This afternoon, Monday, November 25, 2024, the team of the Metro Center, with the participation of representatives of several media outlets, met with Manaf Mubarak, representative of Deutsche Welle in Iraq.

The purpose of the meeting was to introduce a project for the media agencies of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region to benefit from the news of the world-famous agency free of charge.

Shwan Dara, legal advisor of Metro Center, expressed his pleasure for their visit and evaluated the importance of their project that legally the medias can use the agency as a source of news without any legal problems.

In the meeting, Manaf Mubarak thanked Metro Center, explaining how journalists can benefit from the news and videos of their agency free of charge.

Then the participants expressed some comments and questions about the tools to benefit from the project.

Metro Center and DW Deutsche Welle signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2016, with the aim of expanding each other's activities.

DW is an abbreviation of two German words (Deutsche Welle) which means (German wave). It began operations in 1952 with DW Radio. Their radio broadcasts were in English and German, and the project was then franked into an independent television channel. They also have a website in more than 30 different languages, as well as an academy for training journalists.

DW is a semi-governmental institution, funded by the German government, without government interference in its policy. DW has its own academy in addition to training, they work in partnership with German universities and award master's degrees to their students.

Finally, the representatives of the German Agency thanked Metro Center for the opportunity they gave them.