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In its judgement of 28 April 2026 (case no. VI ZR 113/25), the 6th Civil Division of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) ruled that, when assessing whether a written news article infringes a subject's general personality rights, conflicting interests protected by fundamental rights must be balanced as a matter of principle, taking into account all the circumstances of the individual case. The court had to decide whether a report in the taz newspaper describing a lawyer, named in the report, as a "far-right extremist" infringed his general...

On 5 May 2026, the German media regulatory authorities (Mediananstalt) published their report on accessibility in the private television and streaming sectors. Under Section 7 of the State Media Treaty (Medienstaatsvertrag), and in accordance with Article 7 of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, nationally licensed, privately owned television broadcasters and providers of television-like telemedia must report every three years on the accessibility of their services and publish action plans setting out measures to improve it. Furthermore, the implementation of the European Accessibility...

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...