Welcome
at the "DocCenter Courageous Investigations and Investigative Reporting". The domain name "in2public.org" speaks for its own representing the idea of bringing explosive or society relevant information and journalistic stories into the public. Stories presented have been published by journalists - we document them and additionally we reconstruct the stories behind the stories.
The original website of DocCenter is a German one: www.ansTageslicht.de. Actually only in2public.org exists in English and links lead to the German site, but reports and the truth behind them translated in English are forthcoming.
Four sections are available:
At WÄCHTERPREIS you will find all German Newspapers 'watch-dog - prize' awarded reports since 2003. The prize is offered by the German "Foundation Freedom of the Press" which annually honours 3 remarkable investigations or publications. This section is also reachable at www.Waechterpreis.de.
At PANORAMA we provide access to several main themes and topics published and broadcasted by the investigative TV magazine panorama of the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) which is a second cooperation partner of in2public.org / ansTageslicht.de.
Reports of the investigative TV programme FRONTAL21 - stories and how the reporters have investigated them - can be viewed at Frontal21.
For so-called Whistleblowers we offer www.whistleblowerinfo.de (www.informanteninfo.de or www.informanten.org) where hints and tips are given for all people thinking about to blow the whistle when problems, wrongdoing, irregularities, abuse of power or dangers have been arisen and no one cares about.
The DocCenter provides two purposes:
1) All published and aired reports are directly accessible - there are no fees and no complicated search in any archive must be undertaken.
2) In addition to that we describe and explain the stories behind the documented stories:
- how wrongdoing, the abuse of power or a scandal has arisen
- how the journalists took notice of that
- how the investigations were conducted (difficulties and solutions, problems, lawsuits etc)
- the name and function of all persons, companies and institutions involved
- how the 'story' or affair is going on
- what the actual consequences and long-term effects are (wrongdoing is eliminated, corruption abolished, Bad Guy sentenced to prison, more effective law has been enacted, etc)
- and: what everybody can do to change an unpleasant or unwanted situation.
The original website www.ansTageslicht.de is under permanent development. For the first, new stories are being added. Secondly the idea of the project will be enlarged by other countries: South Eastern Europe and Russia. All reports and backgrounds are designated for being presented in their native language and in the two world largest languages: English (in2public.org) and Russia (www.vsvet.org).
DocCenter is located at the "Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW) - University of Applied Sciences", Hamburg. Students of the "Department Design - Medien - Information" are working on this project. For more info see about.
The exact URL of each particular site can be seen by right-clicking and opening in a new window or tab.
If you have any questions or suggestions please send an email to mail[at]johannesludwig.de, subject: "in2public".
