Deutsche Welle
German state owned broadcaster
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| 2024 | Yulia Navalnaya and the Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation were honored with the DW Freedom of Speech Award, highlighting their efforts in promoting free speech. |
| April 2024 | Belarus's Ministry of Internal Affairs labeled DW Belarus as an extremist group. |
| January 1 2024 | German language broadcasting ceases at Deutsche Welle. |
| 2023 | Salvadoran investigative journalist Óscar Martínez received the DW Freedom of Speech Award for his work. |
| August 2023 | The New Arab published an investigation by Arab48 suggesting Arab employees were unfairly dismissed over antisemitism charges. |
| 2022 | Ukrainian journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka were awarded the DW Freedom of Speech Award for their contributions to free speech. |
| October 2022 | Iran sanctioned DW Farsi for its coverage of the 2022 Iranian protests. |
| September 2022 | DW updated its Code of Conduct to explicitly include support for Israel's right to exist and antisemitism as grounds for dismissal. |
| September 2022 | Farah Maraqa, one of seven Arab employees fired in February, won a legal case against DW, with the court ruling her dismissal was 'legally unjustified'. |
| June 30 2022 | DW was banned in Turkey upon request from the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK). |
| March 2022 | A Belarusian court recognized the DW Belarus Telegram channel and Deutsche Welle logo as extremist materials. |
| February 7 2022 | An external investigation concluded, validating DW's suspension of five employees and recommending further action against eight others. |
| February 4 2022 | DW's Moscow office was informed it would be shut down at 9:00, with plans to relocate operations to Riga, Latvia. |
| February 3 2022 | Russia announced it would shut down DW's Moscow bureau, strip staff of accreditation, and terminate DW broadcasting in Russia in retaliation for Germany's ban of RT Deutsch. |
| 2021 | Tamil language broadcasts began. |
| 2021 | Tamil language broadcasting begins at Deutsche Welle. |
| December 5 2021 | DW suspended its partnership with Jordanian partner Roya TV due to antisemitic content on their social media. |
| December 3 2021 | DW announced the suspension of four employees and one freelancer pending an external investigation into antisemitism allegations. |
| November 2021 | Süddeutsche Zeitung published an investigation into social media comments by DW's Arabic service members, revealing potentially antisemitic posts. |
| 2020 | Belarusian language broadcasting ends. |
| January 2020 | The Guardian reported allegations of sexual harassment, racism, antisemitism, and severe bullying within Deutsche Welle (DW). |
| 2019 | Deutsche Welle begins providing its websites as an onion service via the Tor network to circumvent censorship in non-democratic states. |
| April 15 2019 | Deutsche Welle's broadcasting service in Venezuela was restored. |
| April 10 2019 | Venezuela's state telecoms regulator Conatel halted Deutsche Welle's Spanish-language channel. |
| September 2018 | Carsten von Nahmen became head of DW Akademie, after previously serving as DW's senior correspondent in Washington since February 2017 and deputy editor-in-chief and head of DW's main news department since 2014. |
| May 2018 | Christian Gramsch concluded his role as director of DW Akademie, a position he had held since November 2013. |
| February 25 2018 | Deutsche Welle published a documentary 'The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil's Campaign of Deception', revealing that oil companies had known about the climate impacts of fossil fuel burning since 1957. |
| February 2017 | Carsten von Nahmen became DW's senior correspondent in Washington. |
| 2016 | Deutsche Welle's annual budget was 301.8 million euros, indicating significant financial resources for their global media operations. |
| 2015 | Deutsche Welle established the DW Freedom of Speech Award to recognize individuals and initiatives committed to promoting free speech, typically presented at the annual Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany. |
| March 28 2015 | Closure of Deutsche Welle's relay station in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| 2014 | Ute Schaeffer became deputy head of DW Akademie, having previously served as Deutsche Welle's editor-in-chief. |
| 2013 | Deutsche Welle sells its Trincomalee, Sri Lanka relay station to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation. |
| November 2013 | Christian Gramsch began his role as director of DW Akademie, after previously serving as DW's regional director for multimedia. |
| 2012 | Closure of the transmitter facility in Sackville, New Brunswick, previously used by Deutsche Welle. |
| 2011 | Belarusian language broadcasts ceased operations. |
| 2011 | Belarusian language broadcasting is reduced or modified. |
| October 30 2011 | Closure of Deutsche Welle's relay station in Sines, Portugal. |
| July 2011 | Deutsche Welle begins implementing a major reform, including radical reduction of shortwave radio broadcasting from 260 to 55 daily hours and expansion of television broadcasting. |
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