Chefrunde Study Tours (Crusa)

I have co-organized Chefrunde Study Tours together with tour leader Annette Milz since 2014. Together, we have brought delegations of C-level newsroom executives to San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Los Angeles and New York City, and met with a range of media institutions, startups, incubators, and technology companies. Not only do the delegates get a glimpse into the change and innovation processes in the United States, the U.S. companies gain valuable insights into the German media market and have made lasting contacts and profitable partnerships.

These international innnovation trips have included discussions with Arthur Gregg Sulzberger (New York Times), Jonah Peretti (Buzzfeed), Richard Gingras (Google), Richard Socher (Salesforce), Kara Swisher (Re/code), Albert Wenger (Union Square Ventures), Ben Lerer (Thrillist), Marty Baron (Washington Post), Matthew Kaminski (Politico), Casey Newton (The Verge), Nick Johnston (Axios), Betsy Reed (The Intercept), Jeff Jarvis (CUNY), Jeremy Caplan (Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism), Burt Herman, (hacks/hackers), Robert Rosenthal (Center for Investigative Reporting), Gideon Lichfield (Quartz), Max Read (Gawker), David Kirkpatrick (Techonomy), and many other technology and media luminaries.