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90 hours of “press” to listen to, 1.5 million downloads and a new podcast about climate: a lot happened in the audio section of our newspaper in 2023. The “Presse” podcast team recommends the best episodes of the year ending to be rediscovered and rediscovered.
Exactly 402 podcast episodes were produced on “Presse” last year. If you add up the duration of all the podcasts, this results in a duration of 90 hours or 3.75 days. All episodes have been listened to a total of 1.5 million times. There are now five fixed podcasts; A completely new weather podcast called “The Last Aufguss” was added in December. You can still watch episodes of “My Money”.
- What will be important: The daily podcast with current topics and guests from the editorial team or experts external to the company. The hosts are Christine Mayrhofer, Anna Wallner, Eva Winroither and David Freudenthaler.
- The library”: The literature podcast appears once a month, on Saturdays. Bettina Steiner and Anne-Catherine Simon talk about three books.
- The “Music Hall” by classical music critic Wilhelm Sinkovicz appears every Thursday night and every other Saturday “Classic for the tactless,” a fun duet between editor Katrin Nussmayr and Sinkovicz.
- “The Last Infusion”: Every second Friday of each month, the “Presse” climate team brings clarity to a hot topic in the climate debate. The hosts are: Christine Mayrhofer, Matthias Auer, Teresa Wirth, Anja Drechsler and Michael Lohmeyer.
- “What will be important in Alpbach”: For the fourth time in August, Anna Wallner and Eva Winroither reported to the Alpbach European Forum with a congress newspaper.
According to the audio streaming platform Spotify, the news podcast “Presse” is one of the 1% of podcasts most shared worldwide on its platform. The “Presse” production partner is Georg Gfrerer from Audio-Funnel and his team.
These are our 13 favorite episodes of 2023 that we recommend you relisten to:
1. Interview with a ChatBot: The most listened to episode this year is from January: Audio Boss Ana Wallner quickly gave an interview to the AI-based dialogue program Chat GPT, which was still quite new at the time, and voiced the AI, which was again generated by an AI. Cristina Mayrhofer the technology expert has Barbara Steinbrenner interviewed about the good and bad developments in AI…
This episode had the most listeners in 2023:
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2. But Andreas Babler: In any case, one of the highlights of 2023's domestic politics is the election of the new SPÖ president, which, after long back and forth, was not won by Peter Doskozil, but by Andreas Babler. Ana Wallner There is a commentator from the “Press” about this Anneliese Rohrer we discuss how a party can remedy such errors. Internal Policy Editor Philipp Aichinger explains how such an error can occur. This episode is one that 97% of listeners listened to until the end.
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3. Signa sinks into chaos: An old theme in 2023 was the long road to insolvency of real estate agent René Benko and his Signa. Business Editor Madlen Stottmeyer provided information about this more than once, for example about the responsibility of investors as guests Eva Winroither or what will happen after bankruptcy. As a guest on this episode, she explains David Freudenthaler, that you probably don't need to worry about Benko himself.
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4.The future of journalism: The year 2023 was also important internally, “Presse” celebrated its 175th anniversary. In addition to a particularly dense anniversary edition and an accompanying celebration, a special episode of the daily podcast could not be missing. Darin speaks Gabort Steingartfounder of German media start-up Media Pioneer, with deputy editor-in-chief Gerhard Hofer about – how could it be otherwise – the world of social media and why journalists are so unpopular.
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5. A New World Order: The ongoing war in Gaza was also discussed more than once on the daily “Presse” podcast. Guest on Ana Wallner explained the deputy editor-in-chief Christian Ultsch a day after the Hamas attack on Israel, that “a huge struggle for a new world order is underway” and what a lasting impression the outbreak of war left on Israel.
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7. The final infusion: “Die Presse” has also had a climate podcast since December. The team around Matthias Auer, Anja Drechsler, Michael Lohmeyer, Christine Mayrhofer It is Teresa Wirth every second Friday is dedicated to a hot topic in the climate debate. In this episode, the 1.5 degree target is the topic: Why was this guideline set as a target and what would 1.5, two or three degrees of global warming mean for Austria?
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7. Library: Chat once a month Bettina Steiner It is Ana Catarina Simão about books and not just about new releases. They also summarize whether literary prizes are awarded according to the correct criteria, for example when this year's German Book Prize went to Tonio Schachinger and his novel “Real Age”. Also in this episode “Lichtspiel” by Daniel Kehlmann and stories by Mojca Kumerdej.
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8. Classical music for the tactless: Ask at the end of each episode of “Classic for the Tactless.” Katrin Nussmayr It is Wilhelm Sinkovicz for suggestions on what musical phenomena they could focus on. This email inspired the two to musically analyze Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which Katrin Nussmayr associates mainly with fervent singing in night bars and Wilhelm Sinkovicz with the melodies of Handel and Monteverdi. They had a lot of fun exploring the secrets (also lyrical) of this masterful song – no, better: play. You probably hear this too:
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9. Royal New Beginning: At the beginning of May the time arrived: Prince Charles was crowned king in an official ceremony. About the state of the British monarchy Eva Winroither designed and contributed an episode Thomas Vieregge It is Irene Zoch asked of foreign policy: “Do the British still have fun?”
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10. The severe drought in Burgenland: A particularly dry winter has put Burgenland and its lakes in the spotlight this spring.Valeria Heine from the chronicle department explains in this episode as a guest of Cristina Mayrhofer why the Zicksee dried up last year and how long the Lange Lacke and Lake Neusiedl will still exist. Climate researcher Klaus Haslinger from GeoSphere Austria also explains how drought is linked to climate change.
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11. Vienna 1913: Gunther Haller, specialist in history and author of the “History” magazine for “Presse”, dedicates his new book “Café Ruhe” to four dictators who were in Vienna at the same time in 1913: Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky and Tito. Guest on Ana Wallner he says on the podcast “The press to listen” about the city of Vienna in 1913 and the traces that the four men of horror left here.
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12. My Money: The year 2023 brought good news for savers and bad news for borrowers. The interest burden doubled over the year and variable interest loans became quite expensive. Business Editor Susanne Bickel conversation with financial advisor Marieta Babos about what to do if the monthly charge becomes a problem.
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13. 14 years of “Presse am Sonntag”: The year 2023 brought with it a second anniversary – “Presse am Sonntag” celebrated its 14th anniversary. The editor-in-chief of “Pams” reported at the time Christian Ultsch on the podcast Eva Winroither of his work with guest editors-in-chief Lila and the late Karel Schwarzenberg: “The newspaper is bursting at the seams”!
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