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[[Some Chicago Teachers Hold Classes In the Snow to Avoid COVID Risks Inside Schools Katherine Fung 1 hr ago What's gotten into Mitch McConnell? (opinion) A Newsmax segment went off the rails when the MyPillow guy started… Newsweek logoSome Chicago Teachers Hold Classes In the Snow to Avoid COVID Risks Inside Schools Chicago teachers are braving the snow and holding classes outside as Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) continue to meet at the bargaining table. a person that is standing in the snow: Dwayne Reed, a language arts teacher from the south side of Chicago, teaches class virtually on January 25, 2021.© Dwayne Reed Dwayne Reed, a language arts teacher from the south side of Chicago, teaches class virtually on January 25, 2021. What began as a symbolic first day back transpired into a movement after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on teachers to return to in-person classrooms. Kirstin Roberts, a pre-K teacher, was asked to return to in-person on January 6 as part of wave 1, but she said none of her coworkers felt safe to do so. Roberts was especially concerned as she lives with her elderly mother. "We decided that instead of going inside the building to teach our remote students, we would teach outside," Roberts told Newsweek. "It was snowy and it was cold." The preschool team was the first group to be called back, but Roberts said they were quickly joined by other colleagues who wanted to show support. "We set up small tables in our courtyards. We were lucky the internet reached into the courtyard. Some of us taught class off our phones. Parents brought us hot coffee and set up a little backyard fire pit for us on the sidewalk," she recalled. "We taught our preschoolers and kindergarteners and the rest of the kiddos online like we do every day, but we did it in the snow." Although the teachers returned to their homes to continue teaching virtually the next day, the outdoor class caught the attention of other teachers concerned about their health and safety amid the coronavirus pandemic. Elementary language arts teacher Dwayne Reed decided to follow suit when he was called back to work last week. Although the first day was manageable, he quickly realized on the second day what exactly he had signed up for. "The wind started blowing unbelievably. I had a blanket and I was using the blanket as a cover but it became a wind tunnel and it was like a parachute," he told Newsweek. Despite the cold weather, Reed, whose wife is pregnant with their first child, said he remains determined to continue teaching outside to avoid mitigate the risk of bringing COVID-19 home. "I know that I can do my job effectively from my home," he said. "I just want to protect my wife and my child." Roberts said she would continue teaching outdoors too if that's what it will take for CPS to reconsider sending teachers back at this time. "It started at the school I work at and has spread to other buildings and other teachers are taking that stance. It's really a way to demonstrate how scared we are of the buildings and to make public what some of our concerns are," Roberts said. "I would certainly do that again." Lightfoot initially insisted that K-8 teachers show up for work in person on Monday, or risk being locked out of their virtual classrooms. But after most school buildings remained mainly empty, and CPS and CTU reached tentative agreements Monday night, it was announced that students would continue virtual learning through Wednesday after the district called for a "48-hour cooling off period." "Teachers need accommodations," elementary music teacher Quentin Washington told Newsweek. "We need to be able to say hey, I'm very uncomfortable with teaching in this building because I have a loved one at home who's at risk." Washington, who is also on the executive board of CTU, also taught a few of his classes outside after CPS told him he was to return to in-person learning on January 12. If he didn't, he would be considered absent without leave (AWOL) and locked out of his classroom. "The next day, I did actually go to the building—that's why they let me in [to the virtual classroom]—but with the intent of still teaching remotely outside of the building," he said. "I didn't want to be in that building because I really don't feel safe in there." He said he was locked out after that day and has remained barred from his classroom. CPS Communications Director Emily Bolton told Newsweek that Washington would be part of a small number of educators who were considered AWOL after not returning to in-person as part of wave 1. "Unless they went