RIAS exchange programs resumes in 2022 with three-week U.S. fellowship
Eleven broadcast journalists from Germany will spend three weeks in three U.S. cities on a RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship from March 7th to 25th. The exchange programs were idled for the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic before resuming partially in October 2021. The March program for German journalists to the United States is the first of seven RIAS Berlin Commission programs in 2022 as the fellowship returns to its full schedule.
The following journalists will spend one week together in Washington DC, one week together in New York and then several will spend a third week on individual visits to American RIAS journalists at TV and radio stations from San Antonio, Texas, Tyler, Texas, Dallas, Los Angels and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Nazan Gökdemir, ZDF (Mainz, Germany)/ARTE (Strasbourg, France)
Gökdemir is a news anchor and journalist. She anchors the “Heute Journal Update” on German public network ZDF. She also anchors the news program „Arte journal“ at German-French TV network ARTE, based in Strasbourg.
Nadine Bader, ARD TV (Berlin)
Bader is a Berlin correspondent for the main public broadcasting network ARD. She reports on national politics for the main news shows „Tagesschau“ and „Tagesthemen“. Besides news coverage, live reporting and doing commentaries, she likes working on longer pieces showing how politics affect people in their everyday life. Her primary assignments include the handling of the pandemic, health, defense and agriculture policies.
Katharina Hamberger, Deutschlandfunk Radio (Berlin) Hamberger is a Berlin
correspondent for German national public radio Deutschlandradio and its three stations, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutschlandfunk Nova. She reports on the German government and the Bundestag. Her primary assignments are the German conservative parties.
Sven Christian, DER SPIEGEL (Berlin)
Christian has worked as TV news editor for SPIEGEL TV. He founded the platform spiegel.tv and switched as Head of Video to SPIEGEL ONLINE. He is now video content manager and developer for DER SPIEGEL. He lives, works and runs mostly in Berlin.
Andreas Büttner, WELT TV (Berlin) Büttner is a duty editor at all-news network WELT TV in Berlin and has worked in senior positions for the commercial network since 2017. He previously worked for the SAT-1 network. He previously worked for the SAT-1 network.
Okka Gundel, ARD-Morgenmagazin/ARD Sportschau (Cologne) Gundel is a sports
anchor and reporter for ARD Morgenmagazin in Cologne and ARD Sportschau in Hamburg. She also writes for newspapers and is an essayist for Der Spiegel. Gundel is also the author of a 2011 book about womens’ soccer “Elf Freundinnen müsst ihr sein”.
Theresa Greim, Bavarian Radio (Munich). Greim is an anchor and writer at Bavarian Radio in Munich, including its all-news BR24 program. She also works as a freelance journalist for the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Greim has also worked as an actress as well as voice over for films, audio books, computer games and documentary films.
Nadine Jantz, WeltN24 (Berlin). Jantz is a news editor for WELT-Fernsehen and works on stories for ProSieben, Sat.1 and Kabel1 networks. She is also co-host of a start-up podcast “So geht Startup”.
Christian von Rechenberg, ZDF (Mainz).
Von Rechenberg is a reporter and editor for German public broadcaster ZDF. He works for „Heute Journal“ – where he produces TV reports and does live segments transmissions for the national prime time newscast.
