Occupation Journalist TV shows Jung & Naiv Role Journalist | Name Tilo Jung Website www.jungundnaiv.de | |
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Tilo Jung (born October 21, 1985 in Malchin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German journalist and chief editor of the political webshow Jung & Naiv (Young & Naive).
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DLD Backstage: Tilo Jung
Life and work
While completing his education, Tilo Jung worked temporarily as a reporter for the regional daily newspaper Nordkurier.
In 2006 he moved to Berlin, enrolling to study business and law at Humboldt University. 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.
The general debate about political apathy inspired him to create a new concept for a political talk show called Jung & Naiv with the tagline "Politics for the Indifferent". The ambience of the interview is informal, the conversation unrestricted by time or script, and guests are asked to avoid using jargon.
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.
Jung was nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2014 as best current affairs program.
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 NDR's Zapp Magazin, have interviewed Jung or broadcast segments of his programs. Jung works independently and is supported by his web viewers through crowdfunding.
Jung was a Pirate Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.