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I enjoy support journalism which is not commercially driven and am looking for European media. In Germany there is e.g. Jung und Naiv, taz or Riffreporter. But they all have a focus on german politics mainly i want more EU or Europe Politics. I thought about Guardian - they at least try to cover some European stuff.

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[-] snuggles@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

I really like the Guardian, way more than German media tbh. It feels like they've cut back so much on journalism in Germany that there's no proper reporting anymore. I do read the public news (ie deutschlandfunk) just to get an overview of what's happening, but they don't have good indepth coverage. taz may be independent but they're very biased towards the far left. If you're aware of that and take it into account then they're alright, but take everything with a huge grain of salt. Unfortunately I can't really recommend any German media, I mostly read Guardian and sometimes BBC tbh.

[-] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I think "far left" and "biased" is a little exaggurated.

It is a left-wing media but there are no closer ties to the Party the-left. Actually a founder of taz was a green Party member: https://taz.de/Zum-Todestag-von-Hans-Christian-Stroebele/!5952742/

[-] snuggles@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah I didn't mean they're associated with the party Die Linke in particular, just the general political tendency. :) Nothing wrong with that either, I just think it's important to be aware of that this reflects in both the articles that I often find quite opinionated and also the selection of news/topics they do or don't report about, so if you want full coverage and balanced news this shouldn't be your exclusive news source but combined with others.

[-] dynamoMaus@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

I do agree mostly but:

nothing should be your exclusive newssource.
there is no such thing as journalism without opinion. Writing a story always implies your opinion "this is important".