Preis für FOCUS online Reportage

“Eine Krankheit wie vom Teufel erfunden” - So lautet der Titel der FOCUS-online-Reportage von Bernd Hauser und Sascha Montag, die jetzt mit dem DGA-Journalistenpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Im Rahmen der FOCUS-online-Konstruktivserie “12 Frauen, 12 Ideen” berichteten sie über den Kampf der nepalesischen Mikrobiologin Deena Shrestha gegen die tropische Krankheit Elefantiasis, bei der ein Fadenwurm das Lymphsystem befällt und Gliedmaßen grotesk anschwellen lässt. Die vor allem in ärmeren Regionen verbreitete Krankheit führt zu großem Leid und hemmt die Entwicklung dieser Länder.

Highlights of the Constructive World Award

A few weeks have passed since the Constructive World Awards and we are still overwhelmed by the impressions and feedback we have received since then.

Constructive World Award: These are the nominees

FOCUS online, the news portal of the publishing house BurdaForward (including Chip.de, Bunte.de, TV Spielfilm), launched the Constructive World Award at the beginning of this year. The award is intended to honor the social and journalistic work of those who think constructively and move our world forward. Nearly 100 applications were received. Now the nominees are being announced.

12 women, 12 ideas

This Tuesday, FOCUS online is launching a large-scale series of reports on female scientists from the Global South. The researchers portrayed in the series are working across continents to find solutions to humanity's biggest problems, such as combating disease or deadly hunger.

Auf einen Kaffee mit der Redaktion

Nähe schaffen, digitale Medien greifbar machen, Bedürfnisse verstehen: Als wir vor einigen Wochen unser News-Café im Herzen des Münchner Glockenbachviertels eröffnet haben, war es uns vor allem ein Anliegen mit den Menschen, die unsere Nachrichten konsumieren, in Kontakt zu treten. Was bewegt sie? Was wünschen sie sich von digitalen News-Angeboten? Wie können wir im Alltag sinnvoll unterstützen?

Vaccination offensive against omicron wave: FOCUS Online and antoni launch digital Infopoint

FOCUS Online becomes more constructive with AI

FOCUS Online is the first German news portal to use an in-house developed tool based on artificial intelligence to make its content more constructive in the long term. The "Constructive Score" acts as a new metric in the daily editorial routine of FOCUS Online and provides the BurdaForward brand with live information about how solution-oriented the content on the portal is designed. With success: on the FOCUS Online homepage alone, the articles have increased in their constructiveness by more than 10 percent since the score went live in the middle of last year.

Joining forces against the Corona Blues

Usually, Advent is a time of coming together. This year, however, people are encouraged to isolate themselves and keep their distance. The lockdown is hitting Germany hard. How can we nevertheless help people feel hope, feel less lonely and move closer together, at least a little, from within their own four walls at home? That's what colleagues at BurdaForward asked themselves. Joining forces, the teams went on air on this fourth Sunday of Advent on Focus Online, Bunte.de, Chip, TV Spielfilm, FitForFun and the other portals in a nine-hour livestream.

New Work: Short-term corona concept or long-term work model?

Germany works out of home office. When everything started in March 2020, everyone was acting in survival mode. Now the long-term nature of the remote working concept is in demand. Many companies are preparing for longer home offices. Because one factor that has changed since the first lockdown is the ability to plan.

Sanctus Dominus: Sinfoglesia releases second single

After the success of the first single Victoriam in spring 2020, BurdaForward and the pop-classical ensemble Sinfoglesia are back: Sanctus Dominus reminds us of the good in hard times.

FOCUS Online receives award for social documentation

#Lebenslauf2020 running challenge for Germany’s terminally ill children

"Mom said my brother is very sick and may leave us soon. Will he go to heaven?" Every day, the "Oskar Sorgentelefon” (Oskar worry phone) of the German association of children's hospices faces questions like these. Germany’s terminally ill children and their loved ones can reach the Oskar Sorgentelefon confidentially, free of charge and around the clock – even in the middle of the night or on holidays. The telephone service is financed by donations alone, but these have come to a near standstill in the face of the economic crisis that hit German society during the coronavirus pandemic. While donations are slowing down, OSKAR’s telephone hotlines never stand still - and neither does Marie Schulte-Bockum.

Church@Home: Celebrate Easter with #CoronaCare

All over Germany millions of people flock to church at Easter. But during the coronavirus crisis, places of worship must remain closed. FOCUS Online, Bayerischer Rundfunk and DOMRADIO provide livestreams of Easter Masses, thus bringing the church services home.

"Eliminating fears and worries without trivializing"

Since one week FOCUS Online and a team of experts have been answering the most common questions about coronavirus in a digital consultation hour - live and in constant exchange with infectiologists, virologists and other specialists. Already in this time the portal reached with the consulting hour on focus.de over one million humans, daily several hundred Mails arrive with the editorship.

FOCUS Online warns its users about ghost drivers before it’s too late

Every traffic fatality is one too many. That's why we want to use appropriate technology to save lives. With the help of a cloud-based system, FOCUS Online now warns app users about ghost users on Germany’s streets.