RIAS planning seven exchange programs in 2022 — 4 to USA, 3 to Germany

The RIAS Building in Berlin as seen in February 2022. It’s now the home of Deutschlandradio but also the home of the #RIASBerlin Commission since 1992.

More than 1,900 journalists from the United States and Germany have taken part in the one- to three-week fellowships since the exchange program for broadcast journalists in the two countries was created.

The programs began restarting cautiously in the fall of 2021 after a two-year hibernation due to Covid-19 — with three programs in Germany and the United States that more than 50 journalists took part in.

The RIAS Berlin Commission fellowships will be back in full swing in 2022 with a total of seven fellowship exchange programs for about 120 journalists. There will be four exchange fellowships for German broadcast journalists to the USA: in March for 13 professional journalists, in late March/early April for 15 journalism students, in early October for 15 professional journalists and late October just before the mid-term elections for about 32 alumni and friends of RIAS.

There will also be three fellowships to Germany for American journalists: in June for 15 professional American journalists, in late June/early July for 15 American journalism students and in September for 15 professional American journalists. In 2023 RIAS Berlin Commission is planning four fellowships to Germany for Americans and three to the USA for German journalists.

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