Post-migrant voices at times of hyper-visibility 135 immigrants, and both have a Palestinian parent. They describe themselves as “coming from disadvantaged areas” (Ohanwe in Krone 2020) and having many experiences of belonging to a marginalized group of people with migration backgrounds. However, this has not hindered them from entering higher edu- cation. Malcolm Ohanwe (born 1993) has studied language and literature and specialized in music journalism. Marcel Aburakia (born 1995) studied journalism and specialized in sports jour- nalism. Both have worked for public-service and private media, Ohanwe, for example, as a political correspondent from Nigeria for the English-language program of Deutsche Welle. Aburakia has worked as a freelancer for several sport channels and pub- lic-service broadcasters covering sports events. Aburakia now has a full-time job at the public-service broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Ohanwe at the German public broadcaster ZDF, where he hosts another podcast “Sack Reis” focusing on race, religion, feminism as funded by the public service broadcaster, SWR. In October 2020, they started their own biweekly column in the “Jetzt-Magazin” of the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. The two met during an internship at Bayrischer Rund- funk, a public-service broadcaster. Regarding working within mainstream media, they both “Quickly agreed that being marked as ‘foreign’ and working in German newsrooms can be a torture, that we can’t get many topics accepted. We are underestimated or misjudged and can never really play along” (Ohanwe & Aburakia, 2020). Because of the urge to be a voice that is listened to, and to gain recognition as competent journalists, they decided to start a podcast together. Having experience of journalistic work and knowledge of how to treat issues in a professional way supplied the poten- tial to gain recognition in the public sphere, which was of great advantage. Also, their social connections are not to be underes- timated, as Ohanwe bluntly points out: “If I hadn’t been a person with this Bavarian broad- casting background, then neither of us would be
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