Academy of vocational training for German newspaper publishers

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The Academy for Vocational Education of the German Newspaper Publishers e. V. (ABZV) was the educational agency of the German daily and weekly newspapers based in Königswinter . It was organized as a non-profit association. It ceased operations on September 30, 2016.

activities

  • Volunteer courses
  • Further training for journalists of all branches
  • Education and training of employees in journalistic educational work
  • Collection of statistical material for journalist training in Germany
  • Issuing a monthly newsletter

Board

The ABZV board was an association body that consisted of three people. In 2011 they were Dietmar Wolff (Managing Director of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV)), Dirk Glock and Hendrik Wüst . Beate Füth has been the technical director and managing director of the ABZV since 1989.

history

In 1989, the expanded presidium of the BDZV decided to found a “Working Group on Vocational Education for German Newspaper Publishers” (forerunner of the current ABZV), which worked until 1999 as a department of the BDZV. In 1999 the ABZV was founded and registered as a non-profit association. In 2014 the ABZV moved from Bonn-Röttgen to Königswinter. It ceased operations on September 30, 2016.

Furnishing

The club's headquarters and main venue was Königswinter. The office and conference rooms were located in the Koenigswinter Employee Center (AZK) in Koenigswinter. The academy had a PC room with 14 seats and 40 Macbooks for seminar exercises. In addition, external specialist seminars were held in Hanover, Würzburg and Dresden.

Lecturers

The majority of the lecturers were journalistic practitioners who work as salaried editors for newspapers, as well as freelance journalists and trainers.

education

The Vocational Education Academy of the German Newspaper Publishers was an institution for journalistic educational work for extra-occupational, inter-company training and further education of journalists.

The annual academy program comprised eleven fortnightly volunteer courses and a one-week cross-media training seminar. These events were external training measures according to Section 6 (4) of the collective agreement on editorial volunteer work.

Around 80 one- to three-day specialist seminars on topics from the areas of language, journalistic forms of presentation, research, press law, budget and business, cross-media , communication, editorial and self-management were used to further educate journalists .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. website of the ASF. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Website of the Koenigswinter Employee Center of Christian Social Policy. V. (AZK-CSP). Retrieved September 15, 2019 .