Tilo Jung (born October 21, 1985) is a German journalist and

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of the political webshow ''Jung & Naiv'' (Young & Naive).

Life and career

At the age of 15, Jung began to contribute as a freelance reporter to the regional daily newspaper

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on topics which included the year he spent as an exchange school pupil in Texas. In 2006, he moved to Berlin, enrolling to study business and law at Humboldt University, but he did not graduate. In 2011, he started his career as a journalist interviewing and editing coverage for the radio show ''Medienmagazin'' on ''radioeins'', hosted by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Initially, Jung published uncut interviews on his YouTube channel. The German commercial television station ''Joiz.Germany'' began to broadcast episodes of ''Jung & Naiv'' six months later, but stopped in November 2014 when the station became insolvent. Notable guests on Jung's show were politicians, journalists and other commentators, including Peer Steinbrück, Jürgen Trittin, Heiko Maas, Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald. In 2015, Jung shifted his focus to the '' Bundespressekonferenzen'', the regular press conferences of the German government. In mid-April, he began to post shorter, topic-related videos excerpted from his full-length videos on YouTube. He also began a collaborative effort with Stefan Schulz, a journalist from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Other journalists and television programs, such as the heute-show and

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's ''Zapp Magazin'', have interviewed Jung or broadcast segments of his programs. Jung works independently and is supported by his web viewers through

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Awards

*2014: Grimme Online Award category ''Best Information''

References

External links

Official Website

YouTube: Tilo Jung
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