The main objective is to provide German and Dutch citizens living in the border region with more and more relevant news from their own border region. Cooperation between German and Dutch media will strengthen local and inter-local journalism in the border region, actively create and exchange neighboring country content and highlight themes that characterize border regions. Citizens from the border region are thus served with cross-border news from both their own and the border-neighboring region. During the project time, the aim is to produce around 3,500 cross-border publications.
Journalism on a local scale is under pressure.
The project partners reach a total weekly online reach of 1,053,832 people and reach a circulation of 590,090 households through the print media.
Large publishers are increasingly focused on economic growth, and local/regional journalism is shrinking as a result. On the other hand, reliable independent journalism is mentioned in many social and political debates as essential for the functioning of a democracy. Through cooperation between media organizations on both sides of the border, this project aims to lay a solid foundation for German-Dutch regional journalism in the border region. Citizens need news and information for their own level of knowledge. The media partners are complementary in terms of geographical target group and through the connection of joint production and learning in this project, the German-Dutch media partners want to permanently perpetuate the provision of news in the interest of citizens.
The project is aimed at information provision for citizens. Through a field lab, that citizen also gets an important and active role in the project. They ensure that journalistic themes actually originate from the capillaries of society in the border region.
The Fieldlab is pure citizen participation; different currents form a citizens’ editorial. The Fieldlab links media with citizens in the Euregion.
