“…Stronger political influences are indicated only to a limited extent, for example, when media competition is high (Baugut et al, 2017). In an international comparison, journalists attributed a clear influence on their work to political factors (Hanitzsch et al, 2019), whereas journalists in German-speaking countries reported experiencing relatively few political constraints (Lauerer and Keel, 2019). Moreover, German journalists reported moderate but, in recent years, increasing economic influences, with the highest restrictions, relatively speaking, experienced in magazines, private television and online media.…”