Deutsche Welle is streamlining its training and teaching activities with the founding of the DW Academy which came into existence at the beginning of January 2004. DW Academy will act as an umbrella organisation for two existing DW training centres in Bonn for radio and Berlin for television.
The Academy will be training young journalists just starting out on their careers. Plans are also being drawn up to offer intercultural media training for German business people who are to be posted abroad.
The key activity of the DW Academy is the training of broadcasting staff from developing countries. This will be funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development. Gerda Meuer, the newly appointed head of the DW Academy, announced that a special course is being set up for young trainee journalists who live in parts of the world to which DW broadcasts programmes.
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