back into the building to work," these teachers will continue to be marked as AWOL, she said. Washington says Chicago teachers should not only be provided a safe reopening plan, but have access to vaccines if CPS insists they return to in-person learning. "Every teacher should have the opportunity to vaccinated before being asked to go back into that building," he said. "I understand there are vaccine shortages, but prioritize us. I'm not saying jump us ahead of the doctors and nurses. Of course they need to be vaccinated. They're dealing with sick people in a hospital in real-time, but we're essential workers too. If you're saying that we're essential, you need to vaccinate us." CPS teachers are scheduled to begin getting vaccines this month. Chicago schools moved online last March as the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S. When schools reopened in the fall for the 2021-2022 school year, CPS said classes would remain virtual, but in November, the district announced that classes would return to in-person instruction after the winter break. "Why should Chicago stand out when everybody else across the country has been able to safely do this? Why should CPS stand out when private and parochial schools in Chicago have been operating since the beginning of the school year?" CPS CEO Dr. Janice Jackson said on Sunday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. a statue of a person: Dwayne Reed, elementary language arts teacher in the south side of Chicago, pictured with a blanket as he teaches a virtual class from outdoors on January 26, 2021. Dwayne Reed© Dwayne Reed Dwayne Reed, elementary language arts teacher in the south side of Chicago, pictured with a blanket as he teaches a virtual class from outdoors on January 26, 2021. Dwayne Reed Washington said that teaching from remote has allowed him to conduct lessons that wouldn't be possible in-person. "Prior to the lockout, my students were working on recorders and I was teaching them to read music," he explained. "I can't have them blowing on the recorder in my classroom in person. That would require them to remove their face mask and it would require them to blowing aerosol in the air." He said limiting his curriculum seems even more detrimental when factoring in how many students this would impact. Washington said that only 20 percent of students are planning to return to in-person classes, but CPS is calling back 80 percent of their staff. Jacob Martin, a middle school math teacher, echoed those confusions about the urgency to return to schools when most children have opted for the remote option. He said it is important for CPS to continue developing online teaching plans so that all students receive the same quality of teaching. "Most teachers, most families and most principles have made it known that they don't think this plan is safe," he said. "I think it's important for a district, the third-largest district in the whole country, to make sure they're actually listening to the stakeholders who are involved in their education." Martin, who has luckily remained indoors when teaching, called Monday "anxiety-inducing." "After every class or during every class, my wifi would get a little sketchy and I was like is it happening now? But I ended up not getting locked out, which I'm really thankful for," he said. "I was able to see, talk to and continue to teach my students, which is exactly what we want to do." But Martin is hopeful that the two parties will strike a deal and that if teachers end up returning to schools, they will be able to do so safely. "Part of the hope comes from the fact that the mayor and the CEO of CPS have been constantly threatening us that they're going to lock us out, that they're going to declare us AWOL," he said. "But, they keep stepping back on that and allow us to keep teaching because I think they realize they need us to continue teaching and that's what we want to do. We want to keep teaching our students." In a statement made Monday evening, Jackson and Lightfoot said, "teams remain at the bargaining table with the goal of reaching a sensible agreement that allows Chicago's students and teachers to safely return to the classroom." With over 70 meetings conducted since June, Monday marks the first time CPS and CTU have reached tentative agreements. Related Articles Gavin Newsom, Facing Recall, Clashes With Teachers' Unions Over California Schools Opening Indiana Teenager Dies of COVID After Being Hospitalized for Over a Month Nashville Teacher Told to Quit for Protesting In-Person Learning Will File Complaints Chicago Teachers Defy Order to Return to In-Person Work, Cite COVID Fears Start your unlimited Newsweek trial|Some Chicago Teachers Hold Classes In the Snow to AvSoid COVID Risks Inside Schools Katherine Fung 1 hr ago What's gotten into Mitch McConnell? (opinion) A Newsmax segment went off the rails when the MyPillow guy started… Newsweek logoSome Chicago Teachers Hold Classes In the Snow to Avoid COVID Risks Inside Schools Chicago teachers are braving the snow and holding classes outside as Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) continue to meet at the bargaining table. a person that is standing in the snow: Dwayne Reed, a language arts teacher from the south side of Chicago, teaches class virtually on January 25, 2021.