Reporterfabrik – An online academy for journalism
Project Overview:
Want to improve your communication skills? Or learn more about traditional and social media? The “Reporterfabrik” (literally: reporter factory) is an online school for journalism, open to everyone interested, which provides a wide range of learning material: from professional writing, blogging, researching, interviewing, debating and photography to videos –online workshops cost between 5 and 25 euros.
“Readers are changing faster than we do”, said Cordt Schnibben in 2015, the chief editor of Spiegel magazine’s cultural section. Three years later, alongside David Schraven, managing director of the non-profit research centre CORRECTIV e.V., he founded the Reporterfabrik, a project that intends to smooth and shape everybody’s way into the editorial community.
The Reporterfabrik wants to foster the professional training of journalists and the general public, to improve their use of new digital possibilities of research, storytelling and publishing. The team behind the Reporterfabrik contacted us in 2018 in order to set up an LMS where they can offer their professional knowledge within online courses to their target audience. In spring 2019, the Reporterfabrik was supplemented by the „Bürgerakademie for Media Competence“ as a sister project, which is more strongly oriented towards the educational interests of citizens.
The solution
Abstract-Technology supports the Team since 2018 as a technical consultant and service provider. With our expertise in working with the Open Source LMS Open edX® platform, we delivere a custom, modern, flexible, and easy to use learning platform responding to their needs and goals.
The benefit
It is a cost-effective solution which allows portability and has backing support from the global active community as well as high security standards and DSGVO conformity.
Our deliverables in this project
We supported and still support the team by providing:
- Professional consultancy
- Open edX instance set-up
- Theme implementation according to the corporate brand
- Hosting, support and maintenance of the system
- Full localization in German
- Implementation of an ecommerce system
- Implementation of an analytics tool
- Microsite configuration
- Authors training and support in course content creation
- Ongoing consultancy and performance of further developments according to the project's needs and campaigns
2024 Correctiv launches Book Talk
The media organization Correctiv, together with journalist Cordt Schnibben, has launched the learning platform “Book Talk.” Its aim is to appeal to the interest in books among younger readers and to spark enthusiasm for contemporary and historically relevant fiction.
