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The Transatlantic Partnership in Uncertain Times:
New York Burns Dinner 2017
By Melanie de Klerk (Burns 2016)
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.
Before hearing from zu Guttenberg, Executive Vice President of Goldman Sachs John F.W. Rogers opened the dinner by reminding those in attendance that we have witnessed a global shift and the outcomes of that shift have been unfathomable so far.
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With the rise of Donald Trump to the highest political office in the United States and the continued rise of populism in Europe, Rogers said, "the world has grown smaller and the lynch pin is an objective and informed media. Journalists today are important filters to bring us important news."
This was strongly underscored when zu Guttenberg took to the podium and echoed this comment, saying that the Burns program was more necessary than ever.
Zu Guttenberg didn't take long to capture the audience's attention with his willingness to poke fun at himself and his penchant for humor injected into a serious analysis of the relationship between the United States and Europe.
The overall theme was one of optimism for the future of the transatlanti
c relationship, tinged with realism and caution. He addressed Europe's current rise of populism and the concern that such tendencies could sweep across the continent following the Brexit vote and the rise in tensions over the migrant influx into member states.
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He laid out
these concerns as the European Union now struggles to find its path forward in the wake of Brexit and member states that are questioning the usefulness of the EU. He likened the EU to a patient on the operating table, where every
once in a while someone stumbles over the cord for the life-support machine and then someone else gets up and plugs it back in, resetting the system.
The vivid image spoke to the very real issues that the EU now faces as they plot their way forward without Britain, and navigate a rising tide of politicians capitalizing on the fear of losing national identities and giving away too much.
Of course, the U.S. is now facing its own challenges as an unpredictable leader takes over the reins of the country. Zu Guttenberg underscored the issue of unpredictability and its effect not just on the U.S., but its allies around the world. He also specifically addressed Germany in the context of the transatlantic relationship.
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d an appearance on a TV news program where he was asked about Chancellor Angela Merkel meeting Trump, and said he could only imagine that it was like Mother Theresa meeting Bart Simpson. Jokes aside, this pointed to the realities facing Germany's chancellor in a year in which Germans will be heading to the polls and scrutinizing Merkel and her party's every move. He pointed out that not just her handling of the refugee influx or the implications of Brexit are under a microscope, but so too is her handling of relationships such as that with the United States.
Zu Guttenberg referred to the chancellor as a committed "transatlanticist" and said he believes that "there is no alternative to the transatlantic relationship."
In closing, zu Guttenberg once again hammered home the fact that there is a new political reality shaping the U.S. that is having ripple effects around the world. He expressed his concern that Europe not be, as he called it, "Donaldized," and further stressed the importance of a free press. "A European political landscape being Donaldized would be a frightening prospect," he said and added, looking pointedly at the journalists assembled around the room, "Keep up the fight."
Melanie de Klerk is an assignment editor for Global National, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She spent her 2016 Burns Fellowship at Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin.
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From left: The Honorable Dr. Peter Wittig, German Ambassador to the United States and Burns Patron; Marcus Brauchli, Burns Chairman; Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former German Defense Minister; and John F.W. Rogers, Executive Vice President of Goldman Sachs and Burns Trustee
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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.
The study tour focused on the Energiewende, or the German energy transition. A global leader in renewable energy production, Germany has set ambitious targets for its reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and cutting energy consumption across the country. Though we learned that Germany is still a ways from meeting its targets for the year 2020, it has made big strides toward the goals it has set.
At every meeting, we asked questions on topics ranging from goals of the Energiewende to electrical grid storage to the politics of the coal phase-out in Germany, looking for parallels and differences between Germany's energy policies and those of the U.S. In return, we were asked all sorts of questions about President-elect Trump and what he would do when he took office in January. (At the time, even we had far more questions than answers.)
We began our tour on a Sunday evening in Berlin. Sven Egenter of the Clean Energy Wire and Katharina Umpfenbach of the Ecologic Institute, the two organizations that sponsored the study tour, gave us an introduction to the energy industry in Germany and what's being done to increase the use of renewables. That night, we ate schnitzel and spent time getting to know one another.
