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News agency from space
How the MediaTech Hub start-up Vertical52 uses satellite data for journalism It’s hard to imagine satellite TV, navigation devices, weather forecasts and, of course, the military without them: more than 5,500 satellites are orbiting the Earth in space - including about 500 Earth observation satellites. Space agencies like the ESA or satellite operators like Planet […]
The Swarm is coming
Why sound and creative processes in post-production are playing a special role in the bestseller adaptation A global bestseller running to 900 pages, published 20 years ago and long considered unfilmable: Frank Schätzing’s science fiction thriller “The Swarm” has now premiered as a six-part series at this year’s Berlinale. Boasting a budget of 40 million Euros, the series is […]
Training mental wellbeing or leadership skills
the Savvi app offers digital training on the job Professional life doesn’t stand still and the demand for further education is great. A recent study on further education by the digital association Bitkom shows that 31 per cent of respondents invested more of their working time into further training since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. […]
Strong collaboration to address skills shortage
The Media Collective training network is committed to developing new professional training programmes for the audiovisual industry throughout Germany. They are missing - from all sides, skilled workers. And their much-cited shortage has also existed in the audiovisual industry for some time. It’s not only the demographic change that’s leaving gaps. The streaming productions, which […]
Playwall instead of Paywall
Startup Snaque enables premium content without a paywall Paid content is the predominant topic in the publishing industry - and rightly so. For far too long, media companies have relied solely on reach and free content on the web. Whether leading media or regional news portals: paywalls have now been established almost everywhere, allowing only registered […]