© Dwayne Reed Dwayne Reed, a language arts teacher from the south side of Chicago, teaches class virtually on January 25, 2021. What began as a symbolic first day back transpired into a movement after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on teachers to return to in-person classrooms. Kirstin Roberts, a pre-K teacher, was asked to return to in-person on January 6 as part of wave 1, but she said none of her coworkers felt safe to do so. Roberts was especially concerned as she lives with her elderly mother. "We decided that instead of going inside the building to teach our remote students, we would teach outside," Roberts told Newsweek. "It was snowy and it was cold." The preschool team was the first group to be called back, but Roberts said they were quickly joined by other colleagues who wanted to show support. "We set up small tables in our courtyards. We were lucky the internet reached into the courtyard. Some of us taught class off our phones. Parents brought us hot coffee and set up a little backyard fire pit for us on the sidewalk," she recalled. "We taught our preschoolers and kindergarteners and the rest of the kiddos online like we do every day, but we did it in the snow." Although the teachers returned to their homes to continue teaching virtually the next day, the outdoor class caught the attention of other teachers concerned about their health and safety amid the coronavirus pandemic. Elementary language arts teacher Dwayne Reed decided to follow suit when he was called back to work last week. Although the first day was manageable, he quickly realized on the second day what exactly he had signed up for. "The wind started blowing unbelievably. I had a blanket and I was using the blanket as a cover but it became a wind tunnel and it was like a parachute," he told Newsweek. Despite the cold weather, Reed, whose wife is pregnant with their first child, said he remains determined to continue teaching outside to avoid mitigate the risk of bringing COVID-19 home. "I know that I can do my job effectively from my home," he said. "I just want to protect my wife and my child." Roberts said she would continue teaching outdoors too if that's what it will take for CPS to reconsider sending teachers back at this time. "It started at the school I work at and has spread to other buildings and other teachers are taking that stance. It's really a way to demonstrate how scared we are of the buildings and to make public what some of our concerns are," Roberts said. "I would certainly do that again." Lightfoot initially insisted that K-8 teachers show up for work in person on Monday, or risk being locked out of their virtual classrooms. But after most school buildings remained mainly empty, and CPS and CTU reached tentative agreements Monday night, it was announced that students would continue virtual learning through Wednesday after the district called for a "48-hour cooling off period." "Teachers need accommodations," elementary music teacher Quentin Washington told Newsweek. "We need to be able to say hey, I'm very uncomfortable with teaching in this building because I have a loved one at home who's at risk." Washington, who is also on the executive board of CTU, also taught a few of his classes outside after CPS told him he was to return to in-person learning on January 12. If he didn't, he would be considered absent without leave (AWOL) and locked out of his classroom. "The next day, I did actually go to the building—that's why they let me in [to the virtual classroom]—but with the intent of still teaching remotely outside of the building," he said. "I didn't want to be in that building because I really don't feel safe in there." He said he was locked out after that day and has remained barred from his classroom. CPS Communications Director Emily Bolton told Newsweek that Washington would be part of a small number of educators who were considered AWOL after not returning to in-person as part of wave 1. "Unless they went back into the building to