The first day of the tour dealt largely with private energy companies in Germany, and their efforts to contribute to the Energiewende. We spoke with officials at ARGE Netz, a company in Berlin which focuses on wind energy and grid storage. That afternoon, we traveled out to the Berlin suburbs to tour Younicos, learning how its battery storage works and seeing the testing facility in action.
Our second day focused more on the government side of energy issues. We met with Rainer Baake at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, whose knowledge about the history of the Energiewende and energy issues in Germany is unparalleled. We then went over to the Bundestag for a meeting with Annalena Baerbock, the climate spokeswoman for the Greens and a member of parliament. She talked about the political and messaging challenges that the Energiewende faces, as well as how other parties (like Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democratic Union) are discussing the issue ahead of elections. We also had a chance to question executives at Volkswagen -- though only off the record.
Just as useful was a dinner with former American and German Burns alumni living in Berlin, who spoke to us about the upcoming German elections and answered our questions about German politics. Andrew Curry (2003), Anna Sauerbrey (2013), Dana Heide (2016) and Fabian Reinbold (2016) all had fascinating insights about the current state of politics, which was useful with such important elections coming up in September.
As a political reporter, the Energiewende was an entirely new topic for me: my past experience with covering energy and climate issues has been confined to how the topic is used in campaign and political rhetoric here in the U.S. But
with a packed study tour full of industry and political experts, I came away with a new understanding of the issue and its importance. Overall, the tour was a useful and interesting deep dive into an issue about which I previously knew very little -- and a wonderful chance to bond with fellow Burns alumni from all corners of the journalism world.
Emily Schultheis is a political reporter for CBS News. She is based in Washington, D.C., where she has covered politics and campaigns since 2010. She spent her Burns Fellowship in 2013 at Spiegel Online International in Berlin.
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
It lies in the nature of historic moments that you do not see them coming. When I took the plane from Berlin to Los Angeles as a recipient of the Holbrooke Research Grant in early January, I knew that Donald Trump would be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States later that month. But I was by no means prepared for the daily feelings of disbelief while watching the first steps of the new administration. Who could have been prepared for this messy state of affairs? The hasty furor with which executive orders were signed in the White House day after day, the chaos and resistance that followed the first unsuccessful implementation of the so-called travel ban, or the repeated attacks on the media, such as The New York Times and CNN.
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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.
Is this "Trumpocracy"-an American autocracy in the making? What does it mean when a president declares a "running war with the media," even denouncing it as the "enemy of the American people"? What does it mean when one of the president's top political advisers openly admits he wants to destroy the state? Does the vague promise of "bringing back the jobs" liberate an administration from any accountability on all other matters?
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Downtown Los Angeles Women's March, January 21, 2017
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This widely shared confusion about the present and near future was almost palpable around me. It seemed to be everywhere I went, permeating every conversation I had, either openly or silently. And unsettlingly, at the same time everyday life continued-business as usual. But there was one moment of empowerment that stood out, and that was the
Los Angeles Women's March, which drew thousands to the downtown streets.
Maybe it's that weird mix of estrangement and activism that I will remember later on as the dominant feeling of this trip. One of the bookshops in downtown Los Angeles dedicated a whole shelf to the classics of dystopian literature, from Kafkas' The Trial to Huxleys' Brave New World. It made perfect sense.
In a way, journalism seems to struggle with similar issues that contemporary art does these days. "Art in the Age of Donald Trump" was the title of a roundtable discussion during the Los Angeles Art Fair that I visited at the end of January. Five contemporary artists from different generations discussed how the arts and artists should respond to the new administration. And it is not just about the fight for the independent federal agency the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), whose existence is threatened by budget cuts.
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Questions that were explored included: does contemporary art need to be more political to make more of an impact? Does it even need a counter-populist approach? And what would such counter-populism look like? How is information currently distributed and how do artists burst the social media bubble in order to reach out to the opposing side, thus cracking the dangerous echo chambers? What happens to artistic imagination and fiction in the era of "fake news"? Why is nobody talking about boycotting oligarch collectors? And how does one produce critical art without reproducing Trump's image over and over again?
