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German media and technology journalist. Founding editor of piqd. Most of his piqs are digging into the new digital public sphere. How is the web changing public opinion? Who defines what's relevant and what's not? How can we make sure relevant information still finds an audience? How could alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and other commercial social networks look like?
Frederik is director of the media innovation think tank vocer.org. He's teaching "digital journalism" at the Hamburg Media School.
The Weekend Digest: Our Piqs Of The Week
How Gay People Are Being Killed And Imprisoned In Chechnya And What Is Done About It
Gay people are being incarcerated, tortured and killed in Chechnya. The reporters who broke the story had to flee the country.
‘Housing for All’. If By ‘All’ You Mean Foreign Investors
The property market in London is out of control. Foreign investors are one major propellant of this development.
Biometric Passports Scam In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Biometric passports in Congo cost $185. The same passport costs $110 in the US and $90 in the UK. There's a telling story behind this price gap.
New Research On LSD: Insight On Treating Psychiatric Disorders And Understanding Consciousness
LSD, a psychoactive drug of great importance in psychiatric research during the 50s and 60s, was banned after people started taking it as a recreational drug, and thus scientific studies about it were stopped. But lately it’s starting to be used in psychiatric research again, much to the scientists’ delight, because the things they discover are pretty groundbreaking.
How Afghan Refugees Have Become Bashar Al Assad's Cheap Cannon Fodder
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees fled to Iran. Now Iran is using them as cannon fodder in Syria to support its ally Bashar al Assad.
Introduced: Luis Eduardo Barrueto (Channel: Globalization and Politics)
Luis BARRUETO is a journalist from Guatemala, currently working in trade policy at the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA). Studied business and finance journalism at Aarhus University in Denmark and City University London.
Introduced: Patricia Alonso (Channel: Globalization and Politics)
Freelance journalist based in Istanbul. Keeping an eye on Turkish politics.