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Mara Bierbach is a journalist, journalism trainer and passionate advocate for constructive reporting. She co-organizes the DW-Bonn Institute Constructive Journalism Fellowship, and recently celebrated her ten-year-anniversary at Deutsche Welle/DW. She also works for InfoMigrants, a multilingual outlet covering migration to and within Europe.

Mara Bierbach

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eventmanufaktur Bonn

// Erdgeschoss

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Newsletter Meet-Up: Sharing Ideas on How to Succeed With a Constructive Newsletter

With Jennifer Holleis, Ingo Felscher, Mara Bierbach and Cristina Burack

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Deutsche Welle

// Deutsche Welle

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Constructive Transformation – Insights from Deutsche Welle

With Michael Oti, Elke Sandtner, Mara Bierbach, Özge Artunç, Melis Yüksel, Çağrı Özdemir, Elena Isayenko, Ingo Felscher and Jennifer Holleis

How can media organizations, newsrooms and individual journalists produce more and better constructive reporting? This Deep Dive offers insights from different teams at DW, Germany’s international public broadcaster. You will hear from news journalists on how to produce more constructive reports in a time crunch and from the team that created a new constructive newsletter. The session includes a behind-the-scenes tour through Deutsche Welle.

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LVR LandesMuseum

// Workshop II

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Lessons Learned from the DW Constructive Journalism Fellowship

With Mara Bierbach, Lisa Urlbauer, Alena Zhabina and Zobaer Ahmed

How can news organizations foster constructive journalism? DW, Germany's international broadcaster, launched a one of a kind training program for its journalists in partnership with the Bonn Institute in 2023. At this talk, fellows Alena Zhabina and Zobaer Ahmed will share what they learned about reporting constructively, including in a fast-paced news environment and on difficult issues. And organizers and trainers Lisa Urlbauer and Mara Bierbach will talk about what they learned works (and what doesn't) when training a diverse group of journalists in constructive reporting.

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Haus der Bildung

// Volkshochschule 2

Kurz, knackig, konstruktiv: Videos für Social Media produzieren – ein Einführungskurs

Mit Mara Bierbach and Anne-Sophie Brändlin

Wie genau sieht konstruktiver Journalismus in der Praxis aus? In diesem Workshop werden wir kurze Videoformate produzieren, die lustig, informativ und - natürlich - konstruktiv sind!