitbart News Network confirmed they are planning to expand into Germany. But they could struggle to adapt, an analyst tells The Local.
Germany's radio and television broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Tuesday condemned the confiscation of an interview it had conducted with a Turkish minister as a "blatant violation" of press freedom.
The two German journalists of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily behind the Panama Papers revelations say they are surprised by the global shockwaves the leak caused and promised more sensational disclosures.
Germany's top diplomat in Ankara has been summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry for a telling-off after public broadcaster NDR mocked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a comic song.
An accidental discharge ruined the Bremerhaven police department's plan to demonstrate its firearms on Tuesday, as the stray bullet wounded a local journalist in the thigh.
Police arrested two people in Dresden on Monday evening after a cameraman was attacked by anti-Islam demonstrators on the fringes of a much smaller gathering than recent weeks.
German publishing giant Axel Springer has bought a majority stake in business news site Business Insider (BI) for $343 million (€306 million), the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald reported on Thursday that the USA told the German government it would cut off intelligence sharing if the country offered NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum.
Police in Dortmund are investigating after several journalists from Dortmund received death notices with their names on them earlier this week. The Local spoke to one of those journalists and police about the growing neo-Nazi threat in the Ruhr-area city.
If you read reports from Russian media, you might be forgiven for thinking that Professor Professor Lorenz Haag from Chemnitz (so well-qualified he gets the title twice) is a titan of academia.
Top German tabloid <i>Bild</i> could cut up to 200 jobs at its print edition to make savings worth €20 million, it emerged on Saturday. Planned restructuring could force some print edition staff to accept less favourable conditions.
Two new faces on the media landscape were unveiled this week, with <i>Der Spiegel</i> news magazine appointing a new editor-in-chief and US-export Huffington Post announcing the launch of a German site.
Veteran German reporter Jörg Armbruster, who was shot while filming a documentary in Syria last month says he will not return to Aleppo where the attack took place.
Two German journalists held by Iran for more than four months after entering the country on tourists visas were released on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed.
This week, the shadowy organisation Wikileaks caused a sensation – and a scandal – by publishing 92,000 classified US documents on the Afghanistan war. Berliner Daniel Schmitt is one of just two public faces to this mysterious group of former hackers. He spoke to The Local.
