News
Television News
The main German television news programmes are "ZDF Heute" at 7pm on ZDF and "Tagesschau" at 8pm on ARD.Both channels provide excellent web sites where you can read the latest stories and watch a selection of videos from the news reports.
In addition, "Tagesschau" offers both audio and video podcasts, which can be useful to here the German language if you are learning abroad as the newsreaders speak very clearly.
If your German is not that strong, then you may like to try "Tagesschau" in English or the version for children, which uses simpler language and very often provides a spoken version of the article.
There are also 24 hour news channels: n-tv and n24.
Newspapers
Germany has several national newspapers and countless regional ones. The main national papers are BILD, Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). FAZ uses are more serious language, while BILD uses much simpler German.
The main local paper for our area (Taunus, north of Frankfurt) is the "Taunus Zeitung". If you want to find out which newspapers exist in the area you are thinking of visiting, why not ask in the Forum?
Magazines
There are three main news magazines: Stern, Spiegel and Focus. Focus is newer and first appeared in the 1990s.
There are special online editions of Spiegel for students and schoolchildren.
If you have questions about the media in Germany, you can ask them in the Forum.