diplo.news
diplo.news
News & Views on Foreign Relations & Diplomacy
is an online medium for news and analyses on foreign policy and diplomacy, founded in Berlin in 2024. The editorial office is located in the House of the Federal Press Conference in Berlin's government district.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Ewald König, Publisher (ekö)
koenig@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 151 2162 7154
Ewald König started as an editor at the Austrian newspaper DIE PRESSE in Vienna in 1977. From 1985 to 2003 he worked as their Germany correspondent in Bonn and (East) Berlin. He was the only Germany correspondent to be accredited in both the West Germany and the East Germany. From 1990 to 1995, he was the Chairman of the Association of the Foreign Press in Germany (VAP). From 2009 to 2014, he was editor-in-chief and publisher of the European political media EURACTIV.de. He has worked as a freelance author, TV producer and presenter for many years and founded the Berliner Korrespondentenbüro • International Media Projects, korrespondenten.cafe and other forums. He has written several books about the East Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. In 2020, he received the Golden Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria. In 2024, he founded the media platform diplo.news.
For more information about Ewald König:
www.korrespondenten.com and www.korrespondenten.cafe
Gudrun Dometeit, Editor-in-Chief (gd)
dometeit@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 170 2817 019
Gudrun Dometeit studied political science, Slavic studies and law and became Moscow correspondent for the German Press Agency (dpa) one year after graduating. This was followed by positions as duty editor and regional political correspondent at the dpa office in Hamburg. From 1995, she worked for Fokus magazine and had the opportunity to travel extensively in (South-) Eastern Europe, China and India, among other places. She then held various management positions as head of foreign affairs, domestic politics and economics until 2024. She is co-author of books on war and crisis reporting and "Female Diplomacy". Since the end of 2024, she has been the editor-in-chief of diplo.news.
Gülfem Dodur, Journalist
dodur@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 157 3817 1139
Mrs. Huong To
Director of Marketing and Corporate Affairs
huong.to@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 172 2545 904
AUTHORS
Michael BACKFISCH
(mb) Author for international politics. Head of foreign affairs at Funke Zentralredaktion in Berlin until 2023, previously deputy editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt and correspondent in Washington and Dubai.
Irmgard BERNER
(ib) Cultural journalist in Berlin
Andreas FINK
(af) Correspondent in Buenos Aires
Stefan FRÖHLICH
(sf) Political scientist and professor of international relations at the Alexander Friedrich University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He teaches at the Collège d'Europe in Bruges, among other places. Author of numerous books, most recently ‘Märkte, Macht und Wandel – Deutschlands geoökonomische Zeitenwende“’
Dr Dietrich von KYAW
(dvk) Ambassador (ret.), former Permanent Representative of Germany to the EU, author of the book ‘Deutschland und die Selbstbehauptung Europas’
Andreas LANDWEHR
(al) Head of the German Press Agency office in Beijing for 30 years. Before that, he worked for dpa in Washington DC, he was responsible for dpa's Asia-Pacific regional network until 2023. Honoured with the Liberty Award of the Reemtsma Foundation. Freelance author in Berlin since September 2024.
Prof Dr Stefan LIEBING
(sl) Managing Director of Conjuncta GmbH and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Business and Technology in Africa at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. 2011-2023 Chairman of the Afrika-Verein der deutschen Wirtschaft e.V., 2014/2015 also Chairman of the European Business Council on Africa and the Mediterranean (EBCAM). In the summer semester of 2025, Liebing will take over the Hiob Ludolf Visiting Professorship at the University of Hamburg. He is involved on a voluntary basis as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the ReThinking Africa Foundation and as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Cameroon in Hamburg.
Prof Dr Thomas SCHMIDT
(ts) Co-Director of the Centre for Business and Technology in Africa and Professor of Information Systems at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, specialising in business application systems. Management consultant for strategy and implementation projects. Many years of experience in Africa with projects on university partnerships with technology transfer in logistics and information technology. He was a guest professor in the USA, Sweden, Finland, France and China previously.
Ralf KRÜGER
(rk) After studying economics, Ralf Krüger completed a traineeship at the "Emder Zeitung" (1982-1985). He then worked for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) from 1985-2022, including news editor at the head office and travel correspondent for West Africa, foreign correspondent in Paris. He was the head of the dpa Africa office in Johannesburg for many years (2001-2010 and 2019-2022). He now lives between Johannesburg and Berlin.
