Media organisations have launched innovative ways to engage their readers: by bringing them into controversial debates, both among themselves and with the respective newsrooms. The idea is to reconnec...
Philip Faigle
special projects editor Zeit Online
Philip Faigle is a Special Projects Editor at ZEIT ONLINE, Germany’s leading news website. Since 2019, he has been the head of the newsroom’s section for special projects and longreads named X. In 2021, he initiated The 49, a project that was built around a group of 49 people that statistically resemble Germany. 30,000 readers had signed up for the project, and a software calculated the ideal set of participants, who then engaged in group discussions for roughly six months. Philip is one of the founders of the debating project Deutschland spricht and the international platform My Country Talks. Together with Jana Simon, he hosts the podcast Why do you think that?, in which people with opposing politic viewpoints and from diverse social backgrounds discuss political issues.
Our societies feel more fragmented than ever and it’s not just tabloids who seem to be stoking the flames of discord and division. In the wake of the Christchurch terror attack, the UK's head of cou...
Communities across the globe are becoming increasingly divided across political and ideological lines. This polarization is partially related to the normalcy of getting one's news from friends and fam...