Supporting change: 2011/2012 DW Akademie Annual Report

TRAINEESHIP: UNIQUE AND EXCEPTIONAL Deutsche Welle’s cross-media traineeship has an excellent and long-standing reputation. DW Akademie offers ­up-and-coming journalists in-depth, international, editorial training for radio, television and online media. Trainees also profit from the global orientation of Germany’s international broadcaster. In addition to a traineeship for German native speakers, DW offers a unique traineeship for young international journalists. Participants of both programs spend 1­ 8 months working in DW’s German and foreign language editorial offices and departments located in Bonn and Berlin. Trainees can also intern at DW studios in Brussels, Washington, Moscow or Berlin. They can choose their elective posting from a variety of media organizations ranging from CNN to the German radio service in Namibia.

Application deadlines are listed online at www.dw-akademie.de/traineeship