work," these teachers will continue to be marked as AWOL, she said. Washington says Chicago teachers should not only be provided a safe reopening plan, but have access to vaccines if CPS insists they return to in-person learning. "Every teacher should have the opportunity to vaccinated before being asked to go back into that building," he said. "I understand there are vaccine shortages, but prioritize us. I'm not saying jump us ahead of the doctors and nurses. Of course they need to be vaccinated. They're dealing with sick people in a hospital in real-time, but we're essential workers too. If you're saying that we're essential, you need to vaccinate us." CPS teachers are scheduled to begin getting vaccines this month. Chicago schools moved online last March as the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S. When schools reopened in the fall for the 2021-2022 school year, CPS said classes would remain virtual, but in November, the district announced that classes would return to in-person instruction after the winter break. "Why should Chicago stand out when everybody else across the country has been able to safely do this? Why should CPS stand out when private and parochial schools in Chicago have been operating since the beginning of the school year?" CPS CEO Dr. Janice Jackson said on Sunday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. a statue of a person: Dwayne Reed, elementary language arts teacher in the south side of Chicago, pictured with a blanket as he teaches a virtual class from outdoors on January 26, 2021. Dwayne Reed© Dwayne Reed Dwayne Reed, elementary language arts teacher in the south side of Chicago, pictured with a blanket as he teaches a virtual class from outdoors on January 26, 2021. Dwayne Reed Washington said that teaching from remote has allowed him to conduct lessons that wouldn't be possible in-person. "Prior to the lockout, my students were working on recorders and I was teaching them to read music," he explained. "I can't have them blowing on the recorder in my classroom in person. That would require them to remove their face mask and it would require them to blowing aerosol in the air." He said limiting his curriculum seems even more detrimental when factoring in how many students this would impact. Washington said that only 20 percent of students are planning to return to in-person classes, but CPS is calling back 80 percent of their staff. Jacob Martin, a middle school math teacher, echoed those confusions about the urgency to return to schools when most children have opted for the remote option. He said it is important for CPS to continue developing online teaching plans so that all students receive the same quality of teaching. "Most teachers, most families and most principles have made it known that they don't think this plan is safe," he said. "I think it's important for a district, the third-largest district in the whole country, to make sure they're actually listening to the stakeholders who are involved in their education." Martin, who has luckily remained indoors when teaching, called Monday "anxiety-inducing." "After every class or during every class, my wifi would get a little sketchy and I was like is it happening now? But I ended up not getting locked out, which I'm really thankful for," he said. "I was able to see, talk to and continue to teach my students, which is exactly what we want to do." But Martin is hopeful that the two parties will strike a deal and that if teachers end up returning to schools, they will be able to do so safely. "Part of the hope comes from the fact that the mayor and the CEO of CPS have been constantly threatening us that they're going to lock us out, that they're going to declare us AWOL," he said. "But, they keep stepping back on that and allow us to keep teaching because I think they realize they need us to continue teaching and that's what we want to do. We want to keep teaching our students." In a statement made Monday evening, Jackson and Lightfoot said, "teams remain at the bargaining table with the goal of reaching a sensible agreement that allows Chicago's students and teachers to safely return to the classroom." With over 70 meetings conducted since June, Monday marks the first time CPS and CTU have reached tentative agreements. Related Articles Gavin Newsom, Facing Recall, Clashes With Teachers' Unions Over California Schools Opening Indiana Teenager Dies of COVID After Being Hospitalized for Over a Month Nashville Teacher Told to Quit for Protesting In-Person Learning Will File Complaints Chicago Teachers Defy Order to Return to In-Person Work, Cite COVID Fears Start your unlimited Newsweek trial]]