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Los Angeles Art Book Fair installation by Mike Mills and Experimental Jetset, February 2017
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In my view, filmmaker, artist and graphic designer Mike Mills (in collaboration with Amsterdam-based Graphic Design Studio Experimental Jetset) found one way to answer this last question. When I visited this year's LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, the number 2,864,974 was hung in big bold letters over the crowd, signifying the margin of Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead in the past election.
Does a newly politicized art and culture mean that the days of irony and coolness are finally over? Especially in the art world, which loves irony, it would be a stark shift. But a lot of people don't expect this change. Looking at real-time and popular art forms such as late shows and comedy suggests the opposite. In one twisted way, Trump might even be helping the resurrection of critical culture (including quality journalism).
"In the near future, and maybe still 200 years from now, people will make fun of us Americans and the fact that we elected this president," a professor told me as we drove along the freeway in Los Angeles to visit an art school in a northern suburb. "We might as well start making fun of the situation here and now."
As we discussed these matters, we passed through the striking beauty of Los Angeles, with its palm trees, looping and interwoven freeways, and the grandeur of a truly endless city.
Kito Nedo is a Berlin-based art critic and journalist. He is a regular contributor to the
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) and art - Das Kunstmagazin (Hamburg), as well as international art publications, such as frieze magazine (London) or artnet.com (New York).
He is the author of several monographic essays on contemporary artists, including Daniel Richter, Georg Herold
and Michael Sailstorfer. He is an alumnus of the Internationale Journalisten Programme's (IJP) Asia-Pacific Fellowship.
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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.
Amanda was a brilliant editor and journalist whose keen eye and poetic prose was captured in a blog she kept during her illness, "Life Upstaged: Adventures of a Young Mom with Metastatic Cancer," at
https://lifeupstaged.com/
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Most recently, she was a senior editor at Nature Conservancy magazine. She also worked as an associate editor at National Geographic and an assistant editor at Smithsonian magazine. She wrote features and reported at The (Glens Falls, N.Y.) Post-Star and Reuters news bureau in Frankfurt, Germany, as a Burns Fellow.
In addition to reading and writing, Amanda loved to ski, hike and travel, and enjoyed friendships with childhood friends and others she met while traveling around the world.
Amanda is survived by her husband Charles and their daughter Eleanor of Silver Spring, Md.; parents Craig and Deb (Robertson) Bensen of Cambridge, Vt.; brother Benjamin Bensen (wife, Ilse) of Fort Mill, S.C.; grandmother Eleanor Bensen of East Corinth, Vt.; in-laws Leonard and Nora (Hartman) Fiegl of Williamsville, N.Y.; and nieces and nephews.
Contributions in her name can be made to The Ruesch Center, GUMC Advancement/Ruesch Center, 3300 Whitehaven St., NW, Suite 4000, Washington, D.C., 20007.
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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. Highlights of his fascinating career include covering Charles Manson's arrest; serving as a foreign correspondent in the Soviet Union, where he held secret meetings with Josef Stalin's grandson; and serving in Beirut, where he covered the Lebanese civil war, as well as Syria, Jordan and Iraq. In 1978, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
In 1985, along with Tom Winship and Jim Ewing, he founded what later became the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C. He served as the center's first president and partnered with Frank Freiling and the Internationale Journalisten-Programme to make the Burns Fellowship a two-way exchange between German and U.S. journalists. The Burns Fellowship is ICFJ's longest-running program.
Krimsky is survived by his wife, Paula; two children and six grandchildren.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the COPD Foundation, 3300 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Miami, Florida 33134.
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1990
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.
1991
Olaf Kische
is still married, has three children (ages 28, 21 and 15), and recently had his first granddaughter.
1992
Christel Haas
became a correspondent for ZDF in Paris in February.
1995
Wulf Schmiese
became head of the news department show "Heute Journal" at ZDF last April, moving from Berlin's capital bureau to headquarters in Mainz. Dominik Wichmann, formerly editor-in-chief of the weekly Der Stern and editor-in-chief at DLD, is starting an external editorial team for Mercedes-Benz called Looping Group, which will support the company's media and content department. The group will be based in Hamburg and Munich.
1998
Carter Dougherty
has left journalism and now works for Americans for Financial Reform, a non-
profit dedicated to making the financial system fairer and stronger. Daniel Hicks has a new website for his communications agency Florida Sustainability Partners (FLSP): dandhicks.com.
