London’s growing German community now have their own newspaper thanks to Christiane Link. Christiane, 31, has used her experience as a former BBC journalist to launch The German Link the UK’s only German language newspaper.Launched in March 2008, with 10,000 copies printed each month and distributed to over forty institutions and shops across the capital, the monthly publication has tapped into a niche market that has growing appeal to Germans here in the UK and in Germany.A wheelchair user since childhood, Christiane lives in Greenwich and came to London to work for the BBC in 2007. Before coming to the United Kingdom, she was an editor for the German Press Agency (Deutsche Presse-Agentur), the leading newswire in Germany. Whilst there, her German web blog ‘Behindertenparkplatz’ (Disabled parking bay) won the blog award for Deutsche Welle “Best German weblog” 2007. One of her dreams was to have her own media company, and in The German Link this has come to fruition, with several freelance journalists and photographers now working for her. Christiane says: “Head for Business provided me with practical advice and with innovative methods of raising the profile of The German Link; some of them in ways that I would never have considered, but have proven to work extremely well.”