Media Prize ceremony features on “Abendschau” local news broadcast

The 2022 RIAS Media Prize awards ceremony on June 2 was featured in the RBB Abendschau news program on Thursday evening. Brief excerpts of keynote speeches from Ambassador Amy Gutmann of the United States and State Secretary Claudia Roth of the German government were included in the 35-second news segment of Berlin’s leading news show on Thursday evening that was aired before the ceremony even finished.

You can see the news clip on this website. The story on the RIAS awards ceremony moderated by Petra Gute begins at the 29-second mark and runs to the 1:05-minute mark., https://www.rbb-online.de/abendschau/videos/20220602_1930/nachrichten_zwei.html

RIAS Berlin Commission celebrated its 30-year-anniversary with the first media prize awards ceremony since 2019 on Thursday. Both Gutmann and Roth are honorary chairwomen of the RIAS Berlin Commission, a German-American exchange program for broadcast journalists created 30 years ago with the goal of keeping alive the spirit of the RIAS Radio and TV broadcaster after they went off the air following the end of the Cold War.

The Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel published a story last week about the 30th anniversary of the RIAS Berlin Commission as well — noting that RIAS Berlin Commission was one of several institutions created in Berlin in the early 1990s after the end of the Cold War amid hopes in the once-divided German capital of cementing an American presence even after some 10,000 Allied troops who defended West Berlin’s freedom during the Cold War departed in 1992.

Here is a link to the story in Der Tagesspiegel: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/30-jaehriges-bestehen-der-rias-medienpreisverleihung-journalisten-in-berlin-fuer-beitrag-zur-deutsch-amerikanischen-verstaendigung-geehrt/28377662.html