This article is about the German international broadcaster. For the unrelated German radio company of the 1920s and 30s, see Deutsche Welle GmbH. For the musical genre, see Neue Deutsche Welle.

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle headquarters in Bonn
Type	International public broadcaster
Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Affiliates	World Radio Network
Headquarters	Bonn, Germany
Programming
Language(s)	German, English
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Government of Germany
Key people	Peter Limbourg (Director General)
History
Launched	30 May 1953 (1953-05-30)
Links
Website	DW.com

Deutsche Welle (German: [ˈdɔɪ̯.t͡ʃə ˈvɛ.lə] ; "German wave" in German) or DW is a German public state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 30 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English, German, Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own center for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. DW has developed a two-tier strategy to service their audience in the upcoming years: "a global approach aimed at disseminating information to a larger worldwide audience through expansion of international television services in English, Spanish, Arabic, and German and a regional approach focused on providing information tailored to the needs of particular regions, primarily through the Internet."

DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn, where its radio programmes are produced. However, television broadcasts are produced almost entirely in Berlin. Both locations create content for DW's news website.

It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media and audio.

As of 2018, around 1,500 employees and 1,500 freelancers from 60 countries work for Deutsche Welle in its offices in Bonn and Berlin. The Director-General of DW is Peter Limbourg.

History

Beginnings

DW's first shortwave broadcast took place on 3 May 1953 with an address by the then West German President, Theodor Heuss. On 11 June 1953, ARD public broadcasters signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle. At first, it was controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). In 1955, NWDR split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), WDR assumed responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming. In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an independent public body after a court ruled that while broadcasting to Germany was a state matter, broadcasting from Germany was part of the federal government's foreign-affairs function. On 7 June 1962, DW joined ARD as a national broadcasting station. Deutsche Welle was originally headquartered in the West German city of Cologne. After reunification, when much of the government relocated to Berlin, the station's headquarters moved to Bonn.

German reunification

With German reunification in 1990, Radio Berlin International (RBI), East Germany's international broadcaster ceased to exist. Some of the RBI staff joined Deutsche Welle and DW inherited some broadcasting facilities, including transmitting facilities at Nauen, as well as RBI's frequencies.

DW (TV) began as RIAS-TV, a television station launched by the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor) in August 1988; they also acquired the German Educational Television Network in the United States. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992, Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German- and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite, DW (TV), adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time, DW (TV) introduced a new news studio and a new logo.

Deutsche Welle took over some of the former independent radio broadcasting service Deutschlandfunk's foreign-language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was absorbed into the new Deutschlandradio.

In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published material. For example, the South-Asia Department published German Heritage: A Series Written for the South Asia Programme in 1967 and in 1984 published African Writers on the Air. Both publications were transcripts of DW programming.

Internet presence

In September 1994, Deutsche Welle was the first public broadcaster in Germany with an internet presence, initially www-dw.gmd.de, hosted by the GMD Information Technology Research Center. For its first two years, the site listed little more than contact addresses, although DW's News Journal was broadcast in RealAudio from Real's server beginning in 1995, and Süddeutsche Zeitung's initial web presence, which included news articles from the newspaper, shared the site. In 1996, it evolved into a news website using the URL dwelle.de; in 2001, the URL changed to www.dw-world.de, and was changed again in 2012, to www.dw.de. Deutsche Welle purchased the domain dw.com, which previously belonged to DiamondWare, in 2013; DW had attempted to claim ownership of the address in 2000, without success. DW eventually moved to the www.dw.com domain on 22 June 2015. According to DW, their website delivers information by topic with an intuitive navigation organized to meet users' expectations. The layout offers more flexibility to feature pictures, videos and in-depth reporting on the day's events in a multimedia and multilingual fashion. They also integrated their Media Center into the dw.de website making it easier for users to access videos, audios and picture galleries from DW's multimedia archive of reports, programs and coverage of special issues.

DW's news site is in seven core languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, and Russian), as well as a mixture of news and information in 23 other languages in which Deutsche Welle broadcasts. Persian became the site's eighth focus language in 2007.

German and European news is DW's central focus, but the site also offers background information about Germany and German language courses. Deutsch, Warum Nicht? (literally: German, Why Not?) is a personal course for learning the German language, created by Deutsche Welle and the Goethe-Institut.

Recent events

In 2001, Deutsche Welle (in conjunction with ARD and ZDF) founded the German TV subscription channel for North American viewers. The project was shut down after four years owing to low subscriber numbers. It has since been replaced by the DW-TV channel (also a subscription service).

Unlike most other international broadcasters, DW-TV does not charge terrestrial stations for use of its programming, and as a result, Journal and other programmes are rebroadcast on numerous public broadcasting stations in several countries, including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In the Philippines, selected Anglophone programmes are shown nationwide on Net 25.

Deutsche Welle is still suffering from financial and staffing cuts. Its budget was reduced by about €75 million over five years, and of the 2,200 employees it had in 1994, only 1,200 remain. Further cuts are still expected.

