The Market of Political Online Publications of FRG: the Current State and Perspectives

This final qualifying researchis a comprehensive analysis of the media market of print Internet publications in Germany, their impact on the political agenda of the internal policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as on the modern civil society of the united Germany. It was formed in 1990, approximately immediately after the unification of the two German states - the FRG and the GDR, but its origins go back, first of all, in the formation of modern media groups and print holding groups, which were formed immediately after the end of the Second World War. The print media market in Germany is represented primarily by a huge number of printed regional periodicals, as well as their web versions, in contrast to the modern Internet publications in Russia, which were created from scratch in the early 2010s. This market trend is due to the high level of loyalty of the local population to the information published in the regional media, and the high stability of political institutions and the activity of civil society in Germany, in part due to the modern legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany in relation to the media. This made it possible to create a free market for extensive periodicals with a small share of federal newspapers and magazines. Together with the major media outlets mentioned above, independent news aggregators in German are actively developing in Germany. They operate on a crowdfunding business model, i.e. funded by active subscribers who purchase a subscription at the media launch stage and get full access to information for a fixed monthly fee. They have been developing especially actively in recent years, and although their coverage is significantly inferior to large publications, journalists themselves perceive them as one of the most promising areas of work - also because they provide the greatest creative freedom for research and analytical work.