Dr Günther UNSER
(gu) Former professor of political science at RWTH Aachen University. Expert on international organisations, especially the European Union and the United Nations.
CARICATURES
Slava Nikolaev
diplo@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
ADDRESS:
Haus der Bundespressekonferenz
Schiffbauerdamm 40 / 2407-2408
10117 Berlin
MAILBOX:
80111
10001 Berlin
is an online medium for news and analyses on foreign policy and diplomacy, founded in Berlin in 2024. The editorial office is located in the House of the Federal Press Conference in Berlin's government district.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Ewald König, Publisher (ekö)
koenig@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 151 2162 7154
Ewald König started as an editor at the Austrian newspaper DIE PRESSE in Vienna in 1977. From 1985 to 2003 he worked as their Germany correspondent in Bonn and (East) Berlin. He was the only Germany correspondent to be accredited in both the West Germany and the East Germany. From 1990 to 1995, he was the Chairman of the Association of the Foreign Press in Germany (VAP). From 2009 to 2014, he was editor-in-chief and publisher of the European political media EURACTIV.de. He has worked as a freelance author, TV producer and presenter for many years and founded the Berliner Korrespondentenbüro • International Media Projects, korrespondenten.cafe and other forums. He has written several books about the East Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. In 2020, he received the Golden Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria. In 2024, he founded the media platform diplo.news.
For more information about Ewald König:
www.korrespondenten.com and www.korrespondenten.cafe
Gudrun Dometeit, Editor-in-Chief (gd)
dometeit@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 170 2817 019
Gudrun Dometeit studied political science, Slavic studies and law and became Moscow correspondent for the German Press Agency (dpa) one year after graduating. This was followed by positions as duty editor and regional political correspondent at the dpa office in Hamburg. From 1995, she worked for Fokus magazine and had the opportunity to travel extensively in (South-) Eastern Europe, China and India, among other places. She then held various management positions as head of foreign affairs, domestic politics and economics until 2024. She is co-author of books on war and crisis reporting and "Female Diplomacy". Since the end of 2024, she has been the editor-in-chief of diplo.news.
Gülfem Dodur, Journalist
dodur@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 157 3817 1139
Mrs. Huong To
Director of Marketing and Corporate Affairs
huong.to@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
+49 172 2545 904
AUTHORS
Michael BACKFISCH
(mb) Author for international politics. Head of foreign affairs at Funke Zentralredaktion in Berlin until 2023, previously deputy editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt and correspondent in Washington and Dubai.
Irmgard BERNER
(ib) Cultural journalist in Berlin
Andreas FINK
(af) Correspondent in Buenos Aires
Stefan FRÖHLICH
(sf) Political scientist and professor of international relations at the Alexander Friedrich University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He teaches at the Collège d'Europe in Bruges, among other places. Author of numerous books, most recently ‘Märkte, Macht und Wandel – Deutschlands geoökonomische Zeitenwende“’
Dr Dietrich von KYAW
(dvk) Ambassador (ret.), former Permanent Representative of Germany to the EU, author of the book ‘Deutschland und die Selbstbehauptung Europas’
Andreas LANDWEHR
(al) Head of the German Press Agency office in Beijing for 30 years. Before that, he worked for dpa in Washington DC, he was responsible for dpa's Asia-Pacific regional network until 2023. Honoured with the Liberty Award of the Reemtsma Foundation. Freelance author in Berlin since September 2024.
Prof Dr Stefan LIEBING
(sl) Managing Director of Conjuncta GmbH and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Business and Technology in Africa at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. 2011-2023 Chairman of the Afrika-Verein der deutschen Wirtschaft e.V., 2014/2015 also Chairman of the European Business Council on Africa and the Mediterranean (EBCAM). In the summer semester of 2025, Liebing will take over the Hiob Ludolf Visiting Professorship at the University of Hamburg. He is involved on a voluntary basis as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the ReThinking Africa Foundation and as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Cameroon in Hamburg.
Prof Dr Thomas SCHMIDT
(ts) Co-Director of the Centre for Business and Technology in Africa and Professor of Information Systems at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, specialising in business application systems. Management consultant for strategy and implementation projects. Many years of experience in Africa with projects on university partnerships with technology transfer in logistics and information technology. He was a guest professor in the USA, Sweden, Finland, France and China previously.