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.
2000
Oliver G. Becker
of Occasione Documentaries went to South Sudan again on a new assignment. He is documenting facial scarification/body modification by different ethnic groups of the world's youngest nation for a photo exhibition in June 2017.
Peter Riesbeck
left Brussels and the
Berliner Zeitung
and founded Look!Listen!, a media agency for turning print journalism into podcasts.
2001
David Schraven
, head of the investigative research team Correctiv, has been threatened by Turkish nationalists after Correctiv decided to host the Turkish-language website Özgürüz, enabling critical reporting from Berlin on the political developments in Turkey. Andreas Tzortzis is co-executive producer and host of "The Red Bulletin Presents" podcast, aired by Red Bull Media House.
2002
 After three years as social media editor of The Moscow Times, Katrin Scheib joined
Coda Story
. It is a single-issue web platform that puts a team of journalists on one crisis at a time and stays with it. They are currently concentrating on migration and disinformation. The group is based in New York, with offices in Tbilisi and Berlin. Katrin will work as Coda's social media editor from Moscow.
2004
Max von Klitzing's
project
www.parisprotokoll.de
was nominated for the Grimme Online Award in 2016 and also for the Goldene Kamera Digital Award in the reportage category. Das
Paris-Protokoll was a cross-media project on the 2015 climate conference in Paris. An editorial team of 10 journalists blogged and produced daily radio and TV reports (for ARD/NDR), including a 30 minute TV show. They provided deep insights into international climate diplomacy, and learned many technical skills in the process. Max would be interested in exchanging know-how in this field -- please send him an email if you're interested.
Thilo Knott
was promoted to one of three members of the management board (Chefredaktion) of Berliner Zeitung and Berliner Kurier.
2005
Geeta Dayal
, an arts journalist who primarily writes for The Guardian, spoke on a panel at the Whitney Museum in New York about the state of arts funding and the role of arts journalism in the new Trump-dominated landscape. She will also be speaking at NYU on March 28. Christian Thiele has moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and is still working as a coach and trainer for leaders in media enterprises.
2007
Please see Amanda (Bensen) Fiegl's obituary above.
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.
2008
In December, Sarah Wildman accepted a position at Vox.com to cover foreign policy, international identities and borders.
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.
2011
Mark Garrison
will be moving to London in the spring to follow his wife's job. He will continue working for NPR's Marketplace.
2012
Takis Würger published to great acclaim his first novel Der Club (Kein & Aber Publishing), a story about crime, boxing, gentlemen clubs and love.
2013
Since January, Anna Sauerbrey is in charge of the opinion pages at Berlin's daily Der Tagesspiegel, as well as the online debating format Tagesspiegel Causa and the attached social media formats.
2014
Robin Alexander
, a reporter for Die Welt, wrote a book about Chancellor Merkel's controversial refugee policy published by Siedler in March. Die Getriebenen: Merkel und die Fluechtlingspolitik: Report aus dem Innern der Macht, reports on 180 days in German politics, from the opening of the borders in September 2015 to the deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It not only offers insight into the chancellery, but also describes decision-making in the European Council and NATO headquarters.
Rick Noack
will finish his master's degree at King's College in London this summer. He is still freelancing from there for The Washington Post and RTL TV. M
aya Shwayder
was promoted and is now a DC correspondent for Deutsche Welle. She moved to Washington on January 15.
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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Dear Alumni,
The transatlantic relationship is in the midst of truly turbulent times. Therefore it is a great pleasure to celebrate our 30th anniversary this year, honoring the Burns Fellowship's steadying impact on the transatlantic partnership.
Our 30th festivities began with the New York alumni dinner on February 27, with 80 alumni and trustees attending and former German Secretary of Defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as guest of honor. His speech brought calm and consistency into evaluating the political talks between our nations.
A special anniversary dinner will be held in Washington, DC, on May 31, also celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's famous Brandenburg Gate speech, and a second one to welcome the new class of fellows on July 26. Both events will take place at the German ambassador's residence. The Berlin alumni dinner will take place on May 29. Finally, a west coast alumni dinner in San Francisco in mid-November will conclude our social calendar, aimed at bringing you all together in 2017.
