The award ceremony took place on May 07 at Berlin’s iconic Red City Hall.
300 guests, among them many RIAS alumni and other journalists, as well as representatives from politics and civil society followed the invitation and honored the award recipients from America and Germany for their outstanding contributions to transatlantic journalism.
We also marked the occasion of RIAS – Radio in the American Sector – going on air 80 years ago from Berlin Schöneberg. Claus Kleber, a longtime ZDF anchor and former editor-in-chief of RIAS, moderated a discussion about the importance of independent international media. His guests were David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio; Ines Pohl, bureau chief for Deutsche Welle in Washington; and David Ensor, former director of Voice of America.
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