RAT.HUB

YOUR START­UP PODCAST

RAT.HUB goes into the next round. In the RAT.HUB pod­cast series, Lin­da Rath talks to start­up foun­ders to find out how they think. This time she inter­view­ed Fre­de­rik Fischer.  Lin­da about Fre­de­rik Fischer: Today, I am joi­n­ed by Fre­de­rik Fischer. He is the foun­der and CEO of Neu­landia, a living and working model for the coun­try­si­de. 2014 […]

Lin­da on Mar­kus Becke­dahl: My guest today needs no intro­duc­tion and yet here are a few high­lights: I talk to the co-foun­­der of the re:publica con­fe­rence and the foun­der of netz​po​li​tik​.org. He wro­te the book Die Digi­ta­le Gesell­schaft (The Digi­tal Socie­ty), is a mem­ber of the Media Coun­cil of the Sta­te Media Aut­ho­ri­ty Ber­­lin-Bran­­den­­burg and was a mem­ber of […]

Lin­da about Ellen Hein­richs: She is the foun­der and CEO of the Bonn Insti­tu­te for Jour­na­lism and con­s­truc­ti­ve dia­log which sup­ports solu­­ti­ons-ori­en­­ted jour­na­lism by working with media com­pa­nies and rese­arch insti­tu­tes to ana­ly­ze the impact of con­s­truc­ti­ve approa­ches. I met Ellen more than a deca­de ago when we both work­ed for Deut­sche Wel­le. She hel­ped found the […]

Lin­da about Binoy Prab­ha­kar: Today, I am joi­n­ed by Binoy Prab­ha­kar. He is the exe­cu­ti­ve edi­tor at Money­con­trol, one of India’s lar­gest busi­ness news plat­form. Binoy is also a for­mer Seni­or Edi­tor at the The Eco­no­mic Times and was a fel­low at the Tow-Knight Cen­ter for Entre­pre­neu­ri­al Jour­na­lism in New York. Curr­ent­ly, he runs an effi­ci­ent news­room, working […]

Lin­da about Julia Hil­de­brand: Today, I am joi­n­ed by Julia Hil­de­brand. As part of the award-win­­ning Cor­rec­tiv team, Julia leads a pro­ject cal­led beabee. It is a tool that helps news­rooms turn audi­en­ces into enga­ged com­mu­ni­ties. Befo­re that, Julia had work­ed for the social start­up ChangeX in Dub­lin whe­re she deve­lo­ped com­­mu­­ni­­ty-sof­t­­wa­re that allows peo­p­le to start their […]

Lin­da about Maria­na San­tos: Today, I am joi­n­ed by Maria­na San­tos. She is a jour­na­list and foun­der of Chi­cas Pode­ro­sas, a non-pro­­fit orga­niza­ti­on that aims to empower women, jour­na­lists and the lea­der­ship of women in media. Chi­cas pro­vi­des trai­ning to have more lea­der­ship skills, to navi­ga­te bet­ter and to come up with one’s own sto­ry ide­as. Also, LGBTQ+ […]

Lin­da about Mer­cy Abang: It took me many moons to publish this epi­so­de (Mer­cy and I actual­ly tal­ked back in Sep­tem­ber 2021). Final­ly, I can share this inter­view with Mer­cy Abang! She is a Nige­ri­an jour­na­list living in Ber­lin. About 5 years ago, I met her in Bonn at a work­shop at Deut­sche Wel­le. She has free­lan­ced for the Asso­cia­ted Press, Al […]

Lin­da about Gaya­tri Para­mes­wa­ran: Today, I am joi­n­ed by Gaya­tri Para­mes­wa­ran. She is a jour­na­list and co-foun­­der of Nowhe­re Media, an immersi­ve sto­rytel­ling stu­dio that explo­res how you can achie­ve meaningful nar­ra­ti­ves through immersi­ve expe­ri­en­ces. Her pro­jects have not only been fea­tured at fes­ti­vals such as SXSW, Sun­dance and Venice film fes­ti­val. Her latest VR expe­ri­ence Kusunda […]

From Lin­da Rath about Aela Calan: I am very hono­red to be cal­ling Aela Cal­lan as my first guest on the second sea­son of my pod­cast RAT.HUB. Aela is an award-win­­ning jour­na­list and film­ma­ker, she work­ed as a for­eign cor­re­spon­dent at Al Jaze­era and pro­du­ced docu­men­ta­ries for Al Jazeera’s 101 East pro­gram. She was sel­ec­ted for a prestigious […]