We have also begun picking the new class of fellows -- the Germans have been selected, while the North Americans will be chosen at the end of this month. You will find the German fellows listed in this newsletter. Hopefully you will meet some of them this summer in DC or if they are placed near you in the United States or Canada during their fellowship.
The world has changed a lot in the past thirty years. When the Burns Fellowship started, we had no idea what challenges lay ahead for our countries. German unification, 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now a new U.S. administration at odds with its neighbors and allies. We are determined to keep expanding the dialogue between journalists, since only the ability to talk to friends and colleagues, check facts across the Atlantic and not rely on fake news or summaries by third parties, can keep our nations fully informed. Beside the Holbrooke grants, we will also try to establish the Westerwelle grants, providing seed money for new long-term correspondents from the West Coast or Canada to Germany.
Enjoy the sun of spring after this long winter and I hope to see you all at one of our many alumni events this year!
Best,
Frank
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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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GERMAN FELLOWS
Thierry Backes,
Audience Editor, Süddeutsche.de
Oliver Bilger,
Freelancer, Der Tagesspiegel
Stefanie Dodt,
Author, Investigative Unit, NDR
Kajetan Dyrlich,
Reporter, MDR
Alexandra Eul,
Reporter, Emma
Sonja Gillert,
Foreign Affairs Writer, Welt-Gruppe
Anne Guhlich,
Senior Economics Editor, Stuttgarter Zeitung/Nachrichten
Wolfgang Kerler,
Freelancer, Investigative Unit, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Judith Liere,
Reporter, Stern
Martin Schlak,
Reporter, Geo magazine
Simon Schütz,
Freelancer, Bild.de
Lars Weisbrod,
Writer, Die Zeit
U.S./CANADIAN FELLOWS
Will be announced in April.
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North American Trustees (2016-2019)
Patron
: The Honorable Dr. Peter Wittig, German Ambassador to the United States
Don Baer,
Worldwide Chair & CEO, Burson-Marsteller
Joyce Barnathan
, President, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Ambassador (ret.) J.D. Bindenagel
,
Henry Kissinger Professor of Governance and International Security, University of Bonn, Germany
Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Managing Editor, The New York Times
Marcus W. Brauchli
,
Co-founder and Managing Partner, North Base Media; Consultant, Graham Holdings Company (Chairman)
Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Ambassador (ret.) Richard Burt, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Martin Bussmann, Managing Director, Mannheim Holdings LLC
Nikhil Deogun, Senior Vice President, Business News, CNBC
Daniel Eilemberg,
President and Chief Content Officer, Fusion
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
, Director, Internationale Journalisten Programme (IJP), e.V. (
Burns President
)
Prof. Dr. Ronald Frohne, President and CEO, GWFF USA, Inc.
Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor, The National Interest
Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence (Honorary Chairman)
Mitra Kalita,
Vice President of Digital Programming, CNN
Ambassador (ret.) Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale; Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
The Honorable Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates; Former U.S. Secretary of State
Christian Lange, President and CEO, EII Capital Management Inc.