In 2003, the German government passed a new "Deutsche Welle Act", which defined DW as a tri-media organization, making the Deutsche Welle website an equal partner with DW-TV and DW Radio. The website is available in 30 languages, but focuses on German, English, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic. Persian became the eighth focus language in 2007.

In March 2009, DW-TV expanded its television services in Asia with two new channels, namely DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+. DW-TV Asia (DW-TV Asien in German) contains 16 hours of German programming and 8 hours in English, whilst DW-TV Asia+ contains 18 hours of English programmes plus 6 hours of German programmes.

In August 2009, DW-TV's carriage in the United Kingdom on Sky channel 794 ceased, although the channel continues to be available via other European satellites receivable in the UK.

In 2011, DW announced a major reduction of service including the closure of most of its FM services in the Balkans (except for Romani), but that it would expand its network of FM partners in Africa. The radio production for Hausa, Kiswahili, French, and Portuguese for Africa were optimized for FM broadcasts and DW also produces a regional radio magazine daily in English, to be rebroadcast by partners in Africa.

Audio content in Arabic is distributed online, via mobile, or rebroadcast by partners.

DW announced it would focus on FM partnerships for Bengali, Urdu, Dari/Pashtu, and Indonesian for South Asia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

On 1 November 2011, DW discontinued shortwave broadcasts in German, Russian, Persian, and Indonesian and ended its English service outside Africa. Chinese programming was reduced from 120 minutes to 60 minutes a week. As of November 2011, DW only broadcast radio programming via shortwave in: Amharic, Chinese, Dari, English and French for Africa, Hausa, Kiswahili, Pashtu, Portuguese for Africa and Urdu.

The budget of the Deutsche Welle for 2016 was 301.8 million euros.

On 25 February 2018, DW-TV published "The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil's Campaign of Deception" (2018) after documents confirmed big oil companies have known the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957.

Rebranding television news

On 22 June 2015, DW TV launched a 24-hour English-language news channel with a new design and a new studio as part of a rebrand to DW News. Previously, DW's news programmes were called Journal and broadcast in English in 3-, 15- and 30-minute blocks. The new channel offers 30-minute updates every hour and 60-minute programmes twice a day on weekdays. DW News broadcasts from Berlin but frequently has live social media segments hosted from a specially-designed studio in Bonn. The German, Spanish and Arabic channels also received a new design.

At the same time, DW's news website moved from a .de URL to .com and added a social media stream to its front page. The refreshed DW services were launched under the tagline 'Made for Minds'.

Plans for the future

Deutsche Welle has developed a two-tier approach that they are using for future growth of their company which consists of a global approach and a regional approach. Within their global approach, DW has now made plans to boost its competitiveness market throughout the world with news and television coverage. The plan implements covering mostly all regions of the world with two television channels in each region. With some exclusions, the entire world will be covered. Hours covered ranges throughout regions and the coverage will be in 4 different languages: German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.

The regional approach looks at marketing over the internet to offer news coverage in languages other than the 4 being offered. With updates on DW's website news will be better tailored to each region. Over time, their plan is to diversify their online coverage with more regional content being covered.

Logos

• Original logo (1953)
  Original logo (1953)
• Deutsche Welle logo (1992–1995), introduced following the start of Deutsche Welle TV in 1992
  Deutsche Welle logo (1992–1995), introduced following the start of Deutsche Welle TV in 1992
• 
  Deutsche Welle logo (1995–2012), intended to suggest a radio wave, although it drew comparisons to the Nike Swoosh
• 
  DW logo (2012–present)

