RIAS Media Prize – Michael Groth from Deutschlandradio

In 2021, the RIAS Media Prize Jury honored Michael Groth for his series of outstanding in-depth features on music in the United States for more than 15 years at Deutschlandradio/Deutschlandfunkkultur. His entry in the 2021 competition “Songs of Love and Protest – the return of political songs in the USA” was a splendid long-form story that epitomized Groth’s work spanning more than a decade to inform Germans about trends in American music. Here is his report “Songs of Love and Protest – Wiederkehr des politischen Liedes in den USA“ that aired on October 30: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-wiederkehr-des-politischen-liedes-in-den-usa-songs-of.3780.de.html?dram:article_id=486565

The RIAS Media Prize ceremony will be held for the first time since in 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the annual awards ceremony in 2020 and 2021. An independent jury of journalists continued to pick winners in the television, radio and digital categories for German-American exchange program.