The Honorable Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (Honorary Chairman)
The Honorable Richard G. Lugar, President, The Lugar Center; Former United States Senator
Kati Marton
, Journalist and Author
Jennifer McGuire,
General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, CBC News and Centres
Michael Oreskes, Senior Vice President for News and Editorial Director, NPR
Gen. David H. Petraeus,
Member, KKR & Chairman, KKR Global Institute
John F. W. Rogers
, Executive Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Honorable Hugh D. Segal,
Master, Massey College; Former Canadian Senator
Calvin Sims
, President and CEO, The International House
Dr. Nina Smidt,
President, American Friends of Bucerius
Wayne T. Smith,
Chairman of the Board and CEO, BASF Corporation
Kara Swisher
,
Co-CEO, Revere Digital; Co-Executive Editor, Re/code; and Co-Executive Producer, The Code Conference
Stanford S. Warshawsky
, Chairman, Bismarck Capital, LLC (
Vice Chairman
)
Ludwig Willisch, President and CEO, BMW of North America, LLC
Legal Advisor:
Phillip C. Zane,
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University
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German Trustees
Patron: TBA, U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Patron: The Honorable Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, Canadian Ambassador to Germany
Sven Afhüppe,
Editor-in-Chief, Handelsblatt
Dr. Thomas Bellut
,
Director-General, ZDF
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege
, Former German Ambassador
Nikolaus Blome, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Bild
Prof. Maria Böhmer
,
Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU, State Minister, Foreign Office
Klaus Brinkb
äumer
,
Editor-in-Chief,
Der Spiegel
Michael Bröcker
, Editor-in-Chief, Rheinische Post
Tom Buhrow
, Director-General, WDR
Stephan-Andreas Casdorff
, Editor-in-Chief, Der Tagesspiegel
Dr. Mathias Döpfner
, CEO, Axel Springer
Thomas Ellerbeck
, Director, TUI AG
Dr. Wolfgang Fink, Co-CEO, Goldman Sachs SE
Leonhard F. Fischer
, Partner, RHJI Swiss Management
Dr. Rüdiger Frohn
, Former State Secretary; Advisory Board, Mercator GmbH Foundation
Emilio Galli-Zugaro
,
Chairman, Methodos S.p.A.
Prof. Monika Grütters,
State Minister for Culture and Media
Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck
, Former Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank
(Honorary Chairman)
Peter Limbourg
,
Director-General, Deutsche Welle
Gesine Lötzsch
, Member of Parliament, Die Linke
Georg L
öwisch,
Editor-in-Chief,
Die Tageszeitung
Rob Meines
, Meines & Partner, Den Haag
Mathias Müller von Blumencron
, Editor-in-Chief of Digital Media, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Claudia Roth,
Vice President of the Bundestag, Member of Parliament, Die Gruenen
Helmut Schäfer
, Former State Minister, Foreign Office (Honorary Chairman)
Sabia Schwarzer
, Head Group Communications, Allianz SE
Steffen Seibert
, Parliamentary State Secretary, Government Spokesperson
Christian Sewing, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank (Chairman)
Dr. Dominik Wichmann,
Editor-in-Chief, DLD
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The Arthur F. Burns Board of Trustees in North America and Germany acknowledges with gratitude the support of the following organizations and individuals who have made the 2017 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship program possible.
Sponsors in the U.S.
American Friends of Bucerius
BASF
BMW of North America, LLC
Brauchli-Farley Fund
EII Capital Management, Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
GWFF USA, Inc.
The Ladenburg Foundation
Lufthansa German Airlines
Pew Charitable Trusts
Individual Contributions
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Sponsors in Germany
Allianz SE
Auswärtiges Amt
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Internationale Journalisten Programme (IJP) and the Arthur F. Burns Fellowships are providing a special opportunity for journalists with a passion for research and storytelling around the globe.
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.
The grants were renamed to honor Richard Holbrooke and his outstanding service in the field of international relations and specifically the German-American relationship. Holbrooke was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author and investment banker. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1993-1994 and the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1994-1996. He also helped form the American Academy in Berlin and was its founding chairman. Most recently, he served as the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He died in December 2010. These travel and research grants honor his legacy of cross-cultural exchange and diplomacy.
Who: All IJP and Burns alumni are eligible -- both newsroom staffers and freelancers.
What: The grants support ambitious journalism projects including, but not limited to, the global economic crisis. Joint projects between journalists from different countries are encouraged, but individual projects will also be considered. A transatlantic perspective should be part of the project.
When: The deadline is ongoing throughout 2017 until funds are exhausted.
Selection Criteria: When choosing, we consider each candidate's professional accomplishments and potential; his or her individual and organizational commitment; and the potential impact of the proposed journalistic project. For collaborative projects, each applicant should submit a separate application that incorporates the jointly developed project proposal. Click here for details on what to submit.
Requirements: The program will only review completed applications endorsed by a news organization. Stories must be published or broadcast within four months of grant award date. Eighty percent of the amount of each grant will be paid at the outset of the project, with the remaining 20 percent to be paid upon publication or broadcast.
Sponsored by: The Holbrooke Research Grants are financed by contributions from Goldman Sachs and the Ford Foundation.
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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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