RIAS Fall 2017 US Fellows Hit Ground Running in Brussels
Fourteen U.S.-based journalists taking part in the fall 2017 RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship hit the ground running in Brussels on Monday, September 18 at the start of a busy two-week program in Belgium and Germany in the run-up to the German election on September 24. Kicking off the tour in the EU capital, the fellows got to learn more about the EU’s inner workings from expert speakers and journalists working in Deutsche Welle’s busy Brussels bureau.
DW bureau chief Max Hofmann, who was a RIAS fellow in the United States in 2008, treated the group to a riveting discussion about the growing importance of the EU capital city and how its view of the United States has changed and evolved over the last year. The US fellows will also spend time in Berlin and Hamburg over the next fortnight after a stop at NATO headquarters on Tuesday. Visits to leading German broadcasting outlets, think tanks, political scientists, party headquarters on election night, a Bundesliga soccer match, an American craft beer brewery in Berlin, ethnic communities, the Elbphilharmic in Hamburg, as well as memorials and historical sites are all on the busy schedule.
Here is a list of the fall 2017 participants:
- Stephanie Carr, KSHB-41 News Producer, Kansas City, MO
- Iris Carreras CBS News Associate Producer, New York, NY
- Viviana Hurtado, WTOL/WUPW Anchor, Toledo, OH
- Allegra Johnson, Producer, Reporter, Pittsburgh, PA
- Elizabeth Johnson, CNN Senior Editor, Atlanta
- Lane Luckie, KLTV News Anchor, Reporter, Tyler, TX
- Heather Maxwell, Voice of America International Broadcaster, Washington DC
- Scott Saloway, MSNBC, Headline Writer, New York, NY
- Alex Stambaugh CNN International Content Producer, Hong Kong
- Simon Thompson, KRWG Reporter, Producer, Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Clare Toeniskoetter, Marketplace Producer, New York, NY
- Benjamin Warwick, KCNC-TV Assignment Editor, Denver, CO
- Stephanie Wolf, Colorado Public Radio, Pruducer, Reporter, Colorado
- Edgar Zuniga, Telemundo Producer, New York, NY
