One year anniversary Happy Birthday, GA-English!
BONN · After one year up and running, GA-English is celebrating the opportunity to serve the English speaking international community in Bonn and the surrounding area. It was reported in the print edition of General Anzeiger on Thursday.
The idea was simple, obvious, but so ingenious that it electrified us news people who thought we had already seen and heard everything: after 127 years of reliably informing our Bonn readers in German, General-Anzeiger added a digital, English language edition. Just a year ago, on January 19, 2016, we started off with an English version of local news, event tips and topics to help guide and inform the numerous international employees, researchers, neighbors and newcomers from all over the world.
The response has been fantastic: “GA English” has almost a thousand fans on Facebook, and the English online news site is being visited around 25,000 times a month. Thanks everybody! Happy Birthday, GA English team, you’re doing a great job! So far, we are the only regional newspaper in Germany which also appears in English - daily, free of charge, with a wide variety of articles and really nice readers. The nice reader part isn’t because of us, of course - sorry Berlin - but rather Bonn’s unique mix of the United Nations, international corporations and the University of Bonn, helping to give Bonn its international flair.
If you have not yet visited “GA-English,” you are warmly invited to check out our website:
See you soon!
(Orig. text: Jasmin Fischer)
