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According to an ARD report, the Berlin-Mitte district office prohibited the “Tagesschau” from broadcasting a joint press conference between the authority and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) live on the Internet.
A study on the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus should be reported at the press conference on Wednesday.
The "Tagesschau" wanted to broadcast this press conference, which took place as a video conference due to the corona pandemic, as a live stream on the Internet, reported "tagesschau.de".
The district office of Berlin-Mitte, however, had forbidden the planned live broadcast with references to open data protection reasons and questions of copyright.
In the justification letter from the authority it said, "In our opinion, a declaration of consent from all participants would be required, who would have to approve the recording and the subsequent publication of some passages, if they wanted to give them permission to record and publish".
This can no longer be achieved.
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The digital editor-in-chief of ARD-aktuell, Juliane Leopold, criticized the authority and spoke of a “dangerous precedent”: “The corona pandemic affects all areas of life.
We want and have to inform people about this as well as possible and support them to get an idea for themselves. ”According to the report, the German Association of Journalists (DJV) criticized the fact that a press conference is not a private chat and that outsiders are not concerned.
The district office later stated: "In order to allow an even larger public to participate in the presentation of the events, it would have been desirable to be able to follow this press conference via a live stream." But this was not due to "lack of experience with online press conferences in the district office" was intended, none of the participants was informed about the possibility of a live stream.
It is due to the short-term nature of the request from the “Tagesschau” that the district office, after consulting the RKI, could not agree to a broadcast because the participants' consent could not be requested and documented at such short notice ”.