Tilo Jung

Tilo Jung (born October 21, 1985) is a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the political online interview show Jung & Naiv (Young & Naive).

Tilo Jung
Jung in 2023
Born	(1985-10-21) October 21, 1985 (age 40) Malchin, East Germany
Occupation	Journalist

Life and career

At the age of 15, Jung began to contribute as a freelance reporter to the regional daily newspaper Nordkurier on a wide range of topics, including the year he spent as an exchange student at a high school in Texas.^[1]

In 2006, he moved to Berlin and was briefly enrolled at Humboldt University to study business and law. After dropping out of university, 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,^[2] Heiko Maas, Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald.^[3]

In 2015, Jung started to cover the Bundespressekonferenz, a regular press conference 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 launched the podcast Aufwachen! with Stefan Schulz, previously a journalist at the national paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.^[4]

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.

Awards

• 2014: Grimme Online Award category Best Information^[5]