It's amazing how much Felix Michels finds

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In this way, Michels draws attention to the risks that arise from disclosing personal data on the Internet and to what alternatives there are, "without coming across as didactic," says Thiel, justifying the jury's vote.

Juror Sebastian Sprenger from the DATEV-Stiftung Zukunft explains, "With over 500,000 YouTube subscribers, Felix Michels is a mouthpiece for young people and manages to do valuable educational work with his reporting." He hits exactly the tone of his target group.

In the report "Tracking: A day on the Internet - botim database what traces do I leave behind", which was voted "Best Radio Report", author Christian Schiffer begins the day with the voice-controlled virtual assistant "Alexa" after his fitness bracelet reminds him that he had a short, deep sleep and is overweight. As a "real data hog", Schiffer wants to find out how big his data trail is on the Internet - and in doing so, he drowns in the amount of data he receives.

"This is the Internet in 2019: I am being tracked, sorted, scanned. And hardly anyone is as good at it as Facebook," says Schiffer. His Facebook data comprises 17 gigabytes and, among other things, revealed that he would potentially change his mobile device.