German fellows complete 3 week tour of United States
Some of the best and the brightest German broadcast journalists finished a three-week exchange program of the United States. The 12 TV and radio journalists took part in RIAS Berlin Commission tour that featured a wee in Washington DC and New York City talking with US journalists, newsmakers, political scientists, researchers and lobbyists. Among the highlights were a meeting with Bill Whitaker and Marc Lieberman of CBS “60 Minutes” and with CNN’s Richard Quest.
The 12 German reporters from networks across the country also spent one week each on their own working at local network stations across the United States with US RIAS alumni — looking over their shoulder, learning more about the US media landscape across the prairie and beyond.
Ralph Szepanski of ZDF TV made the most of his station week visiting Tom Hawley of KSNV News 3 in Las Vegas and put together this 2-minute story for ZDF back home in Germany.
Anja Goerz of Radio Bremen also kept busy during her station week in Seattle, hosted by Amina Al-Sadi of KUOW radio. She filed several radio reports back home as well as several highly readable blogs. She stayed in New York after the program and wrote about a terror attack in Manhattan as well. Vanessa Lünenschloß of BR had the chance to do reporting for her network back home in Bavaria from South Carolina on German corporate activities there.
Laura Koppenhoefer of SWR radio did a report from Florida for her station back home in Germany on the politcal aftereffects of the hurricane season in Florida. Benedikt Wenck of Radio DPA tracked down a senior official of Audible Germany for an interview in New Jersey that lead to this widely used story.
Fall 2017 participants:
- Ralph Szepanski, ZDF
- Torsten Beermann, WDR TV,
- Nural Akbayir, WDR Radio,
- Anorte Linsmayer, MDR TV
- Vanessa Luenenschloss, BR
- Neus Perez Garcia, Deutsche Welle
- Charlotte Potts, ZDF, DW
- Anja Goerz, Radio Bremen
- Christian Semm, ZDF
- Benedikt Wenck, Radio DPA
- Laura Koppenhoefer, SWR Radio
- Anja Kwijas, Radio Bremen
