Opportunities

Deutsche Welle Journalism Traineeship

16.1.2018

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DW is looking for young people from all over the world interested in a comprehensive, exceptional quality journalism program with an international broadcaster. Candidates should have journalism experience or be passionate about switching to journalism from technology/IT, economics or the sciences. Opportunity is fully funded. Application deadline is on January 29, 2018.

Deutsche Welle Journalism Traineeship is looking for open-minded people full of creative ideas for the Traineeship.

The program of Deutsche Welle Journalism Traineeship covers the range of skills a journalist of the future needs:

TV moderation,
multimedia storytelling,
data journalism,
social media and virtual reality – in seminars, workshops and of course the DW editorial offices and our correspondent bureaux in Washington, Moscow, and Brussels.

DW trainees are involved in long-term innovative, international projects and have been honored in past years with the CNN Journalism Award and the Grimme Prize.

Main criteria

For the bilingual DW traineeship is looking for:

English native speakers with a good working knowledge of German OR
German native speakers with an excellent working knowledge of English OR
Native speakers of another DW program language (specifically Turkish, Russian, Farsi, Kiswahili and Hausa) with a good, working knowledge of both English and German.
Candidates must also have completed a university or college degree or apprenticeship.

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