Through continual sustainability reporting taking the maximum GRI „Standards of Disclosure“ into account, Axel Springer SE is underlining its special responsibility as a media company – from journalistic independence and the separation of advertising and editorial texts via the promotion of media literacy among young readers up to data protection as well as the transparency of social and environmental The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sees itself as an ongoing international dialog which, through the defi nition of performance indicators, involves a number of stakeholder groups worldwide.