2016

TWO-WEEK GERMANY PROGRAMS 2016
Summer and Fall


RIAS Germany Program – Summer
June 13–25, 2016

Twelve U.S. journalists were participating in the Germany summer program. They spent the first week in Berlin for talks on current political, economic and media issues. In the second week they traveled to Erfurt, the capital of the German state of Thuringia, to Cologne with visits of Germany’s biggest public and private stations WDR and RTL, and finally to Brussels for talks with the European Commission and with NATO. Individual extension program for three participants.

 

 

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REPORTS OF PARTICIPANTS

Olivia Allen-Price, KQED, San Francisco, CA

It was muscle memory that prompted me to turn on my cellphone after making the long journey from San Francisco to Berlin. It’s a habit I perform anytime I fly. As soon as the wheels hit the tarmac, I catch a signal and check up on my little patch of the virtual world. This time: 65 new work emails and five personal ones. Seventeen Twitter notifications. 34 likes on that Instagram photo. A missed call from my college friend. As I crouched over my phone in the tiny airplane seat, I started to feel that usual rush that comes from each little notification. That feeling of being connected, and somehow important.

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RIAS Germany Program – Fall
October 3–15, 2016

Twelve U.S. journalists are participating in the Germany fall program. They spend the first week in Berlin for talks on current political, economic and media issues. In the second week they travel to Dresden, to Prague, and finally to Brussels for talks with the European Commission and with NATO. Individual extension program for tw. participants.

 

 

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REPORTS OF PARTICIPANTS

Amena Al-Sadi, KUOW, Seattle, WA

The first time I visited Berlin was in September of 2015. It was the height of the refugee crisis and hundreds of thousands of refugees were crossing the borders of Germany. TV and newspaper reports were filled with stories of Germans cheering, waving and welcoming refugees into the country. People gathered in Potsdamer Platz to hold a pro-refugee rally. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the task of handling the crisis anβ€œhistoric test of Europe” and she called on Germany to lead the way for the rest of Europe as they grappled with the rapid influx of people. When I came back to Berlin in the fall of 2016 for the RIAS fellowship, the flow of refugees had subsided but the anxiety over how to handle the new population had risen. Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of homes, social services, jobs and need to learn a new language and culture. According to a June 2016 report on Flight, Political Asylum and Integration from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, the issue of refugees and integration is perceived by Germans as the β€œcountry’s most pressing problem.” Many worry about how so many refugees will integrate into German society. It has exposed a dark, xenophobic attitude held by some citizens. It will be a focus of Angela Merkel’s election in 2017 and it was one of the recurring issues of our fellowship.

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