Emma Jacob

Emma Jacob (born 2004) has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since the winter semester of 2024. Her interest in journalistic topics was sparked while she was still at school. After her A levels she did a voluntary ecological year with the youth environmental network JANUN and an internship at the radio station Antenne Niedersachsen.

She is most interested in politics, the environment and society. In a world of information overload, she wants to contribute to an informed, open and critical society.

Emma’s articles:

Work

800 euros less: a ZDF journalist on the gender pay gap.

Her male colleagues earn considerably more – for the same work. What needs to happen so that equal treatment isn’t just theory?

Two hands tear a hole in a sheet of pink paper, revealing stacked coins behind it – a symbolic depiction of the gender pay gap and financial inequality.

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Collecting

The world’s largest Playmobil collection: 400,000 figures

It all began in a child’s bedroom – today Oliver Schaffer owns the world’s largest Playmobil collection, with more than 400,000 figures. A visit to his high-bay warehouse.

Masculinity

‘Being gay is not a choice’

Dirk and Thomas came out to their families only recently. Today they live together as a couple. In an interview with our author, they talk about their path to an open life.

Masculinity

‘I was a Hitler caricature from a bad Hollywood film’

He used to march through the streets in a leather coat, carrying the Reich war flag, giving hate speeches and dreaming of the great revolution. Today Axel Reitz works in extremism prevention.

Work

Expo observatory in Melle: the world’s largest amateur telescope

When estate agent Bernd Schröter set out to build the world’s largest amateur telescope, many people thought he was mad. But in time for Expo 2000, he really did open his observatory.

Advice

What makes a good photo reportage: characteristics, examples and tips.

A clear focus on the people in the story, powerful pictures, strong storytelling: using examples, we show you the hallmarks of a photo reportage that grips and stays in the mind.

A woman holds two cameras up to her eyes.

Award winners

On the edge of the hail of bullets.

Rafael Heygster questions society’s approach to war in “I Died 22 Times.”

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