Jule Franz
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Jule Franz (born 2004) has been studying journalism at Hochschule Hannover since the winter semester of 2024. Her interest in the German language and literature began at school, where tackling critical and new subjects gave her a taste for investigative journalism.
In her spare time she campaigns for the rights of minors online and looks closely at the challenges of the digital world and how to protect young people in it. In 2023 her research paper on the digital sex work of underage girls won fourth place in the Lions Club Excellence Programme.
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