RIAS Berlin Commission alumni reunion and panel discussion at RTDNA’s EIJ conference
All RIAS Berlin Commission alumni and previous media prize award winners are invited to attend the annual USA reunion at the RTDNA and SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism convention on Sept. 28 in Baltimore. The get-together will take place at the EIJ’s conference
at the Hilton Baltimore from 2 pm to 3:30 pm on Friday afternoon before the Paul White Award presentation/reception honouring Bill Whitaker that starts at 5:30 pm.
There will also be a RIAS brunch/panel discussion on Saturday morning, Sept. 29 from 11 am to 12:30 pm looking at the question of “The Decline of International News Reporting in the U.S. – Reasons and Remedies” featuring guest panelists Ralph Begleiter, Stacey Samuel, Jeff Mason and Teri Schulz. Begleiter, a former CNN correspondent, teaches at the University of Delaware; Samuel is a supervising editor at NPR; Mason is a Reuters correspondent covering the White House and had several overseas posting; Schulz works for Deutsche Welle and NPR in Brussels. The panel will be introduced by WNBC New York morning anchor Michael Gargiulo.
Some financial support is available for RIAS alumni members traveling to Baltimore. Please contact kirschbaum@darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com or schillhahn@darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com for more details on the get-togethers or the travel cost support.
The aim of the alumni meetings is to keep the spirit of the Radio in America Sector (RIAS) alive and to foster networking and exchange opportunities among the 1,600 journalists in Germany and the United States who have taken part in the RIAS programs since it was launched in 1992. The RIAS alumni also play an important role in identifying and recruiting candidates for future exchange programs. Alumni chapters that meet periodically and organise local events have been set up in the last year in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Mainz/Frankfurt, New York, Washington and Los Angeles.
RIAS alumni are also invited to apply for modest travel support now available to all alumni to return to Germany or the United States to work on stories that will be used by their broadcasters.
