With Publix in Berlin, the Schöpflin Foundation is developing a place to promote journalistic innovation and strengthen the critical public sphere. A place for networking and for the future. More than 4,000 square meters and several floors will house editorial offices, co-working spaces, living and retreat spaces, a café and event spaces. Publix brings together people from very different fields - media professionals, civil society organizations and committed citizens.
We are facing major social challenges, the traditional media are coming under increasing pressure, and the social divide is deepening. This development calls for a new infrastructure that enables synergies to be exploited and competencies to be exchanged. With Publix, we want to create a place where networking and new forms of cooperation and knowledge transfer in the field of media, journalism and the public sphere can be tested.
Publix offers media professionals and civil society a framework for education, exchange and debate, and pool knowledge on topics such as polarization, digital opinion formation and freedom of information. People from Germany, Europe and the world will come together here to work together to preserve and strengthen a free and critical society and thus the foundation of our democracies.
Maria Exner is the director of Publix, the house of journalism and the public, which opened in 2024. She had been preparing the development and content orientation of Publix since 2022. The journalist was previously editor-in-chief of ZEITmagazin, and in 2021 she was named one of the magazine editors-in-chief of the year. Prior to that, she developed innovative digital and civil society projects as deputy editor-in-chief of ZEIT ONLINE, including the dialogue initiative »Deutschland Spricht« and the Ideen-Festival Z2X. Her work has been honoured with the Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration and the Grimme Online Award, among others.
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