RIAS picks 12 journalists, 15 students for March-April exchange programs in USA
The RIAS Berlin Commission has selected 12 journalists from Germany to take part in its three-week March program to the United States. Funding for two of the 12 journalists came from RIAS alumni in Germany, who donated a total of 11,000 euros in 2019. The journalists will together spend four days in Washington DC, six days in New York and six days on their at a “station week” visits with RIAS alumni from the United States across the country — from San Angelo, Texas to Chicago, Illinois and from Seattle, Washington to Bloomington, Indiana. The station weeks are concentrated in heartland states (4 in Texas, 1 in Arizona, 1 in Indiana, 1 in Nevada, 1 in Illinois) and three on the coasts in Seattle, Oregon, and New York City.
Five of the journalists on the March 10-27 program are from commercial networks or companies while seven come from public broadcasting stations. Three of the journalists come from formerly communist eastern Germany, where the legendary RIAS radio station was a popular source of news, information and rock music for millions of East Germans as the “voice of the free world” during the Cold War.
- Lena Mosel, WeltTV –
- Peter Neuhaus, WDR/DLF
- Katharina Hambacher, DLF
- Jan Fritsche, ZDF –
- Najima El Moussaoui – WDR, NTV
- Julia Gruenwald – MDR
- Martje Freese – NDR Tageschau/Phoenix
- Etienne Bell – NTV
- Michelle Martin, Reuters TV
- Romy Hiller, NDR
- Manuela Kasper-Claridge, Deutsche Welle
- Sven Christian – Spiegel TV
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The RIAS Berlin Commission has also selected 15 students of journalism and related fields for the first-ever student program in the United States — thanks in large part to an ERP grant. The 15 students will spend three days in Washington DC, three in New York City and then two weeks at universities across the country — from Montana to Texas A&M, from Hawaii to Wisconsin and from Minnesota to Oklahoma.
It is the reciprocal program to the summer exchange program for US students in Germany that was launched in 2018. The university hosts are for the most part RIAS alumni who will be showing the Germans how campus radio and TV stations work as well as campus newspapers and journalism classes.
Five of the 15 students come from formerly communist eastern Germany and 12 of the 15 are from universities in eastern Germany. The German students, many of whom have never been to the United States before, will be mostly spending their two-week campus visit at universities in heartland states. The 15 students come from 11 different universities or journalism schools: University of Leipzig (3), University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (2), Springer Akadamie (2), Halle-Wittenberg (1), University of Applied Sciences Mittweida (1), Cologne (1), Wilhelmshaven (1), Free University (1), Humboldt University (1), RTL Journalism School (1) and Deutsche Journalism School (1).
home university/j-school University to visit in USA
- Jana Glose – University Wilhelmshaven – University of Oklahoma, Norman
- Daniel Heyd – RTL Journalistenschule – University of Oklahoma, Norman
- Florian Sädler – Springer Akadamie – University of Oklahoma, Norman
- Lara Jäkel – Free University Berlin – Texas A&M, College Station, Texas
- Sarah-Maria Köpf – Halle-Wittenberg – Texas A&M, College Station, Texas
- Simon Lanzerath – University Cologne – University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
- Adrian Liehr, University Leipzig – Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
- Jessica Schäfer, Magdeburg-Stendal – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Anna Seikel, University Leipzig – Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
- Rieke Smit, Magdeburg-Stendal – New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Friedrich Steffes-Iay, Springer Akadamie – Arizona State, Phoenix, Arizona
- Tom Wagner, Humboldt University – University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Marita Wehlus, Deutsche Journalistenschule – University of Indiana, Bloomington
- Amy Woyth, Mittweida – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- Emma-Matthea Lübbert, University Leipzig – University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