Ralf KRÜGER
(rk) After studying economics, Ralf Krüger completed a traineeship at the "Emder Zeitung" (1982-1985). He then worked for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) from 1985-2022, including news editor at the head office and travel correspondent for West Africa, foreign correspondent in Paris. He was the head of the dpa Africa office in Johannesburg for many years (2001-2010 and 2019-2022). He now lives between Johannesburg and Berlin.
Dr Günther UNSER
(gu) Former professor of political science at RWTH Aachen University. Expert on international organisations, especially the European Union and the United Nations.
CARICATURES
Slava Nikolaev
diplo@diplo.news
+49 30 4000 4630
ADDRESS:
Haus der Bundespressekonferenz
Schiffbauerdamm 40 / 2407-2408
10117 Berlin
MAILBOX:
80111
10001 Berlin
Introducing diplo.news
diplo.news
Our journalistic platform offers in-depth analyses, commentaries, interviews, and feature stories on foreign policy—beyond the daily news cycle. With a special focus on diplomacy and underreported regions, we provide insights that are particularly relevant to decision-makers in business and international affairs.
Independent, impartial
The editorial team is completely independent and impartial. . It is committed to the principle that journalists should not only talk to countries with Western values, but also to ‘God and the devil’. Conspiracy theories have no place here.
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Categories
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Distribution
The content of diplo.news may be used by other media free of charge. The only condition is that the source is correctly cited (www.diplo.news). We are happy to receive sample copies.
diplo.cafe
A networking series primarily designed for press attachés and diplomatic staff from foreign embassies and international institutions. Each event features special guests and expert speakers, hosted at various locations in Berlin and beyond.
diplo.international
Our publisher regularly produces TV interviews with ambassadors and senior representatives of international organizations. These are broadcast on TV Berlin — which reaches audiences in several German states—and published on the diplo.news website and on YouTube.
diplo.services
For newly arrived diplomats in Berlin, we offer media workshops designed to navigate the German media landscape and optimize public communication. Additional tailored services include press release editing, event moderation, and strategic communication support for embassies and international enterprises.
diplo.services also includes a Black Board for job offers, property enquiries and other needs specific to diplomats.
diplo.salon
Exclusive, purpose-driven gatherings that bring together ambassadors, policymakers, and business leaders. These intimate roundtables focus on specific topics and can also be arranged upon request.
Our journalistic platform offers in-depth analyses, commentaries, interviews, and feature stories on foreign policy—beyond the daily news cycle. With a special focus on diplomacy and underreported regions, we provide insights that are particularly relevant to decision-makers in business and international affairs.
Independent, impartial
The editorial team is completely independent and impartial. . It is committed to the principle that journalists should not only talk to countries with Western values, but also to ‘God and the devil’. Conspiracy theories have no place here.
News for and from embassies
diplo.news provides its own editorial reports from the world of diplomacy, but also gives embassies a voice for their announcements.
Categories
The categories are as following:
News from the editorial team
News from the embassies
News from the government
News from the economy
News from the think tanks
Distribution
The content of diplo.news may be used by other media free of charge. The only condition is that the source is correctly cited (www.diplo.news). We are happy to receive sample copies.
diplo.cafe
A networking series primarily designed for press attachés and diplomatic staff from foreign embassies and international institutions. Each event features special guests and expert speakers, hosted at various locations in Berlin and beyond.
diplo.international
Our publisher regularly produces TV interviews with ambassadors and senior representatives of international organizations. These are broadcast on TV Berlin — which reaches audiences in several German states—and published on the diplo.news website and on YouTube.
diplo.services
For newly arrived diplomats in Berlin, we offer media workshops designed to navigate the German media landscape and optimize public communication. Additional tailored services include press release editing, event moderation, and strategic communication support for embassies and international enterprises.
diplo.services also includes a Black Board for job offers, property enquiries and other needs specific to diplomats.
diplo.salon
Exclusive, purpose-driven gatherings that bring together ambassadors, policymakers, and business leaders. These intimate roundtables focus on specific topics and can also be arranged upon request.
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diplo@diplo.news
Tel. +49 30 4000 4631