Kersten A. Riechers studied online journalism at h_da University of Applied Sciences (h-da.de) and has worked in several online newsrooms including the ones of ZEIT Online (zeit.de), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (faz.net) and of German start-up magazine Gründerszene (gruenderszene.de). In 2010 he co-founded the Germany-based online communications agency quäntchen + glück (qundg.com) from where he works as a consultant to local publishing houses.