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On 11 March 2026, the Lower Saxony state media authority (Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt – NLM) lodged a complaint concerning a breach of journalistic due diligence by the broadcaster dctp Entwicklungsgesellschaft für TV-Programm mbH. The complaint concerned an edition of the Spiegel TV television programme in which people had been portrayed without their identity being sufficiently concealed. The report in question, entitled "Tatort Hauptstadt: Ramme, Rausch und Randale", was broadcast on 18 August 2025 as part of a third-party window by the private...

In a ruling dated 31 July 2025 (no. 5 StR 78/25), the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) dismissed a journalist's appeal against his conviction by the Regional Court of Berlin I (Landgericht Berlin I) on 18 October 2024 for publishing decisions from an investigation into members of the "Letzte Generation" group. The regional court's decision is now legally binding. In August 2023, the accused journalist had published on the internet decisions issued by the investigating judge of the Munich District Court (Amtsgericht München) in an ongoing...

On 8 January 2026, AGF Videoforschung, a company that conducts impartial research in the German TV and video sector, focusing particularly on audience measurement, published its annual TV and video review for 2025. The review concludes that consumption of audiovisual content is characterised by an increasingly diverse media landscape and changing usage situations. While video content is increasingly spread across different distribution channels and providers, linear television remains a core component of the media market, especially for current, socially relevant and live content. AGF...

In a judgment dated 16 December 2020, Munich Regional Court (Landgericht - LG) I ruled (case No. 33 O 3266/24) that changes made by the streaming service provider Amazon Prime with regard to the broadcasting of advertising on the Prime Video service, which came into force in February 2024, are inadmissible. In January 2024, Amazon sent an email to subscribers of a paid Prime membership, which also includes the Prime Video streaming service and enables its ad-free use, announcing that the streaming service would no longer be completely ad-free in future. At the same time, Amazon offered continued...

In its judgment of 16 December 2020, the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof - BGH) ruled (Case No. VI ZR 142/24) that identifying reporting in the press about a criminal conviction dating back several years may be permissible even after the probation period has expired and the conviction has been erased from the criminal record. The admissibility of such reporting requires a current reason for the reporting and a corresponding public interest in the information; this must outweigh the interest in resocialisation of the person concerned. The decision was based on the following facts:...