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Denmark – (C8) Professional training

Score in short:

Continuous “knowledge” training for journalists in news media are available and are usually funded by the employer.

Score in detail:

Professional training, in particular, also with respect to data and investigative journalism, is widely available and well-established. The Danish Media Association and The Danish Union of Journalist’s collaborate for the Educational Fund of the Press, which finances training courses for its members (including unemployed ones) as part of the collective wage agreement (Pressens Uddannelsesfond, 2020). This system is, however, heavily geared towards persons in traditional journalistic positions and has been criticised for not sufficiently catering to emerging “atypical” journalistic positions (Fagenes Fremtid, 2019). There is no tradition of offering courses that specifically target female journalists.