Germany-based journalists heading to USA for March fellowship

Fourteen broadcast journalists based in Germany are heading to the United States for a three-week RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship that starts on March 3. The journalists will spend a week visiting congressmen from both the Republican and Democratic parties, media outlets such as NPR and Deutsche Welle, think tanks such as Pew Research Center, the Women’s Media Center, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the CATO Institute and the Freedom House. They will also visit the Capitol building and the Pentagon.

Their week in New York City will include meetings with journalists on Wall Street, at the NBC headquarters, the New York Times, Bloomberg and CBS News. They will also meet the CEO of the AJC David Harris and the director of programs at the Tenement Museum, Kathryn Lloyd. The group will also meet Christoph Heusgen, Germany’s permanent representative to the United Nations.

The fellows will then spend the third week visiting with American broadcast journalists at their stations across the country, from Bloomington, Indiana, to Bend, Oregon, from San Antonio, Texas, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati, Tulsa are also station week destinations for some of the German journalists. Others will spend a week in Tyler, Texas and Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Here is a list of the fellows taking part in the March program to the United States:

1. Christian Avital, ARD radio and RTL television, Cologne
2. Jan-Peter Bartels, HR TV/online, Frankfurt
3. Benjamin Eyssel, RBB radio, Berlin
4. Renate Friedrich, NTV Cologne5
5. Cornelia Gerhard, Phoenix TV, Bonn
6. Lutz-Philipp Harbaum, RTL television, Cologne
7. Ann-Kathrin Horn, Deutschlandfunk Nova radio, Cologne
8. Sarah Kelly, Deutsche Welle TV, Berlin
9. Marcel Machill, University of Leipzig
10. Maria Luz Moraleda, Deutsche Welle TV, multimedia, Berlin
11. Anna Muellerleile, Hamburg Zwei radio, Hamburg
12. Maria Regis, MDR TV/online, Leipzig
13. Christoph Tanneberger, NDR/ARD TV/Social Media, Hamburg
14. Andreas Teska, WDR TV/Radio, Cologne