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Dr Marcus Nicolini is the director of the Journalism Programme at the Journalism Academy of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS) in Berlin and Sankt Augustin near Bonn. In addition, he is the deputy chairman of the works council of the KAS. The KAS is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation sees the training of journalists as important in strengthening democracy and wants to contribute to journalists’ pluralism of opinion. Until 2006, Marcus Nicolini was dean of studies of the journalism programme at the Institut zur Förderung publizistischen Nachwuchses (ifp) in Munich, the school of journalism of the Catholic Church in Germany. He studied German, Catholic theology and politics in Vechta (Lower Saxony), where he received his doctorate in German studies. Marcus Nicolini was born in 1966, is married and lives in Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia).