Gutmann, Roth to speak at RIAS Media Prize awards ceremony
Ambassador Amy Gutmann of the United States and State Secretary Claudia Roth of the German government will be the featured speakers at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Berlin RIAS Commission moderated by Petra Gute on Thursday evening in Berlin. Both 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 RIAS Media Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding broadcast stories aired in the United States or Germany that touch on transatlantic issues. The ceremony was last held in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic but juries continued to pick winners in 2020, 2021 and 2022 — all of whom will be honored on Thursday evening at a ceremony at the Französischer Dom in central Berlin. All of the winning entries from those three years have been reposted here on the www.darkseagreen-dog-940501.hostingersite.com website.
About 180 guests are expected for the ceremony that will also pay tribute to 30 years of RIAS Berlin Commission exchange programs. Nearly 1,800 journalists have taken part in the one- to three-week long fellowship in each other’s countries — 900 Americans and 900 Germans. Many of the top broadcast journalists in both Germany and the United States have taken part in RIAS fellowships or have won the RIAS Media Prize — including Bill Whitaker, Claus Kleber, Peter Kloeppel, Tom Buhrow, Ingo Zamperoni and Jan-Phillipp Burgard.
The first 60 minutes of Thursday’s ceremony will be livestreamed on the Facebook page of the American Swing Dance Band that will be playing music for the first 30 minutes and then throughout the evening. Please see Andrej Hermlin’s Facebook page starting at 6 pm CET (1200 EST) to follow the introductory music and speeches from Amy Gutmann and Claudia Roth.
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