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.
With Mara Bierbach, Çağrı Özdemir, Melis Yüksel, Elke Sandtner, Dennis Lichtenstein, Cordula Nitsch, Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Beenish Javed and Defne Altıok
How do you produce constructive journalism that resonates? In this Deep Dive workshop, journalists and market researchers from Germany’s international broadcaster share what works and why.
With Jennifer Holleis, Ingo Felscher, Mara Bierbach and Cristina Burack
Join our meet-up for newsletter creators and readers: a space to share successes, failures, and lessons learned. Together we explore how newsletters can grow audiences and bring constructive journalism straight to the inbox.
With Michael Oti, Elke Sandtner, Mara Bierbach, Özge Artunç, Melis Yüksel, Çağrı Özdemir, Elena Isayenko, Ingo Felscher, Jennifer Holleis and Fabian Lang
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.
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.