Springer strengthens online activities

Axel Springer Verlag wants to expand its activities on the Internet: All news items are to be published on the WWW as soon as they come in - including exclusive stories. Detailed reports are to be read in the newspaper the following day. This is announced by Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in the upcoming issue of the news magazine Focus, as Pressetext.ch reports. A new newsroom for the newspapers Welt and Berliner Morgenpost is to be completed at the end of the year. From then on, the "online first" rule will apply. Everything else "misses the customer", says Döpfner. However, Springer does not want to compete with Google: "In comparison, we are a newsstand company," Döpfner continues.