The Transatlantic Partnership in Uncertain Times:
New York Burns Dinner 2017
By Melanie de Klerk (Burns 2016)
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Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg speaking at the New York dinner
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High above the lights of New York City, the offices of Goldman Sachs provided the setting for the Burns dinner on February 27.
The dinner kicked off the 30th anniversary of the fellowship and the tone was optimistic, albeit mixed with the sober realities of the new political landscape unfolding in both the United States and Europe.
The keynote speaker for the evening, former German Defense Minister and current chairman of Spitzberg Partners Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, would address this in his speech.
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Studying Germany's Energiewende:
Burns Alumni Tour Offers Insights and Parallels
Emily Schultheis (Burns 2013)
When thirteen Burns alumni signed up last fall for a four-day study tour in Germany in December, we had no idea we would be making the trip less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
But that's how things turned out -- and it made for an interesting two-way dialogue with the German experts and politicians with whom we met along the way.
Alumni study tour group in front of the German Bundestag.
Photo credit: Curt Nickisch (Burns 2005)
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Art in the Age of Trump: A Holbrooke Grant Report
By Kito Nedo
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Downtown Los Angeles Women's March, January 21, 2017
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My aim in Los Angeles was to investigate the underlying philosophies and economies that shape the current art education in the city, which is having an exceptional art boom that is drawing international artists, dealers and collectors to southern California. In talking to artists, architects and scholars, I also investigated the revival of the specific modernist heritage that continues to impact the architecture and arts of Los Angeles. But it was impossible to ignore the new political environment and its impact on the arts.
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Burns Alumna Leaves Behind a Legacy of Adventure
 It is with heavy hearts that we announce Amanda Lee (Bensen) Fiegl, a 2007 alumna of the Burns Fellowship, passed away on Jan. 12, 2017, following a two-year cancer illness.
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George Krimsky, AP Journalist and Founding Burns Trustee, Died in January
Founding Burns Fellowship trustee George Atwell Krimsky of
Washington, Connecticut, died on January 20, 2017. He was 75 years old. Krimsky was a long-time reporter and editor for the Associated Press and co-founder of
the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C.
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Dagmar Aalund has transferred back to New York with The Wall Street Journal to take the post of Deputy Page One News Editor, after three years in London as editor for politics and economics in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Karl Doemens
, previously editor-at-large in Berlin, is the new U.S. correspondent for DuMont Mediengruppe, which includes the Berliner Zeitung and Frankfurter Rundschau. He started his new position in Washington, DC, in February.
1999
Warren Cohen
won a 2016 Streamy Award for Best Online Documentary Series, for which he served as executive producer/head of video. The series examined a spate of mysterious banker suicides following the financial crisis.
After six years as the Tel Aviv bureau chief and correspondent for ARD German Radio, Torsten Teichmann will move to Washington, DC, and start as an ARD correspondent there on Sept. 1.
Lara Fritzsche
was awarded the Deutsche Reporterpreis for her story "Frauenlauer" on the female-dominated election campaign in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, published in SZ Magazin. Christine Lagorio-Chafkin is a senior writer at Inc. Magazine and author of the forthcoming book We Are the Nerds.
2010
Johannes Boie
left Süddeutsche Zeitung to join Axel Springer Publishing in Berlin as the executive assistant to chairman and CEO Mathias Döpfner (Burns 1988). Clay Risen oversees the daily op-ed report for The New York Times.
2012
Takis Würger published to great acclaim his first novel Der Club (Kein & Aber Publishing), a story about crime, boxing, gentlemen clubs and love.
2015
Eliot Brown
is moving to San Francisco for The Wall Street Journal. Daniel Guillemette left Canada to join WNYC in New York this spring. Ilona von Viczian started a new position in November as staff line producer at The Stream at AJStream.
2016
Kemi Aladesuyi
returned to Berlin to freelance for NPR.
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The Burns Fellowship program is
administered jointly by:
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Berlin Dinner:
May 29, 2017
Deutsche Bank
30th Anniversary Event:
May 31, 2017
German Embassy, Washington
Washington Reception:
July 26, 2017
German Ambassador's Residence
2017 Fellowships:
July 25 - Sept. 30, 2017
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Click
here to see a list of the 2017 German Burns Fellows. The U.S./Canadian Fellows will be
announced in April.
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Visit our website t
o see the full list of the U.S. and German Board of Trustees.
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By contributing to Arthur F. Burns Fellowships, Inc., you allow us to make a difference for German, American and Canadian journalists, their news organizations and their audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. To make a tax-deductible donation, please contact Burns.
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The Holbrooke Research Grants offer stipends of up to €4,000 to as many as 10-15 print, broadcast and new media journalists. Grantees will be selected by an advisory board, including professionals and trustees working in journalism.
Click
here to learn how to apply.
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The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Newsletter is published three times a year by the International Center for Journalists.
Burns Program Staff:
Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, IJP
Emily Schult, Senior Program Director, ICFJ
Lori Ke, Program Assistant, ICFJ
Maia Curtis, Burns Consultant
Named in honor of the late former U.S. ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former Federal Reserve Board chairman, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program fosters greater understanding of transatlantic relations among future leaders of the news media.
The Burns program was established in 1988 in Germany by the Internationale Journalisten-Programme (formerly the Initiative Jugendpresse) and was originally designed for young German journalists. In 1990, the fellowship expanded to include American journalists, making it a true exchange. In 2013, it expanded to include Canadian journalists.
Each year 20 outstanding journalists from the United States, Canada and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries. The program offers young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.
Fellows work as part-time staff members at host newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. In addition to covering local news, fellows report on events for their employers back home, while learning more about their host country and its media.
This competitive program is open to U.S., Canadian and German journalists who are employed by a newspaper, news magazine, broadcast station or news agency, and to freelancers. Applicants must have demonstrated journalistic talent and a strong interest in North American-European affairs. German language proficiency is not required, but is encouraged.
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