diff --git a/packages/vitec/Classes/UserFunc/NewsJsonRenderer.php b/packages/vitec/Classes/UserFunc/NewsJsonRenderer.php
index 43eeec7..5f3dbe6 100644
--- a/packages/vitec/Classes/UserFunc/NewsJsonRenderer.php
+++ b/packages/vitec/Classes/UserFunc/NewsJsonRenderer.php
@@ -155,7 +155,39 @@ final class NewsJsonRenderer
                 return json_encode($response) ?: '';
             }
 
+            // Server-side pagination for the big overview list (contract
+            // 0070-FE/0075-BE): only a plain/sticky list WITHOUT a limit and
+            // WITHOUT a hand-picked selection paginates. That is exactly the
+            // /insights/news element (#130); every teaser list carries a
+            // limit (1-3) and keeps today's full behaviour, as do selected/
+            // search lists - the frontend falls back to client-side paging
+            // wherever the `pagination` key is absent.
+            $paginated = in_array($type, ['news_pi1', 'news_newsliststicky'], true)
+                && (int)($settings['limit'] ?? 0) === 0
+                && trim((string)($settings['selectedList'] ?? '')) === '';
+
+            if ($paginated
+                && $this->cObj !== null
+                && $this->cObj->getUserObjectType() === ContentObjectRenderer::OBJECTTYPE_USER
+            ) {
+                // `page`/`category` sit in cacheHash.excludedParameters, so the
+                // TYPO3 page cache does NOT distinguish the query variants -
+                // a cacheable render would bake page 1 in for every URL. As
+                // USER_INT the element renders per request; EXT:headless wraps
+                // the INT marker itself (JsonContentObject detects
+                // '<!--INT_SCRIPT.'), and the SSR full-page cache keeps one
+                // variant per path+query, so per-request cost stays off the
+                // visitors' hot path.
+                $this->cObj->convertToUserIntObject();
+                return '';
+            }
+
             $newsRows = $this->fetchNewsList($contentElement, $settings);
+
+            if ($paginated) {
+                return $this->renderPaginatedList($contentElement, $settings, $newsRows);
+            }
+
             $items = array_map(fn (array $newsRow): array => $this->serializeNews($newsRow, $settings, 'list'), $newsRows);
 
             $response = [
@@ -360,6 +392,188 @@ final class NewsJsonRenderer
         ];
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Paginated list payload (contract 0070-FE/0075-BE): only the requested
+     * page's cards plus pagination meta, filter chips with full-list counts
+     * and the active category. Request: ?page=<n>&category=<slug> on the page
+     * URL; page is clamped into [1..pages] (page > pages serves the last
+     * page), an unknown category slug falls back to "all".
+     *
+     * @param array<string,mixed> $contentElement
+     * @param array<string,mixed> $settings
+     * @param array<int,array<string,mixed>> $rows full filtered list (no limit)
+     */
+    private function renderPaginatedList(array $contentElement, array $settings, array $rows): string
+    {
+        $queryParams = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_REQUEST']?->getQueryParams() ?? [];
+        $requestedPage = max(1, (int)($queryParams['page'] ?? 1));
+        $requestedCategory = strtolower(trim((string)($queryParams['category'] ?? '')));
+
+        // All categories of all entries in ONE query - feeds both the filter
+        // chips (counts over the FULL list, independent of the active filter)
+        // and the per-card category labels.
+        $categoriesByNews = $this->categoriesForNewsUids(
+            array_map(static fn (array $row): int => (int)($row['uid'] ?? 0), $rows)
+        );
+
+        $categoryIndex = [];
+        foreach ($rows as $row) {
+            foreach ($categoriesByNews[(int)($row['uid'] ?? 0)] ?? [] as $category) {
+                $slug = $this->slugify((string)$category['title']);
+                if ($slug === '') {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (!isset($categoryIndex[$slug])) {
+                    $categoryIndex[$slug] = [
+                        'uid' => (int)$category['uid'],
+                        'title' => (string)$category['title'],
+                        'slug' => $slug,
+                        'count' => 0,
+                    ];
+                }
+                $categoryIndex[$slug]['count']++;
+            }
+        }
+        ksort($categoryIndex);
+
+        $activeCategory = isset($categoryIndex[$requestedCategory]) ? $requestedCategory : '';
+
+        if ($activeCategory !== '') {
+            $rows = array_values(array_filter($rows, function (array $row) use ($categoriesByNews, $activeCategory): bool {
+                foreach ($categoriesByNews[(int)($row['uid'] ?? 0)] ?? [] as $category) {
+                    if ($this->slugify((string)$category['title']) === $activeCategory) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                }
+                return false;
+            }));
+        }
+
+        // Newest first, server-side (the flexform historically says
+        // "tstamp asc"; the frontend re-sorted - now it no longer has to).
