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Archive · 11/05/2020RIAS Berlin alumni invited to submit audio pieces for Goethe Institut “Big Ponder” seriesRIAS Berlin alumni invited to submit audio pieces for Goethe Institut “Big Ponder” series The RIAS Berlin Commission would like to draw your attention to a call for story/podcast proposals from Goethe Institut for a new Read more →
Archive · 10/19/2020Next RIAS On-line talks with White House Correspondent, retired Republican CongressmanNext RIAS On-line talks with White House Correspondent, retired Republican Congressman With just two weeks left before the US elections, the RIAS Berlin Commission will be holding four on-line talks over the next nine da
Archive · 10/14/2020Weekly RIAS talks focus on November U.S. electionsIn the run-up to the U.S. elections on November 3, RIAS Berlin Commission has been and will continue holding a series of talks each week with experts and RIAS alumni from many of the key battleground states such as Flori
Archive · 09/28/2020Legendary RIAS Berlin station week host TC Colones passes awayTom Colones, a RIAS Berlin Commission alumni from 1997 who hosted more than a dozen of German journalists at his WSPA Channel 7 station in South Carolina, has died after working Tom “TC” Colones (right) in 2017 in South 
Archive · 09/08/2020RIAS Berlin Zoom Talk with Berlin swing band that’s fighting coronavirus bluesAndrej Hermlin and his Swingin Hermlins hosted the RIAS Berlin alumni chapter and the weekly RIAS Zoom Talk during his livestream living room concert on September 6. Following the band’s nightly 35-minute livestream perf
Archive · 09/01/2020Berlin Alumni Chapter meets for Zoom Talk & mini reunion in BerlinBerlin alumni chapter of RIAS Berlin Commission meets for the second time this summer at outdoor restaurant in heart of Berlin. Fifteen members of the Berlin alumni chapter of the RIAS Berlin Commission met for an inform
Archive · 08/14/2020Klinsmann meets RIAS alumni, candidates in virtual Zoom TalkFormer USA and Germany soccer coach Jürgen Klinsmann talked to a group of 35 RIAS alumni and candidates for future programs in a lively RIAS Zoom conversation on Thursday, August 13. It was an open and wide-ranging discu
Archive · 08/11/2020Rough, Klinsmann, Fuhst & Portland journalists to hold RIAS Zoom TalksThe RIAS Zoom talks will continue this week and through August. There are two talks on tap this week with Peter Rough on Wednesday, August 12 and Jürgen Klinsmann (pictured below with RIAS group in 2018) on Thursday, Aug
Archive · 08/07/2020McGinley of WKMG-TV in Orlando running for RTNDA Chair-ElectAllison McGinley , News Director at WKMG-TV in Orlando, Florida, is running for the position of Chair-Elect of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA board), which calls itself the world’s largest professio
Archive · 08/05/2020RIAS alumni Wagner running for RTDNA Chair-ElectDavid Wagner RIAS Berlin Commission alumni David Wagner is one of two candidates to become the Chair-Elect of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA board), which calls itself the world’s largest profession
Archive · 07/24/2020RIAS zoom talks with Isabelle Körner from NTV and former RIAS DJ Rik De LisleIsabelle Körner Isabelle Körner of NTV and former RIAS DJ Rik De Lisle held lively RIAS Zoom talks in the last two weeks. Körner spoke about the way the coronavirus has changed her work on an all-news German TV station i
Archive · 07/09/2020RIAS talks with U.S. general, German politician and alumni from Texas, Arizona, FloridaThe weekly RIAS Zoom talks continued into July with three riveting conversations connecting RIAS alumni and friends of RIAS with virtual transatlantic meetings. Retired U.S. Army Lt. General Ben Hodges talked about the s
Archive · 07/02/2020RIAS Berlin Alumni Chapter meets after long coronavirus hiberationAbout nine members of the #RIASBerlin alumni chapter in Berlin met — cautiously and with appropriate social distancing — for the first time in many months on Wednesday, July 1 at a restaurant in the center of Berlin. Wit
Archive · 06/22/2020RIAS Zoom Talks aheadThere will be three more RIAS Zoom talks over the next three weeks. We hope you can take part in these. Please contact info@Archive · 06/18/2020Legendary RIAS DJ ‘Lord Knud’ dies at 76Lord Knud, who was one of the best-known DJs at RIAS in both West Berlin and Communist East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, died recently at his house in Berlin at the age of 76, according to reports on RBB televisio
Archive · 06/16/2020Racism in USA and Germany focus of recent RIAS zoom talksYami Virgin, Fox San Antonio RIAS alumni Yami Virgin from San Antonio, Texas and Peter Mücke from ARD radio in New York talked about life in the United States during the Covid-19 crisis in two separate RIAS zoom talks, t
Archive · 06/04/2020RIAS zoom talks with alumni focus on tensions in USA, Germany’s Covid-19 responseNick Scheffler More than 60 RIAS Berlin Commission alumni members and candidates for future programs took part in three RIAS Zoom Talk sessions this week with distinguished alumni and leading journalists in Germany and t
Archive · 06/02/2020RIAS alumni from Minneapolis, POLITICO’s Karnitschnig at this week’s RIAS Zoom TalksTwo RIAS Berlin Commission alumni from Minnesota will take part in RIAS special zoom talks added to this week’s schedule to talk about the violent protests that have erupted in Minneapolis in the last week and answer que
Archive · 05/27/2020WUSA9 anchor Larry Miller talks about changes in USA with Covid-19Larry Miller, an anchor at WUSA9 TV in Washington DC and a RIAS alumni, said that the coronavirus pandemic has created a lot of new challenges in his job and that there has been a lot of stress involved in covering the n
Archive · 05/26/2020German TV medical correspondent sheds light on country’s Covid-19 track recordDr. Christoph Specht, Germany’s TV medical correspondent Germany managed to come through the first phase of the coronavirus crisis in relatively good shape thanks to a combination of good luck and good preparation, GermaArchive · 05/25/2020RIAS Zoom Talks lined-up for this and next weekRIAS Zoom Talks will resume on May 26th with a focus on how Germany has handled the coronavirus crisis compared to other countries hit harder. German medical correspondent Christoph Specht from Cologne will be talking ab
Archive · 05/20/2020Gargiulo says New York TV viewers growing weary of gloomy newsMichael Gargiulo WNBC co-anchor Michael Gargiulo said in a “RIAS Zoom Talk” on Wednesday that he sensed TV viewers in New York were growing weary of a steady drumbeat of depressing half-hour news bulletins on the latest 
Archive · 05/19/2020Beyer says more connecting Germany and US than dividing it, in RIAS Zoom TalkThe German government’s transatlantic coordinator, Peter Beyer, said in a meeting with German and US journalists that there is far more that connects the two countries than divides them, and expressed his hope that thereArchive · 05/18/2020RIAS Zoom Talk with Michael Gargiulo rescheduled to May 20, 2020May 18, 2020 PLEASE TAKE NOTE : The RIAS Zoom Meeting with WNBC New York Today Show co-anchor Michael Gargiulo has been moved from Thursday to Wednesday May 20 at 1600 Berlin time (1000 EST) .