Broadcast languages

Language	Began	Ceased	Remarks
German	1953		TV
English *	1954		Radio & TV
French *			Radio
Spanish			TV
Portuguese			Radio
Arabic	1959		TV
Persian	1962
Turkish
Russian
Polish *
Czech *		2000
Slovak *		2000
Hungarian *		2000
Serbo-Croatian *		1992
Swahili	1963		Radio
Hausa			Radio
Indonesian (Malay)
Bulgarian
Romanian *
Slovene		2000
Modern Greek	1964		Radio
Hindi
Bengali
Urdu
Italian *		1998
Chinese	1965
Amharic			Radio
Sanskrit	1966	1998
Japanese	1969	2000
Macedonian
Pashto	1970		Radio
Dari			Radio
Serbian	1992
Croatian
Albanian
Bosnian	1997
Danish *	1965	1998
Norwegian *
Swedish *
Dutch *	1967
Ukrainian	2000
Belarusian	2005	before 2011

 * partly by Deutschlandfunk (until 1993)

Controversy or censorship

On 10 April 2019, DW announced that Venezuela's state telecoms regulator Conatel had halted its Spanish-language channel. By 15 April, the broadcasting service was restored.

Also in 2019, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused DW of calling on Russians to take part in recent anti-government protests, and threatened it would take action against the outlet under domestic law if it made such calls again. Shortly after, Russia's parliament accused DW of breaking election legislation and asked the foreign ministry to consider revoking the German broadcaster's right to work in the country. By November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared he did not support banning foreign media outlets.

There has also been controversy in the way the German broadcasters of DW cover domestic stories. In German society, journalists have been known to shape perspectives of the national identity using terms or the themes they choose to cover. According to William Silcock, "research in the bicultural (German and English) newsroom at Deutsche Welle provided the opportunity to see how national myths were forged and maintained by the dominant culture and how such myths were accepted or resisted by the other." Silcock explains his research by saying, "Transporting an understanding of the past – this German national myth – through global television was an unarticulated, but very present, goal of the Deutsche Welle's news organization."

Shortwave relay stations

Transmitter sites in Germany

The Jülich radio transmitter site began operation in 1956 with eleven 100 kW Telefunken transmitters.

The Wertachtal site was authorized in 1972 and began service with four 500 kW transmitters. By 1989 there were 15 transmitters, four of which relayed the Voice of America.

The Nauen transmitter site was inherited from Radio Berlin International. RBI's Russian-made three 500 kW and one 100 kW transmitters were replaced by four Telefunken 500 kW transmitters and four rotatable antennas. Deutsche Welle no longer uses any of its transmitters in Germany.

Shortwave relay stations outside Germany

• Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (1984 to 2013) sold to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation
  • 3 × 250 kW shortwave transmitters
  • 1 × 400 kW mediumwave transmitter
  • 20 antennas (to be verified)
• Kigali, Rwanda: A relay station in Kigali, Rwanda, was inaugurated on 30 August 1963, and provided coverage for Africa. This relay station closed 28 March 2015.
  • 4 × 250 kW shortwave transmitters
• Sines, Portugal closed on 30 October 2011 and was due to be dismantled after a few months.
  • 3 × 250 kW shortwave transmitters

DW used a relay station in Malta had three SW and one 600 kW-MW transmitter and gave partial coverage of the Americas, Southern Asia and the Far East. It was inaugurated on 29 July 1974 in exchange for a grant of almost 1 million GBP. The station closed in January 1996.

Formerly, DW shared a transmitting station on Antigua in the Caribbean with the BBC. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1976 and closed on 31 March 2005. It had a relay-exchange with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that allowed DW to use two 250 kW transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick until that facility closed down in 2012.

In July 2011 Deutsche Welle began implementing a major reform. The main changes have been a radical reduction of shortwave radio broadcasting—from a daily total of 260 to 55 hours—and an expansion of television broadcasting.

