Carsten Fiedler strengthens new editorial board - chaired by Florian Festl

With a joint BurdaForward editorial board chaired by Florian Festl (editor-in-chief FOCUS online), BurdaForward is intensifying the journalistic cooperation between our digital brands. The publisher is bringing Carsten Fiedler (53) on board as a further editor-in-chief within the new commitee.

On November 1, Fiedler, currently Editor-in-Chief of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, will join BurdaForward. Carsten Fiedler's area of responsibility will produce extensive and deeply researched political and social content such as reports, commentaries and analyses for the Burda subsidiary's major digital brands. He will also be responsible for the further development of critical-constructive journalism at FOCUS online and the new climate brand FOCUS online Earth.

Daniel Steil, Chief Content Officer at BurdaForward: "Our claim is to report in a fact-based and solution-oriented way - all the more so in turbulent times that provide an ideal breeding ground for populists. Carsten Fiedler is a first-class journalist with a great feel for social and political developments. I'm delighted that he will soon be part of the management team to further develop BurdaForward's journalistic offerings along our Constructive strategy."

Bundling of editorial management under the leadership of Florian Festl

Parallel to the start of Carsten Fiedler, BurdaForward is dovetailing the editorial management level even more closely. The newly formed BurdaForward Editorial Board will manage and be responsible for BurdaForward's news, background and opinion reporting across brands. The board will be led by Florian Festl, who will chair the editorial board in addition to his role as FOCUS-online editor-in-chief. In addition to Festl and Fiedler, Alina Bähr (Editor-in-Chief of Bunte.de) and Niels Held (Editor-in-Chief of CHIP.de) will also be part of the new board.

Great award, great commitment, especially in the sense that positive processes should be much more in the media. I think that's exactly what we need more than ever before.“

Constructive journalism and solution-oriented contributions are more important than ever - BurdaForward has made it its mission with the Constructive World Award to give them the attention and recognition they deserve.