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Archive · 05/10/2020Virtual meetings with RIAS alumni groups in Germany, USADozens of RIAS Berlin Commission fellows from the United States and Germany took part in a series of lively virtual reunions in recent days. Many of the alumni shared stories about the situations at their networks, citie
Archive · 05/02/2020RIAS alumni group meets online for reunion after Fall 2018 programRIAS fall 2018 alumni group holds a virtual reunion from locations across the USA: from top left: Latest Clark, Erik Kirschbaum, Gitzel Puente, Bonnie North, Jessica Prater, Carol McKinley, Judith Synderman, Andrew LapinArchive · 04/24/2020RIAS Media Prize winners for Digital Video talk about their award-winning reportHere is a short interview with Han Park . Together with his colleague David Diwiak , they are the winners of the RIAS Digital Award 2020 for their report entitled “Veggie vs. Labor?” Question: Where did you get the idea Archive · 04/17/2020RIAS student program alumni Ailport wins Congress-Bundestag FellowshipRIAS alumni Michelle Ailport of Arizona State University took part in the RIAS summer exchange program in 2019. After getting her first exposure to Germany on that three-week fellowship, Ailport applied for the “Congress
Archive · 04/06/2020RIAS Media Prize winners talk about their award-winning reportsAs part of a series looking more closely at the 2020 RIAS Berlin Commission Media Prize winners, here is an interview with Monica Quintero of KPEJ KMID TV in Odessa/Midlands, Texas and David Wagner of KLST/KSAN in San AnArchive · 03/20/2020RIAS Media Prize event cancelled due to coronavirusThe RIAS Berlin Commission regrets to announce that its Media Prize gala event will not take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis. The annual event celebrating outstanding broadcast journalism covering transatlant
Archive · 03/11/2020RIAS Berlin Commission Media Prize Award Winners ChosenThe RIAS Berlin Commission’s 2020 Media Prize award winners were selected by an eight-member panel of international journalists for radio and television stories that recognize the best contributions of transatlantic broaArchive · 03/10/2020March RIAS Berlin Commission programs to the USA postponedRIAS Berlin Commission deeply regrets to announce that its programs scheduled for March (standard journalist program and ERP student program) will be postponed until either the fall of 2020 or later due to the current di
Archive · 02/12/2020Peter Beyer, German government’s transatlantic coordinator, talks to RIAS alumni groupRIAS Berlin Commission board member Peter Beyer gave a riveting two-hour talk to a group of 28 RIAS Berlin alumni members. Beyer, a member of parliament for the conservative Christian Democrats, is also the German govern
Archive · 01/14/2020RIAS picks 12 journalists, 15 students for March-April exchange programs in USARIAS fellows from Germany in Washington DC in March 2019 The RIAS Berlin Commission has selected 12 journalists from Germany to take part in its three-week March program to the United States. Funding for two of the 12 jo
Archive · 01/06/2020Win a trip to Berlin for the May 7, 2020 RIAS Media Prize Awards!U.S. and Germany-based journalists are invited to enter their best stories that touch on transatlantic or global themes for the annual RIAS Media Prize Awards. The best TV, radio and digital stories aired or published inArchive · 12/24/2019RIAS concludes successful 2019 with 6 programs, 92 participants, & rising donationsTen American journalists visited Berlin, Erfurt, Cologne and Brussels on the September 2019 program to Europe. It was a successful year in 2019 for the RIAS Berlin Commission with 92 participants taking part in six transArchive · 12/13/2019RIAS fellows air series of stories from their fellowship in Brussels, Cologne, Erfurt and BerlinMonica Quintero from Fox KPEJ in Odessa, Texas and David Wagner from KLSTV TV in San Angelo, Texas worked together on their RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship in September for a 30-minute documentary on their experience a
Archive · 12/11/2019RIAS alumni chapters gather in New York City, Cologne and BerlinScores of RIAS Berlin alumni took party in good-spirited parties and get-togethers in New York City, Cologne and Berlin in recent weeks. The momentum for alumni activities has really picked up in 2019 with more and more 
Archive · 12/10/2019RIAS Berlin says farewell to outgoing board members, welcomes new CommissionersThe RIAS Berlin Commission bid farewell to three distinguished members of its 10-person board at its 37th Commission meeting in Berlin on December 9. Chairperson Christina M. Higgins (pictured on the right) and co-chair 
Archive · 12/04/2019Dear RIAS Berlin Commission alumni and friends of RIAS,We’ve a really busy year with 92 participants on six transatlantic exchange programs — including 30 Americans on our first big group alumni program in Berlin in November as well as four standard two- to three-week progra
Archive · 11/18/2019Brief comments from US journalists after November alumni program in GermanyThe RIAS Berlin Commission recently completed its one-week November exchange program with 30 U.S. journalists in Berlin to report on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There were talks with former NBC n
Archive · 11/14/2019Record-breaking RIAS Alumni program in Berlin 2019The RIAS Berlin Commission completed its week-long senior editor and alumni program onNovember 11 for 30 US alumni — setting a record for the largest group. Monika Grütters, minister of state for culture and media in Ger
Archive · 11/12/2019Call for Entries 2020!To view our call for entries flyer please click here. RADIO, TV AND DIGITAL MEDIA AWARDS The RIAS Berlin Commission annually presents awards for excellence in reporting on German-American issues. The awards are given for
Archive · 11/07/2019RIAS alumni group hears former NBC anchor Brokaw talk about Berlin Wall fallRIAS alumni group hears former NBC anchor Brokaw talk about Berlin Wall fall scoops FF ormer NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw talked to RIAS Berlin alumni from the United States about the scoop of his lifetime in Berlin — the 
Archive · 09/27/2019Brief comments from US journalists after September exchange program in GermanyBrief comments from US journalists after September exchange program in Germany The RIAS Berlin Commission recently completed its two-week September exchange program with 10 U.S. journalists. They visited Brussels, Cologn
Archive · 09/21/2019RIAS group from USA on tour to Brussels, Cologne, Erfurt and BerlinTen American broadcast journalists hit the ground running on the first week of their two-week RIAS Berlin Commission fellowship. The whirlwind program began with two days of briefings from senior officials from the EuropArchive · 09/15/2019Application Deadline: April 1, 2019September 15–27, 2019 – Application Deadline: April 1, 2019 The RIAS journalist exchange offers a two-week program in Germany (with the option of an extension of up to one week for individual research projects and report