Taking in, processing and disseminating information – and at times even commenting on it. This attracted Walter Laqueur to journalism when he was a boy. Today, the 93-year-old historian looks back at…

In the era of computers and television, classic print journalism is mired in a crisis without much hope. It therefore becomes a challenge to explain the fascination journalism has exerted on many…

"In the Holy Writings the trumpet was the freedom of press. It will also tear down the walls of tyranny." Ludwig Börne     Without weapons. Only with words. With words they gained freedom. Knowing…

Paris had a sizeable Jewish migrant population in the interwar period, that grew from around 35.000 Jews with an Eastern or Central European background in 1914 to an estimated 90.000 by the late…

There is a sheet of white paper taped to one of the glass walls in the newsroom of the Jewish Daily Forward in New York. It has three lines of text; the first two are printed: “Does your story have…

Unter Trompete verstand die Heilige Schrift die Pressefreiheit. Vor ihr werden auch die Mauern der Tyrannei fallen.» Ludwig Börne  Ohne Waffen. Nur mit Worten. Mit Worten erschrieben sie sich die…

Familienunternehmen geniessen den Vorteil der Unauffälligkeit. So dominiert der von der gleichnamigen Sippe kontrollierte Konzern Cargill grosse Teile der amerikanischen Agrar- und…