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dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur is the largest German press agency with a presence in 100 countries around the world. Jan Mahler’s department has initially been part of the personnel and HR department but has now shifted its focus to the comprehensive coverage of media law matters, in close cooperation with the distribution team regarding contract and copyright law and particularly in close cooperation with the editorial team. ‘Thanks to this shift we are able to resolve a wide range of issues prior to our current media coverage or we are able to work closely with editorial in parallel to the ongoing news production’. A win for Mahler is when the legal department has been able to ‘find solutions and ways of formulating things that particularly with legally tricky topics ensure a mostly unrestricted but legally bulletproof reporting – and then to realise that other media have adopted our approach.’