Next RIAS On-line talks with White House Correspondent, retired Republican Congressman
Next RIAS On-line talks with White House Correspondent, retired Republican Congressman
With just two weeks left before the US elections, the RIAS Berlin Commission will be holding four on-line talks over the next nine days with a former Republican Congressman (
Charlie Dent
, from Pennsylvania) and three journalists – a Reuters correspondent who has covered the White House since 2008, a German TV news anchorwoman who will be covering the election for Germany’s top commercial network, and a public radio news editor from Michigan. Please join us. Write info@darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com for log-in details.
The guest speakers include:
Jeff Mason is a Reuters correspondent who has been covering the White House since 2009. He was also the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2017. He recently gave this talk about covering the White House in the final weeks of the campaign: Previously he worked for Reuters in Frankfurt and Brussels from 2000 to 2008. He has met with several RIAS groups of German journalists in Washington DC over the years. He also teaches political journalism at Georgetown University. His talk will be at 4 p.m. Berlin time (10 a.m. EST) on Tuesday, October 20.
Gesa Eber
l, an anchorwoman at the RTL/NTV network in Cologne, will be talking about her network’s US election coverage in Germany and the impact of the elections on Germany and Europe. Eberl was a US correspondent for RTL/NTV and will be the co-anchor of RTL’s U.S. election coverage on November 3-4. Her talk will be at 6 p.m. Berlin time (12 noon EST) on Wednesday, October 21.
Republican Charlie Dent
was a seven-term Congressman from Pennsylvania from the 15th District from 2005 to 2008. Since leaving Congress, Dent has worked as a policy adviser and lobbyist. He is also a regular guest on CNN. Proud of his German roots, Dent was a founding member of the Congressional German-American Caucus in 2014. His talk will be at 6 p.m. Berlin time (12 noon EST) on Monday, October 26.
of Michigan Radio will be talking about the situation in Michigan – an important Midwestern state that flipped from the Democrats’ to the Republicans’ electoral college column in 2016 and has been a focus of attention. Duffy, a RIAS alumni and former chair of the RTDNA, has been the news director of Michigan Radio since 2007 and will be talking about the issues in Michigan. His talk will be at 6 p.m. Berlin time (12 noon EST) on Wednesday, October 28.