Relay stations leasing transmitter time to DW

In 2013, DW leased time on the following relay stations:

• Woofferton, United Kingdom (BBC World Service)
• Kranji, Singapore (BBC Far Eastern Relay Station)
• Dhabayya, United Arab Emirates (United Emirates Radio)
• Nakhon Sawan, Thailand (BBC East Asian Relay Station)
• Ascension Island (BBC Atlantic Relay Station)
• Meyerton, South Africa (Sentech)

Directors-General

• 12 October 1960 – 29 February 1968: Hans Otto Wesemann
• 1 March 1968 – 29 February 1980: Walter Steigner
• 1 March 1980 – 8 December 1980: Conrad Ahlers
• 19 December 1980 – 30 June 1981: Heinz Fellhauer (interim)
• 1 July 1981 – 30 June 1987: Klaus Schütz
• 1 July 1987 – 30 June 1989: Heinz Fellhauer
• 1 July 1989 – 31 March 2001: Dieter Weirich
• 1 April 2001 – 30 September 2001: Reinhard Hartstein (interim as deputy intendant)
• 1 October 2001 – 30 September 2013: Erik Bettermann
• 1 October 2013 – present: Peter Limbourg

DW services

• DW (Radio): shortwave, cable TV, satellite and digital radio (DRM) broadcasting in 29 languages, with a 24-hour service in German and English
• DW (TV): satellite television broadcasting mainly in German, English, Arabic and Spanish.
• www.dw.com: 30-language news website
• Deutsche Welle maintains live video streams on YouTube in German, English, Spanish and Arabic, as well as several channels with recorded videos in various categories and languages.

DW Akademie

DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle's international center for media development, media consulting and journalism training. It offers training and consulting services to partners around the world. It works with broadcasters, media organizations, and universities especially in developing and transitioning countries to promote free and independent media. The work is funded mainly by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. Additional sponsors are the German Foreign Office and the European Union.

DW Akademie's journalism traineeship is an 18-month program for young journalists that provides editorial training in the three areas in which Deutsche Welle produces content: radio, television and online. It is aimed at aspiring journalists from Germany as well as from regions to which Deutsche Welle broadcasts.

The "International Media Studies" Master's Program, offered in cooperation with the University of Bonn and the University Bonn-Rhein-Sieg of Applied Sciences, is based at DW Akademie. The four-semester program combines the disciplines of media development, media regulation, and communications. The seminars are held in English and German and the degree is aimed at media representatives from developing and transitioning countries.

Carsten von Nahmen became head of DW Akademie in September 2018. He had been DW's senior correspondent in Washington since February 2017 and prior to this, deputy editor-in-chief and head of DW's main news department since 2014. Christian Gramsch was director of DW Akademie from November 2013 until May 2018, and prior to this DW's regional director for multimedia. He succeeded DW Akademie director Gerda Meuer, who had previously been deputy editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle's radio program, and had earlier worked for various media outlets and as a correspondent for Inter News service. Ute Schaeffer has been DW Akademie's deputy head since 2014 and was previously Deutsche Welle's editor-in-chief.

Learn German section

Deutsche Welle's website has a section dedicated to providing material for those who are interested in learning the German language. Among the material available in their site, they offer free access to an animated series called Harry lost in Time (Harry gefangen in Zeit), for beginners. Through Flash animation, the series tell the story of a fictional character named Harry Walkott, a man who is struck by lightning in the Black Forest during his vacation in Germany and, because of this, becomes stuck in time, with the same day repeating over and over. With an English narration, the series introduces German expressions, words and grammar explanations, and also provides exercises to the user.

See also

• Euronews
• Karin Helmstaedt – DW presenter for the Euromaxx culture and lifestyle show
• Max Hofmann – Brussels Bureau Chief for DW in Belgium

References

Sources

• McPhail, Thomas L. Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends. 2006, Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-3427-5.
• Wallis, Roger, and Stanley J. Baran. The Known World of Broadcast News: International News and the Electronic Media. 1990, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03604-6.
• Wood, James. History of International Broadcasting. 2000, Institution of Engineering and Technology. ISBN 0-85296-920-1.

External links

• Official website
• DW Akademie
• "DW International Weblog Award". The Bobs. 2016.
• Live Audio Stream
• Official documentary YouTube channel