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Archive · 07/09/2022RIAS ERP Transatlantic student program connects Germany, USAJuly 9 , 2022 RIAS ERP Transatlantic student program connects Germany, USA American journalism students in front of the Brandenburg Gate before meetings inside the US Embassy at Pariser Platz A group of young American joRead more →
Archive · 07/03/2022American journalism students on 3-week fellowship to GermanyJuly 3 , 2022 American journalism students on 3-week fellowship to Germany The third annual RIAS Berlin ERP fellowship for American students in Germany got off to a busy start with dozens of meetings with German journali
Archive · 06/30/2022American journalism students on 3-week fellowship to GermanyJune 30 , 2022 American journalism students on 3-week fellowship to Germany A total of 14 American students of journalism and related fields are spending three weeks in Germany to learn more about the role of broadcastin
Archive · 06/23/2022American journalists offer personal insight into their “RIAS experience” It was an honor and a privledge for the RIAS Berlin Kommission to recently welcome ten amazing American jouJune 23 , 2022 American journalists offer personal insight into their “RIAS experience” It was an honor and a privledge for the RIAS Berlin Kommission to recently welcome ten amazing American journalists to our 2-week pr
Archive · 06/18/2022American journalists visit Brussels, Cologne & Berlin on fellowshipJune 18 , 2022 American journalists visit Brussels, Cologne & Berlin on fellowship Ten American broadcast journalists from Atlanta to Salt Lake City and from Oklahoma City to New York City spent two weeks on a whirlwind Archive · 06/06/2022Impressions from the RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremonyJune 6 , 2022 Impressions from the RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremony ****** ****** ****** ******
Archive · 06/06/2022Good time had by all at annual RIAS Berlin Commission alumni partyJune 6 , 2022 Good time had by all at annual RIAS Berlin Commission alumni party A good time was had by all — that was once again the motto at the annual RIAS Berlin Commission party for alumni on June 3, 2022 at the Pus
Archive · 06/06/2022RIAS Germany Standard Program starts in Brussels – June 6 -17, 2022June 6 , 2022 RIAS Germany Standard Program starts in Brussels – June 6 -17, 2022 American RIAS fellows fresh off the airplane listen to Teri Schultz talking about NATO and life as a freelancer for NPR and Deutsche Welle
Archive · 06/05/2022Claudia Roth speech at the RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremonyJune 5 , 2022 Claudia Roth speech at the RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremony Germany’s Culture Minister Claudia Roth, who is the honorary co-chairwoman of the RIAS Berlin Commission along with Ambassador Amy Gutmann of the 
Archive · 06/03/2022Gutmann, Roth pay tribute to RIAS at Media Prize ceremonyJune 3 , 2022 Gutmann, Roth pay tribute to RIAS at Media Prize ceremony USA Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann, RIAS Berlin Commission honorary co-chairwoman American Ambassador Amy Gutmann and German Culture Minister Cla
Archive · 06/03/2022Successful restart for RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremony in BerlinJune 3 , 2022 Successful restart for RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremony in Berlin After a two-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the RIAS Media Prize Awards ceremony returned to the big stage in Berlin on Thursday 
Archive · 06/02/2022Media Prize ceremony features on “Abendschau” local news broadcastThe 2022 RIAS Media Prize awards ceremony on June 2 was featured in the RBB Abendschau news program on Thursday evening. Brief excerpts of keynote speeches from Ambassador Amy Gutmann of the United States and State SecreArchive · 06/01/2022Faltin wins RIAS TV prize for story on GIs in post-war West GermanySigrid Faltin won the RIAS Media Prize Best TV award in 2022 for her report on the history of the lives of African American soldiers stationed in West Germany in the early decades after World War II who were living along
Archive · 06/01/2022Gutmann, Roth to speak at RIAS Media Prize awards ceremonyAmbassador Amy Gutmann of the United States and State Secretary Claudia Roth of the German government will be the featured speakers at the 30th anniversary celebration of the Berlin RIAS Commission moderated by Petra Gut
Archive · 05/31/2022Deutschlandfunk story on NY in pandemic times wins Radio PrizeThomas Reintjes and Matthias Röckl won the RIAS Media Prize for best radio story award in 2022 for their story on New York City’s struggles to cope with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic called: “ Fear of Losing New Yo
Archive · 05/31/2022Moving Balzer story on NY emerging from pandemic wins Fellow PrizeVladimir Balzer, a radio journalist at Deutschlandradio and RIAS alumni, won the RIAS Media Prize for best fellow award in 2022 for his story on New York City’s emergence from the difficult times in the Covid-19 pandemicArchive · 05/30/2022The Daily from NYT wins RIAS Prize for series on far right in GermanyKatrin Bennhold, Clare Toeniskoetter and a team of journalists at The Daily, a podcast at The New York Times, won the RIAS Media Prize for best digital award in 2022 for their five-part series “Day X” on far-right infiltArchive · 05/29/2022Deutsche Welle wins RIAS Digital Prize for hard look at US sportsDeutsche Welle’s Janek Speight won the 2021 RIAS Media Prize award for best digital story for his thought-provoking comparison of US professional leagues vs European professional soccer, and puts forward an interesting aArchive · 05/27/2022Burgard wins inaugural RIAS Media “Grand Prize” in 2022Jan Phillip Burgard, the editor-in-chief of WeltTV and a prolific German author of books about the United States, won the 2022 “Grand Prize” of the RIAS Berlin Commission for his moving story of a German family whose sonArchive · 05/23/2022RIAS Media Prize – Michael Groth from DeutschlandradioIn 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 20Archive · 05/22/2022RIAS Media Prize “Next Generation Prize” in 2021The RIAS Media Prize Jury created a special new category for the 2021 Media Prize Competition — The “Next Generation Prize”. It was awarded to Anna Ellmann and Maximilian Osenstätter of Bayerischer Rundfunk for their “ NArchive · 05/21/2022RIAS Media Prize best radio story 2020 – Wiebke KeunekeWiebke 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 accompArchive · 05/20/2022RIAS Media Prize Winners — Best Digital Video 2020 to NDR in GermanyDavid Diwiak and Han Park of youth-oriented NDR online-channel STRG_F won a RIAS Media Prize award in 2020 for the best Digital Video for their story that explored the growing market for and appeal of meat replacements, Archive · 05/19/2022RIAS Media Prize Winners 2020-2022 — links to honored storiesThe 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. Nevertheless, an independ