Deadline:
November 17, 2025
Location(s)
Belgium Germany Russia United States of America Worldwide
Berlin and Bonn; placement with DW foreign bureau (Washington, Brussels, Moscow)
Overview
We are looking for young people from all over the world interested in a comprehensive, exceptional quality journalism program with an international broadcaster. There's nothing like combining theory and practice, and that's exactly what our traineeship does. Everything you learn in the seminars can be directly applied to the internships that follow.
Details
"Intense, exhausting, competitive... and totally worth it!"
The program 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. After the traineeship, the trainees usually continue to work for DW.
Deutsche Welle's newly-designed traineeship takes you around the world in just 18 months. Internships with our English and German editorial departments give you a chance to look into economic and cultural issues as well as news and sports. You'll also be active in at least one of DW's other broadcast language departments such as the Chinese, Farsi or Spanish department, and support them according to your language skills. Regardless of the language you're working in youll be part of the editorial teams right from day one, writing and producing reports and conducting interviews for television, radio and online. At the core of the training is a total of six months of theory and practice-oriented seminar blocks looking at everything from journalism basics and live reports to data-driven journalism and mobile reporting. By the end of the traineeship you'll be an expert in multimedia storytelling.
The application period will be open from October 13, 2025, 12 noon (12 p.m. UTC+2) to November 17, 2025, 12 noon (12 p.m. UTC+1).
Overview
- 18 months
- trainee salary
- international broadcaster in 30 languages
- crossmedia: TV, online and radio
- six months of seminars
- internships in Berlin and Bonn
- placements with DW foreign bureaus (Washington, Brussels, Moscow)
- international multimedia projects
- well-known media trainers
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
We're looking for candidates from around the world who are interested in a comprehensive, quality journalism traineeship at an international broadcaster. Applicants should have journalistic experience or be passionate about switching to journalism from other professional fields such as law, business or science. Simply put: we're looking for highly creative candidates and ones with expertise from other disciplines. We're especially interested in applicants who use and create content for social media channels.
Trainees learn the skills and tools that future journalists need: everything from mobile reporting, multimedia storytelling and data journalism to social media journalism and virtual reality – in seminars, workshops, DW's editorial offices and DW foreign bureaus (Brussels/Washington). Trainees are constantly involved in innovative, international projects and after graduating often stay with DW, working as editors, reporters or correspondents.
For our bilingual (German-English) traineeship we have certain language requirements:
- Native speakers of a DW program language (list of the languages below) with excellent knowledge of English (C1/C2) and a good knowledge of German (B1/B2)
- English native speakers with a good knowledge of German (B1/B2)
- German native speakers with excellent knowledge of English (C1/C2)
Dates
Deadline: November 17, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
For the first six months of the program, trainees earn a pre-tax salary of 2.196 euros per month. This increases to 2.374 euros a month before tax for the following six months. For the final six months, trainees earn 2.473 euros per month before tax.
Deutsche Welle's traineeship is a full-time program. In exceptional cases, temporary employment outside of the program may be approved.
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