Berlin School of Journalists

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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '28.1 "  N , 13 ° 24' 43.6"  E

The Berlin School of Journalism (BJS) was founded in 1986 in cooperation with the German School of Journalism in Munich. In 1989 she started her independent work in Berlin . It offers training and further education in the field of journalism . Over 100 seminar events take place every year.

organization

The BJS has been sponsored by the BJS Berliner Journalistenschule gUG (limited liability) since the end of 2015, after the previous sponsor, the BJS Berliner Journalisten-Schule gGmbH (since 1986), filed for bankruptcy in November 2015 in the course of a legal dispute among its shareholders. Due to the reorganization of the sponsorship, the gGmbH's largest single shareholder up to that point, the alumni association Friends and Sponsors of the Berliner Journalisten-Schule e. V., no longer part of the BJS sponsors. The journalists Olaf Jahn and Joachim Widmann are shareholders and managing directors of the non-profit UG . Until June 2012, the journalist and long-time headmaster Manfred Volkmar was the majority shareholder. In autumn 2012, he handed over his management duties to Jahn and Widmann.

BJS has had its headquarters at Knesebeckstrasse 74 in Berlin-Charlottenburg since mid-2017.

From 1992 to mid-2017, the Berlin School of Journalists was located in the press house on Alexanderplatz in Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 29 in Berlin-Mitte . The BJS had its own teaching studio there for radio and television seminars.

In its new rooms, the BJS has two more training rooms than in the press building.

further education

The advanced training is aimed at journalists in professional life who want to continue their education. Seminars are offered in various journalistic areas, for example print, radio, online and television courses. The fee-based courses finance the running of the school. Public relations seminars , which the school had previously offered to a greater extent, were taken over by the partner school bsjk Berliner Schule für Journalismus und Kommunikation GmbH in 2014, also to - according to the ethical rules of journalism - the non-profit education and training of journalists from PR - and separate marketing business.

education

Until 2009, the BJS had trained 16 young journalists every year in a total of 23 teaching editorial teams to become editors. The training lasted 15 months and was based on multimedia: There were teaching units on print, radio, online and television. It also included at least two three-month internships. There were regularly over 1000 applicants for the 16 places of the training year. The sponsoring association at the time assumed the costs, and the students had to provide for their own living.

In the early years, the free training was financed through charitable activities by the DJV Berlin, most recently through funds from the European Social Fund and the Berlin Senate . Since funding was discontinued in 2009, there is currently no training at the BJS.

The BJS is trying to reorganize the support structure and new content concepts to enable free training for the future.

Training projects

Since 2015, the Berlin School of Journalism has been working with the Robert Bosch Stiftung to support the scholarship holders of the “Reporters in the Field” program, which promotes cross-border investigative research projects.

From 2003 to 2015, the Berlin School of Journalists, in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation, offered young journalists from Central and Eastern Europe the opportunity to study and write in Berlin. The "media intermediaries" from Central and Eastern Europe traveled to Berlin for a three-month study and work stay. In return, German journalists with a good knowledge of the respective national language received scholarships for editorial stays in many Central and Eastern European countries.

From 2004 to 2010, the Berlin School of Journalists, together with the Federation of German Consumer Organizations and the Warentest Foundation, ran the “praxis4” trainee program for consumer journalists .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Statement by the BJS from March 2016, accessed on March 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Berlin School of Journalists - BJS Friends of the Largest Shareholders ( Memento of November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Shareholder profile of the BJS Friends, accessed on March 4, 2016
  3. ↑ BJS repositions itself: Volkmar leaves, Jahn and Widmann come BJS press release from June 18, 2012, accessed on June 18, 2012
  4. ↑ Application. 1000 inquiries, 16 places ( Memento from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). On: berliner-journalisten-schule.de. Retrieved November 18, 2009.
  5. ^ Der Tagesspiegel of December 17, 2008 , December 19, 2008 , December 20, 2008 , November 11, 2009 .
  6. Jump up ↑ Journalist School ( Memento from January 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from the BJS friends of May 18, 2010.