Education

Ute Schaeffer is a Head of Media Development Department and a Deputy Director of Deutsche Welle Akademie. Deutsche Welle Akademie is Germany’s leading organization for international media development. The Akademie supports the development of free and transparent media, quality journalism, and also offers programs to boost media skills. DW Akademie works in more than 50 countries worldwide. From 2011 to 2014 Ute Schaeffer was editor-in-chief. Her journalistic fields of research and report are all items of Human Rights, Political and Economic Development and the challenges in the process of democratic transition. For Deutsche Welle Ute Schaeffer has bee reporting from different countries in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Find the latest publications and articles in english on her website. In may 2018 will be published her new book “Fake not Fact – How Populists, Bots and Trolls Attack Democracy”.