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Type of site | News website |
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| Available in | German, English |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Owner | Der Spiegel GmbH & Co. KG |
| Chairperson | Thomas Hass |
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| URL | spiegel.de |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 25 October 1994; 31 years ago (1994-10-25) |
| Current status | Active |
Der Spiegel (lit. 'The Mirror') is a Germannews website. It was established in 1994 asSpiegel Online as a contentmirror of the magazineDer Spiegel. In 1995, the site began producing original stories and it introducedSpiegel Online International for articles translated into English in 2004. The magazine and website were editorially aligned in 2019 andSpiegel Online was rebrandedDer Spiegel in January 2020.
Regular staff includes 150 people in theHamburg headquarters,[1] complemented byfreelancers, and news bureaus both domestic and international. In the German capital,Berlin, 15 correspondents cover the German federal government, political parties, corporations and artists. TheMunich andDüsseldorf offices have one correspondent each. There are journalists based in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Moscow, New Delhi and Istanbul. The online news staff also receives support fromDer Spiegel magazine's network of correspondents in Germany and abroad.
The news website first went up on 25 October 1994 under the nameSpiegel Online,[2][3][4] making it the first online presence of an established news magazine, one day before theTime site.Spiegel Online started as a service onCompuServe.[5] The web domain spiegel.de was established one year later.Spiegel Online's content initially consisted of hand-picked articles from the print magazine. As early as 1995, however, original content first appeared in a section called "Scanner", which was only available online. In the following year,Spiegel Online was relaunched and commenced featuring breaking news as well.[6]
Spiegel Online International, a section featuring articles translated into English, was launched in autumn 2004.[7] Wolfgang Büchner was editor-in-chief of the magazine and website from September 2013 to December 2014. Büchner's former deputies, Florian Harms and Barbara Hans, headedDer Spiegel after Büchner left the company. On 13 January 2015, Harms was appointed sole editor-in-chief.[8] Following his departure on 6 December 2016, Hans was promoted to editor-in-chief.[9] In 2019, its editorial office was merged with the printedDer Spiegel.[10] In January 2020, the website was rebranded, now using the same media brand as the printed format.[11]
Der Spiegel is among the top 30 most visited websites in Germany,[12] with record profitability.[13] It is the most frequently quoted online media product in the country as of 2014.[14]
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