Axel Springer Academy

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The Axel Springer Academy is the journalism school of Axel Springer SE in Berlin. It also functions as a training facility for the editors at Axel Springer SE. The director is Marc Thomas Spahl, his predecessor was Jan-Eric Peters from 2007 to 2010 .

The academy is the successor to the Axel Springer School of Journalism, which was founded in 1986 and trained around 1150 journalists . In 2008 it was recognized for its training concept by the location initiative of the federal government as a place in the land of ideas . Since 2009 it has been a partner institute of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

The Academy awards the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists every year and organizes the Scoop ideas competition , which is endowed with half a million euros. Like the former Axel Springer journalism school , the academy is named after the founder of today's Axel Springer SE, the publisher Axel Springer (1912–1985).

In 2015 the Axel Springer Academy cooperated with the World Media Academy .

education

Around 40 journalists are trained every year. For the first six months, the journalism students are taught directly at the academy and learn, in addition to the classic craft, cross-media work with text, video and audio. Online journalism is a focus of the academy. The journalism students work for Die Welt Kompakt for the next six months . You spend the second year mainly in the various editorial offices of Axel Springer Verlag and also complete external internships.

Details on admission requirements and work content are available online.

Advisory Board

The advisory board consists of eight members: Friede Springer , Wolf Lepenies (including the Peace Prize Winner of the German Book Trade ), Dieter Stolte (including 20 years director of ZDF ), Ernst Elitz (until March 31, 2009 director of Deutschlandradio ), Michael Stürmer (historian), Hellmuth Karasek (literary critic, formerly a member of the Literary Quartet ), Christoph Stölzl (including former director of the German Historical Museum and Berlin Senator for Culture), George Weidenfeld (publisher).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASA goes USA (and vice versa) . axel-springer-akademie.de. September 9, 2009. Accessed April 1, 2018.
  2. ^ Call for tenders Scoop ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Rundfunkt verdi. In: Newsletter. 2015, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Apply to the Axel Springer Academy