Ute Schaeffer

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Ute Schaeffer (left) at the award ceremony of the Association for International Broadcasting (2009)

Ute Schaeffer (born September 29, 1968 ) is a German journalist. She is the press spokesperson for GIZ and heads media and public relations work. From 2011 to 2014 she was editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle , then deputy head of DW Akademie .

Professional background

Ute Schaeffer studied art history, history, comparative literature and Romance studies at the University of Bonn. During her studies she worked as a freelance journalist for print media, radio and television. After training as an editor at Deutsche Welle, she initially worked from 1996 to 1999 as an editor for economics and politics at the German international broadcaster. In 1999 she moved to DW's Central-Eastern Europe editorial team as head of duty. There she was responsible for setting up the new Ukrainian program, which she headed from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, Ute Schaeffer, in addition to her position as head of DW Radio French, moved to DW's Africa department, which included multimedia programs in English, French, Portuguese, Hausa, Swahili and Amharic as well as Arabic. From 2011 to 2014 Ute Schaeffer was editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle, responsible for the multimedia content (TV, radio and online) in 28 different languages. During this time she was responsible for various multimedia productions, including the project Plan B - Young Paths Out of the Crisis , which won the Grimme Online Award .

From 2014 to 2019, Ute Schaeffer was the deputy head of DW Akademie and was responsible for media development cooperation projects in more than 50 countries around the world. Schaeffer has been working as press spokeswoman and head of media and public relations at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH since March 2019. Her area of ​​responsibility also includes digital communication. As a non-profit federal company, GIZ is active worldwide in development and international cooperation.

Long stays abroad led Ute Schaeffer u. a. in 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf States and Eastern Europe. Her journalistic reporting focuses on: a. International politics, human rights and political transformation processes.

Publications

  • Fake instead of fact. How populists, bots and trolls attack our democracy. dtv, 2018
  • Act Digital! How the media in Africa contribute to democracy and development. In : C SR and digitization: digital change as an opportunity and challenge for business and society, Berlin: Springer Gabler, 2017
  • Share, post, follow ... win? The new information wars / Ute Schaeffer. Ibid.
  • Just away. The escape of the children. dtv , 2016
  • No right to digital participation in many countries, https://www.boell.de/de/2016/09/13/shrinking-civic-spaces-das-recht-auf-digitale-teilhabe-wird-vielen-regionen
  • Ukraine: Reports from a country on the move, Wagenbach 2015
  • Journalistic work in the convergent market . In: Handbuch International Media Studies, Vol. 1, 2011
  • Africa's doers - Africa's decision-makers. Reports on the African present. March 2011
  • Don't talk about but with us In: Köhler, Horst: Schicksal Afrika , Rowohlt, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturportal-deutschland.de
  2. ↑ Ute Schaeffer new editor-in-chief, Deutsche Welle, November 18, 2011 ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/8029?year=2011
  4. ↑ http://www.dw.de/themen/plan-b/s-32039
  5. ↑ http://uteschaeffer.de/
  6. ^ Matthias Hannemann: Deutsche Welle: Strengthen the basic right to information . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/uteschaeffer
  8. ↑ CSR and digitization: digital change as an opportunity and challenge for business and society in SearchWorks catalog. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Wirth & Horn - Informationssysteme GmbH - www.wirth-horn.de: Just away from Ute Schaeffer | dtv . ( dtv.de [accessed on July 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffer, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1968