Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Faculty of Catholic Theology, Leopoldsaal

Wrecking-Ball Politics

The Trump Effect on the US and the Media

Conversation

15 months after Donald Trump returned to power in the US, the country is scarcely recognisable. Trump has signed orders withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, the WHO and the UN Human Rights Council; he has dismantled the agency for international development, USAID, and still harbours plans to annex Greenland. In the Middle East, Trump started a war alongside Israel, with the consequences for the region and the economy still remaining to be seen. Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are thanking Trump for his welfare-slashing policies with huge investments, harnessing the now more accessible natural resources specifically for the massive development of AI servers. The Trump government targets independent media outlets. Since summer 2025, a nationwide civil-society (“No Kings”) protest movement has mobilised against Trump. Drawing over eight million participants, the protests at the end of March 2026 were the largest single-day mass protest in the history of the US.

Claus Kleber
Longstanding Anchor of ZDF’s heute journal, he previously spent 15 years as US correspondent for ARD, book author and author of the TV documentary “Trump und das Silicon Valley – Staatsstreich der Tech-Milliardäre” (2025) (Trump and the Silicon Valley – A Tech Billionaire’s Coup)

In conversation with
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
France Correspondent and former Head of News at German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and longstanding Editor-in-Chief of Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard

German

Free admission

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

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