+        usort($rows, static fn (array $a, array $b): int => ((int)($b['datetime'] ?? 0)) <=> ((int)($a['datetime'] ?? 0)));
+
+        $itemsPerPage = (int)($settings['list']['paginate']['itemsPerPage'] ?? 0);
+        if ($itemsPerPage <= 0) {
+            $itemsPerPage = 12;
+        }
+
+        $total = count($rows);
+        $pages = max(1, (int)ceil($total / $itemsPerPage));
+        $page = min($requestedPage, $pages);
+
+        $pageRows = array_slice($rows, ($page - 1) * $itemsPerPage, $itemsPerPage);
+
+        $items = array_map(
+            fn (array $row): array => $this->serializeListCard($row, $settings, $categoriesByNews[(int)($row['uid'] ?? 0)] ?? []),
+            $pageRows
+        );
+
+        $response = [
+            'mode' => 'list',
+            'items' => $items,
+            'pagination' => [
+                'page' => $page,
+                'pages' => $pages,
+                'itemsPerPage' => $itemsPerPage,
+                'total' => $total,
+            ],
+            'categories' => array_values($categoryIndex),
+            'activeCategory' => $activeCategory,
+            'settings' => $this->buildSettingsPayload($contentElement, $settings),
+        ];
+
+        return json_encode($response) ?: '';
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Lean card shape for paginated pages - only what the cards render
+     * (0070-FE field list); canonicalUrl, pathSegment, tags, related* are
+     * deliberately absent here.
+     *
+     * @param array<string,mixed> $news
+     * @param array<string,mixed> $settings
+     * @param array<int,array<string,mixed>> $categories
+     * @return array<string,mixed>
+     */
+    private function serializeListCard(array $news, array $settings, array $categories): array
+    {
+        $uid = (int)($news['uid'] ?? 0);
+        $urls = $this->buildNewsUrls($news, $settings);
+        $teaser = trim((string)($news['teaser'] ?? ''));
+
+        return [
+            'uid' => $uid,
+            'title' => (string)($news['title'] ?? ''),
+            'alternativeTitle' => (string)($news['alternative_title'] ?? ''),
+            'type' => (string)($news['type'] ?? '0'),
+            'detailUrl' => $urls['detailUrl'],
+            'datetime' => (int)($news['datetime'] ?? 0),
+            'istopnews' => (bool)($news['istopnews'] ?? false),
+            'teaser' => $teaser,
+            'bodytext' => $teaser !== '' ? '' : $this->listExcerpt((string)($news['bodytext'] ?? '')),
+            'categories' => array_map(
+                static fn (array $category): array => ['uid' => (int)$category['uid'], 'title' => (string)$category['title']],
+                $categories
+            ),
+            'media' => $this->resolveFiles('tx_news_domain_model_news', 'fal_media', $uid),
+        ];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * uid => categories map for a set of news records, resolved in one query
+     * (the per-record resolveCategories() would fire ~600 queries here).
+     *
+     * @param list<int> $newsUids
+     * @return array<int,array<int,array{uid:int,title:string}>>
+     */
+    private function categoriesForNewsUids(array $newsUids): array
+    {
+        $newsUids = array_values(array_filter($newsUids));
+        if ($newsUids === []) {
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        $queryBuilder = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ConnectionPool::class)
+            ->getQueryBuilderForTable('sys_category');
+
+        $rows = $queryBuilder
+            ->select('c.uid', 'c.title', 'mm.uid_foreign')
+            ->from('sys_category', 'c')
+            ->join('c', 'sys_category_record_mm', 'mm', 'mm.uid_local = c.uid')
+            ->where(
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('mm.tablenames', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('tx_news_domain_model_news', ParameterType::STRING)),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('mm.fieldname', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('categories', ParameterType::STRING)),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->in('mm.uid_foreign', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter($newsUids, ArrayParameterType::INTEGER)),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('c.deleted', 0),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('c.hidden', 0)
+            )
+            ->orderBy('c.title', 'ASC')
+            ->executeQuery()
+            ->fetchAllAssociative();
+
+        $map = [];
+        foreach ($rows as $row) {
+            $map[(int)$row['uid_foreign']][] = [
+                'uid' => (int)$row['uid'],
+                'title' => (string)$row['title'],
+            ];
+        }
+
+        return $map;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Category title -> filter slug ("Press Release" -> "press-release"),
+     * mirroring the slugs the page URLs already carry.
+     */
+    private function slugify(string $value): string
+    {
+        $value = mb_strtolower(trim($value));
+        $value = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]+/u', '-', $value) ?? $value;
+        return trim($value, '-');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Plain-text excerpt of an RTE body for list cards (teaser fallback).
      */
@@ -697,6 +911,9 @@ final class NewsJsonRenderer
                 $files[] = [
                     'uid' => (int)$row['uid'],
                     'url' => $imageService->getImageUri($processed),
+                    // Editor-maintained alt text; the frontend falls back to
+                    // the article title when this is empty (0070-FE, B5).
+                    'alternative' => (string)($fileReference->getAlternative() ?? ''),
                 ];
             } catch (\Throwable $e) {
                 continue;