DW Akademie develops cross-media and practice-oriented education and training models.
Together with partners, we train media professionals who are up to the challenges of the digital media world and drive it forward as an avant-garde.
Journalism professor Walid Al Saqaf says journalists need to stop fixating on just fact checking. Here are his tips on what they should do instead to tackle disinformation.
Bidibidi Refugee Settlement supports hundreds of thousands refugees, mainly from South Sudan. Bidibidi FM is, for many, their main source of information.
Our second guest of 2024 is Abaas Mpindi, CEO of MCI Uganda. The youth-driven NGO prides itself in training the next generation of journalists – while also running a solutions journalism newsroom.
Abeer Al Ghussein was born and raised in Gaza. Like many female journalists in the region, she has faced numerous setbacks in her attempts to build a journalism career. With her participation in the EHNA project, a six months training program by Nisaa FM and DW Akademie, she hopes to challenge the status quo.
More than 355 media professionals from Africa applied for DW Akademie's Constructive Journalism Fellowship. Here are the 14 who made it.
Designing journalism formats isn't about magic or luck. It's about using creative techniques and user-focused approaches to come up with ideas that that can be put into practice.
DW Akademie and its Tunisian partners developed a 360° pilot module as part of a virtual training institute for journalists currently being established.
East Africa has undergone one of the worst droughts in more than 60 years. Somaliland is one of the regions affected.
Bolivia's media is highly polarized but a new program is finding common ground. Media on both sides of the political divide are supporting Latin America's first vocational training program for journalists.
Today a journalist must think, plan and produce in three media. DW-AKADEMIE's customized journalism training courses focus on how best to package topics and stories for television, radio and the Internet.
DW-AKADEMIE has already designed and carried out media training courses for numerous important institutions and companies.
From May 1st, 2008, Deutsche Welle will be providing its next journalism training course for candidates working in languages other than German. The required languages are:
If you intend to successfully work abroad, you have to be well prepared. Just having specialist knowledge from your own professional field is not enough.
The DW Training Centre (DWFZ) was founded in 1965 as an instrument of German media development cooperation. Today, the Centre offers a wide range of training for radio and television specialists.
Broadcasting stations cannot always offer programmes, which are equally interesting to all listeners or viewers. It is therefore useful to also offer programmes for an audience with special interests.
In order to inform people quickly and extensively, journalists need know-how in relevant areas, in addition to sound general knowledge.