Fachjournalist: Watching Parliament’s every move
Anyone reporting on the genesis of political decisions, the work of individual political protagonists or simply on the daily “becoming” of politics will find rich, well-prepared, quickly searchable and, above all, citable source material here.
Joscha Jäger, founder, project manager and mastermind behind OPTV, is proud of the portal he launched in October. At the same time, he does not want to adorn himself with borrowed plumes: “The sources from which we feed OPTV were already publicly accessible before our launch. The videos from the Bundestag were available in the Mediathek and the transcripts of the sessions, the plenary minutes, at bundestag.de.” The merit of Jäger and his team is, among other things, to have brought these sources together on OPTV on an easily navigable interface, synchronised them and made them easily accessible.