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Reporters Without Borders Award presented for the fourth time at Deutsche Welle’s annual international weblog awards, The BOBs. Jean-François Julliard, Reporters Without Borders secretary-general, offers his views.

DW-RADIO celebrates 45th anniversary of service in Indonesia and, for the first time ever, blogs in Indonesian will be included and recognized at Deutsche Welle’s international blogging awards, The BOBs.

Deutsche Welle continues to develop innovative television programming for people in Arabic countries. Director General Erik Bettermann: “We are increasing Germany’s media presence in this important region and intensifying the dialogue.”

DW to work with bdnews24.com, Bangladesh’s first online bilingual news source, on training, technology and content.

DW-TV presents Enrique Sánchez Lansch’s documentary about Gustavo Dudamel and the “Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela”. Deutsche Welle premieres the film during the Beethovenfest in Bonn.

Russia is this year’s partner country for the Orchestra Campus – a Deutsche Welle initiative.

New partnership between Deutsche Welle and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) means that DW-RADIO will be broadcast over campus radio throughout India.

The limitations in the main press center at the Beijing Olympic Games have fully illustrated how Beijing views freedom of the press and freedom of opinion.

Starting July 15, “Campus Bremen: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders” will put Jacobs University in focus. Deutsche Welle highlights the school and environment from the students' perspective.

Joint project from Deutsche Welle, University of Bonn and the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences will begin in the winter of 2009.

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, an interdisciplinary conference with approximately 900 participants from 100 countries comes to an end on June 4, 2008. The second Global Media Forum will take place in Bonn in 2009.

A new, television coproduction from Deutsche Welle and Egypt TV focuses on young people, their thoughts and opinions.

The bi-medial, distance education project was developed primarily with the participation of African journalists and authors of audio books, and will be transmitted via radio and the Internet.

170 journalists have already registered for the event in Bonn – accreditation must be completed by May 28.

The Global Media Forum features workshops with journalists and international experts on “Covering Hostile Environments – From Conflict Zones to Organized Crime”, “Terrorists Online” and “Populism and Press Freedom”.

Photo exhibition can be seen at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in June, as well as New York and Tokyo this fall. Among the photographers is the “World Press Photo” winner Tim Hetherington.

Radio Vocea Basarabiei, a new DW partner station, is now broadcasting programming from DW-RADIO to its listeners throughout Moldova and bordering areas.

This year’s conference will focus on “Media in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention” and will take place from June 2-4 at the World Conference Center Bonn. Keynote speakers include Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Shirin Ebadi.

Robert Zoellick: ‘We need to be an open market - and this is not only about quotas and tariffs."

DW-TV will broadcast live from the biggest New Year’s Eve party in Germany at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

DW opens Digital Media Campus at the German University in Cairo, giving students the chance to produce and broadcast digital radio and mobile TV

Deutsche Welle announces the winners of the “International Weblog Awards – The BOBs 2007”

Stefan Nestler wins the “European Radio Award 2007” in the category “Best Sports Special” for his radio feature about an expedition to the Himalayas and Monika Dittrich wins the “Central Germany Journalist Award.”

Deutsche Welle (DW) and National Public Radio (NPR) have announced a unique partnership that will allow additional radio listeners in several locations worldwide to hear programming from Deutsche Welle, Germany’s news broadcaster.