Second level navigation

To the content | Search | Top level navigation | Second level navigation |

• Corporate Portrait and Video
• Executive Board
• Supervisory Board
• Employees
• History
• Responsibility / Sustainability Report 2009
  • Our Objectives
  • Principles and Guidelines
  • Responsibility as a Media Company
    • Independence of Journalism
    • Product Responsibility
    • Promotion of Young Journalists and Media Skills
    • Commitment to the Interests of Media
  • Employees
  • Social Commitment
  • Environment
  • Economy
  • Axel Springer International
  • Value Chain
  • Sustainability Videos and Studies
  • Contacts for Sustainability
  • Current Topics
• Axel Springer International
• Corporate Publications
• Contact

Search | Top level navigation | Second level navigation |

Commitment to the interests of media

Standing up for the legal and economic prerequisites of a free press is one of the central concerns of Axel Springer AG. This is why the company is involved - both directly and indirectly - in a number of associations and initiatives.

These include in particular:

• The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ)
    
  
• The Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV)
   
  
• The Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (German Association of the Digital Economy [BVDW])
   
• The major industry associations in countries in which the company is active
   
  
• The European Federation of Magazine Publishers (FAEP)
   
  
• The European Publishers Council (EPC)
   
  
• The World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
   
  
• The International Federation of the Periodical Press FIPP
   
  
• The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe
  

A concrete example of commitment to the interests of media: The "Hamburger Erklärung" (photo) – a joint appeal by international publishers for the protection of intellectual property.

The right menu bar provides information on the self-conception, the composition and the core activities of the associations.