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Archive · 12/07/2018Observations from U.S. journalists on program studying migration, border security in EuropeLee Anderson , KTVZ, Bend, OR Thank you RIAS Berlin Kommission for a wonderful eye opening week in Germany and Croatia. I suppose Dr. Hildegard Boucsein put it best during our last “meeting” in the hotel bar in Zagreb, “Read more →
Archive · 12/04/2018RIAS Berlin Commission fellows from USA study border security, migration in EuropeA group of eight American journalists and law enforcement experts recently completed a busy seven-day RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship to learn more about border security and migration in Germany and the European Union.
Archive · 12/01/2018RIAS BERLIN COMMISSION mourns death of co-founder BushGeorge H.W. Bush, who founded the RIAS BERLIN COMMISSION together with Helmut Kohl Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who founded the RIAS BERLIN COMMISSION together with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl 26 yeArchive · 11/18/2018, NDR Info radio; 54 minutesNovember 18, 2018, NDR Info radio; 54 minutes https://www.ndr.de/info/sendungen/das_feature/Fake-Fabriken,sendung828226.html Donald Trump has been shrugging off criticism as “fake news“ ever since his first press confere
Archive · 11/13/2018Call for Entries for RIAS Media PrizeThe deadline is nearing for the RIAS Berlin Commission Media Prize awards for 2018. The RIAS Berlin Commission annually presents awards for excellence in reporting on German-American or transatlantic issues. The awards a
Archive · 10/31/2018Brief comments from RIAS Berlin Commission fellows from Germany in the United States in October 2018Martin Richter, senior correspondent, Phoenix TV, Bonn Das RIAS Programm im Herbst 2018 in den USA war f ür mich eine unglaubliche Erfahrung und Bereicherung meines persönlichen und journalistischen Lebens. Die vielen Ge
Archive · 09/20/201813 American journalists tour Germany, Brussels on RIAS exchange programThirteen American journalists from 10 different states are visiting four European cities for briefings, interviews and talks with movers and shakers in the fields of politics, media, sports and the arts during a two-week
Archive · 08/27/2018RIAS Berlin Commission alumni reunion and panel discussion at RTDNA’s EIJ conferenceAll RIAS Berlin Commission alumni and previous media prize award winners are invited to attend the annual USA reunion at the RTDNA and SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism convention on Sept. 28 in Baltimore. The get-together Archive · 08/27/2018, RTL (Spiegel TV).August 27, 2018, RTL (Spiegel TV). https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/neonazi-zelle-atomwaffen-division-das-hass-netzwerk-a-1225341.html This chilling story explores how the violent American Nazi terror group AtomwafArchive · 08/15/2018RIAS Berlin Commission sets exchange program dates for 2019The RIAS Berlin Commission announced the following dates for exchange programs in 2019: Germany Spring Program 2019: June 2–14, 2019 Application Deadline: February 1, 2019 Germany Fall Program 2019: September 15–27, 2019
Archive · 07/21/2018Fifteen American college students and recent graduates from 14 universities and 11 states across the United States recently completed a three-week summer exchange program in GermanFifteen American college students and recent graduates from 14 universities and 11 states across the United States recently completed a three-week summer exchange program in Germany for broadcast journalists organised byArchive · 07/16/2018, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 20:08 minutesJuly 16, 2018, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 20:08 minutes https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/neu-in-den-usa-coliving-die-all-inclusive-wg-der-traeume.979.de.html?dram:article_id=422034 This entertaining story, produced duri
Archive · 07/06/2018New RIAS summer exchange program for US college students up and runningFifteen U.S. college students and recent graduates heading into broadcast journalism spent the first week of their three-week summer exchange program on a whirlwind tour of media, political and cultural stops this past w
Archive · 06/29/2018Alumni chapter news — meeting in Cologne, more meetings planned for Berlin A dozen RIAS Berlin Commission alumni members met in Cologne recently for yet another chapter meeting in Alumni chapter news — meeting in Cologne, more meetings planned for Berlin A dozen RIAS Berlin Commission alumni members met in Cologne recently for yet another chapter meeting in the city where the first alumni chapter 
Archive · 06/27/2018Americans spent two weeks in 5 European cities learning about journalist, politics, lifeTake 14 American broadcast journalists from across the country and send them to five European cities and three different countries on a 12-day trip with a packed schedule filled with talks with journalists, politicians a
Archive · 06/05/201814 U.S. fellows selected for RTDNF/RIAS German-American exchangeRTDNF and the RIAS Berlin Commission have selected 14 producers, reporters, editors and academics from across the country to become Fellows in Europe in two two-week long exchange programs in June to study the political 
Archive · 05/31/2018Big RIAS alumni reunion in Berlin kicks off new RIAS get-together effortsMore than 60 RIAS Berlin Commission alumni took part in a panel discussion and alumni reunion recently at the historic RIAS Funkhaus building in Berlin. The 2018 RIAS media prize winners Jan Phillip Burgard, Lara Wiedeki
Archive · 05/18/2018Whitaker urges journalists to keep giving voice to voiceless, hope to hopeless in their workAward Ceremony RIAS Berlin Kommission 17.5.2018 Celebrated CBS news correspondent Bill Whitaker issued a stirring appeal to journalists in the United States, Germany and around the world to keep working tirelessly to cov
Archive · 05/16/2018RIAS alumni Zamperoni’s new book attempts to explain Trump’s popularity for GermansOne of Germany’s leading evening news anchors Ingo Zamperoni, a RIAS alumni and former ARD TV correspondent in Washington DC, just published a riveting new book in Germany called “ Anderland “ that makes a splendid effor
Archive · 05/14/2018Annual reception and awards ceremony — all alumni invited to attend!Help us celebrate what has been a fantastic year for the RIAS Berlin Commission! You’re all invited to two big alumni reunion events this week in Berlin – on May 17 and May 18. The 2018 RIAS media prize awards ceremony w
Archive · 04/20/2018New RIAS alumni chapter formed in Mainz-Frankfurt, Cologne alumni meetA new RIAS Berlin Commission alumni chapter was inaugurated in Mainz-Frankfurt on April 19 — adding to the list of alumni chapters already up and running in Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Washington DC and New York City. The 
Archive · 04/08/2018German journalists learn more about inside workings of U.S. TV, radio stationsRIAS Berlin Commission journalists made the most of their three-week fellowships in the United States. The 14 German journalists spent a week in Washington DC, a week in New York and then spread out across the country to
Archive · 03/27/2018Alumni chapter events in March in Hamburg, Berlin, Washington DC and New YorkMarch was a busy month for RIAS Berlin Commission alumni chapters in Germany and the United States. RIAS Berlin Commission board member Melissa Eddy talks about her work for the Commission and at the New York Times in Ge
Archive · 03/13/2018New Jersey Gov Phil Murphy talks US politics to RIAS groupNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy gave a group of 14 German radio and TV journalists an interesting talk on the political landscape in his state and in the United States at the moment. Murphy, who was the former RIAS Berli