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Virologists have become media celebrities since Corona.
They play on media surfaces with very different personalities, but always with a lot of sense of mission.
Conversely, the media offer scientists many opportunities to explain the virus and the pandemic in order to at least fill a little the vacuum of our ignorance.
One of the best-known virologists, who is also actively looking for the media stage, is Hendrik Streeck, Director of the Institute for Virology and HIV Research at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn.
Streeck is a welcome guest on talk shows and interview partners.
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Now he has written the book “Hotspot”, started a podcast of the same name in cooperation with RTL with Katja Burkard as co-presenter, and then shot a documentary for ZDF.
In this episode of “Media Week” we talk about Streeck and the media - and the question of how popular scientists have to become in order to explain a dangerous virus to the world.
Also in this issue of “Medien-Woche”: The information war over the Russian broadcaster RT Deutsch.
Google, the “Privacy Sandbox” project and privacy.
And: the controversial media funding concept of the federal government.
"The Media Week"
is a podcast about the world of media and its makers.
Christian Meier, editor at WELT, and Stefan Winterbauer, editor of the Meedia industry service, talk every Friday about the most important topics of the week.
Profound, analytical, entertaining.
Feedback to: medien-woche@welt.de
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