Interviewed by
Anna Ernest
Hamburg faces a difficult future: On Tuesday, Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe announced that 23 magazines and 700 jobs in Gruner + Jahr’s magazine business were to be cut. How can the Hanseatic city deal with this? An interview with media senator Carsten Brosda (SPD) about the turbulent past of the traditional publisher, the possibilities of political help – and the mistakes that the media industry makes.