Tilo Jung
Tilo Jung (born October 21, 1985) is a German journalist and chief editor of the political webshow "Jung & Naiv" (Young & Naive). Life and work. At the age of 15, Jung began to contribute as a freelance reporter to the regional daily newspaper Nordkurier on topics which included the year he spent as an exchange school pupil in Texas. In 2006, he moved to Berlin, enrolling to study business and law at Humboldt University, but he did not graduate. In 2011, he started his career as a journalist interviewing and editing coverage for the radio show "Medienmagazin" on "radioeins , hosted by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Initially, Jung published uncut interviews on his YouTube channel. The German commercial television station Joiz.Germany" began to broadcast episodes of "Jung & Naiv" six months later, but stopped in November 2014 when the station became insolvent. Notable guests on Jung's show were politicians, journalists and other commentators, including Peer Steinbrück, Jürgen Trittin, Heiko Maas, Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald. In 2015, Jung shifted his focus to the "Bundespressekonferenzen", the regular press conferences of the German government. In mid-April, he began to post shorter, topic-related videos excerpted from his full-length  videos on YouTube. He also began a collaborative effort with Stefan Schulz, a journalist from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Other journalists and television programs, such as the heute-show and NDR's "Zapp Magazin", have interviewed Jung or broadcast segments of his programs. Jung works independently and is supported by his web viewers through crowdfunding.