RIAS Media Prize best radio story 2020 – Wiebke Keuneke

Wiebke Keuneke won the RIAS Media Prize for best radio in 2020 for her story “Jenseits des American Dream – deutsche Sozialarbeiter unterwegs in den USA“ that was aired on the SWR network. In this radio report she accompanied 12 Berlin social workers on their journey to Chicago and Detroit. She recorded the critical, often skeptical and sometimes shocked impressions that the encounters with the reality of American social work led to.

The RIAS Media Prize ceremony will be held in Berlin in early June 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. A total of 17 winners from all three years 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be honored at the ceremony.