Media Region NRW

Bertelsmann is operating in around 50 countries – and based in North Rhine-Westphalia. The media business is experiencing rapid transformation. Digitalisation and creativity find the perfect environment in North Rhine-Westphalia to participate in these changes.

The media region NRW – this is WDR´s home. And we are NRW´s and the media landscape’s home. That´s how it is and how it should remain. We want to be and continously will be a good partner for all the creative players – with the courage for innovation, the aim for quality and the wish to improve the cultural landscape – to the benefit of all parties.

Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society with infrastructure. We are also a reliable companion in the digital world. Both privately and professionally. Anytime and anywhere. Simplifying and enriching people's lives - that is our mission. NRW is the home from where we take on this responsibility - also in partnership with the media.

We are working together with the players in the media hub of North Rhine-Westphalia to ensure that media diversity and freedom of expression are safeguarded. Quality, transparency and credibility are our standards here. They guide us and strengthen our democratic polity.

As “NRWers” in the Rheinau Harbour, we appreciate the proximity to key accounts, medium- sized enterprises and important partners of ICT. Being an innovation-driven company, we are benefitting from the media industry’s diversity and from higher education and research institutions.

Ogilvy has found everything a creative service-provider needs over the past 35 years: interesting clients, experts in technology, colleagues from the media industry, and an exciting art and cultural scene. But the region's most crucial factor is underestimated: the open and human character that is perhaps the greatest competitive advantage in the age of the digital shift and interdisciplinary cooperation

North Rhine-Westphalia is a strong location for media: modern, creative and innovative. The media industry has gone through and is still going through a rapid phase of digital development. The regional state government has paved the way for sustainable development of the region so that the industry will remain in future being what it already is: lively, diverse and unique.

What we at the RTL Media Group particularly appreciate about NRW and our location in Cologne is the large concentration of highly qualified media professionals: the fact that many of them make a fundamental contribution to the realisation of innovative ideas is a critical success factor for our strategy regarding content.

We represent the interests in Europe of a free and independent media landscape and are committed to NRW to being a strong and innovative media hub. The values by which we stand are therefore non-negotiable: freedom of speech, protection of human dignity, media pluralism, and protection of minors. This doesn't work without binding regulations and sanctions for non-compliance.