Media Region NRW

Bertelsmann is operating in around 50 countries – but North Rhine-Westphalia is the heart and home of our company. As a part of NRW’s strong, innovative media landscape, we are working from here with creativity and entrepreneurship on shaping the industry‘s digital transformation.

NRW is a strong media state and thanks to ist many creative minds it will remain strong even in the digital age. This means for WDR: We will produce more cross-media and expand nonlinear platforms. This makes it all the more important for us to have reliable partners at our side who, like us, are committed to providing our audiences with a high-quality, independent and innovative program.

Deutsche Telekom is not only providing society with infrastructure; it allows people to participate in the opportunities offered by the digital world. Anytime and anywhere. Privately and professionally. That is our mission, and NRW is the home from where we assume this responsibility."

Free media are a guarantee for reliable information. They are indispensable for our democratic discourse. In order to secure media pluralism and freedom of speech, we are providing for good local conditions and a modern legal framework that guarantees fair competition and strengthens the media-digital region of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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.

Strong global players, creative start-ups and an innovative middle class - their interaction is what makes the media industry in North Rhine-Westphalia so successful. The media is the engine of digital transformation and an important future industry for our state.

The high density of media professionals in NRW contributes significantly to the success of the Media Group RTL Germany. We are also the local hero in the total video sector because at our Cologne location, we can rely on highly qualified employees and strong partners who create moving and up-to-date content for us.

The values we stand for in NRW are nonnegotiable: protection of human dignity, media pluralism, protection of minors and consumers, freedom of speech. We are committed to a culture of free debate on the Internet that is not characterised by hatred or disinformation. The «Don‘t just delete – prosecute» initiative pursues criminal hate speech.