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The Elephant in the Room at the Berlin Alumni Dinner
By Barbara Junge (Burns 1998)
This year, the atrium of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin seemed almost too small to accommodate the annual Burns Dinner. Thirty years of sending young fellows to the United States, Germany and Canada as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship means almost 600 alumni now, quite a lot of whom live and work in Berlin. One hundred sixty-five alumni and board members assembled in Berlin-Mitte on May 29 for this special 30
th
anniversary. However, the elephant in the room was Trump, Merkel and the future of transatlantic relations.
Barely two days before, U.S. President Donald Trump affronted the other G7 members on the climate accord and other issues in the Italian town of Taormina. German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly responded in a Bavarian beer tent with strong words indicating that the G7 summit in Italy had been a kind of wake-up call. "The times in which we can fully count on others are over to a certain extent. This is what I have experienced in the last few days," Merkel told the crowd at a campaign event. On this evening, the Burns Dinner in Berlin represented a room full of people convinced of the value of the transatlantic partnership, not least the Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Kent Logsdon. And although the topic was discussed at most tables, no speaker directly addressed the tense relations.
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Burns Trustee Christian Sewing of Deutsche Bank at the Berlin Dinner.
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However, Christian Sewing of Deutsche Bank, chairman of the Burns board of trustees, warned: "With great concern we see how freedom of the press is doing in some democracies." He mentioned fake news in the United States and imprisonments in Turkey. Sewing stressed the importance of journalism and freedom of the press "especially after last weekend." With this he touched on a critical subject for the Burns network. Besides unraveling a trusted partnership, Trump's presidency has already changed the working environment for journalists in the United States.
May 29 brought another interpretation of transatlantic relations. As it was also the 100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's birthday, Frank Freiling, president of the Burns Fellowship, took the opportunity to honor Kennedy. He also reminded the audience that the Burns Fellowship has seen quite a few U.S. presidencies during its 30 years. Freiling praised the Burns alumni network as "one-of-a-kind," and introduced the 30th class of fellows. He also announced that having since added Canada to the fellowship, the program might possibly add Mexico as well -- to see the wall-to-be-built from both sides.
The 2017 fellows will definitely see the United States at a unique time and from various perspectives. On June 1, President Trump told the world that he will direct the United States to quit the Paris climate accord. California Governor Jerry Brown reacted by releasing a statement saying that California, the sixth-largest economy in the world, had created 2.3 million jobs and cut unemployment in half with green energy. California would "resist this misguided and insane course of action. Trump is AWOL but California is on the field, ready for battle." Next year's Burns Dinner promises to be interesting, to say the least.
Barbara Junge is the deputy editor-in-chief of
taz.die tageszeitung
. From 2013 to 2016, she was the U.S. correspondent for the German daily
Tagesspiegel. She spent her Burns Fellowship in 1998 at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Frank-Dieter Freiling and
The Honorable Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, former
Canadian ambassador to Germany, at the Berlin Dinner.
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German fellows from the 2017 class at the Berlin Dinner.
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"Tear Down this Wall:"
The Inside Story of Reagan's Iconic Speech
By Curt Nickisch (Burns 2005)
At a
time when U.S. President Donald Trump dominates headlines with Twitter messages, the Burns Fellowship organized a panel to
commemorate the 30
th
anniversary of one of the more iconic speeches of the 20
th
century -- and also of the fellowship's founding. Burns alumni and friends of the fellowship in attendance at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C, heard the intriguing backstory behind Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech before Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in 1987.
Germany's Ambassador to the United States Peter Wittig introduced the panel that included Richard Burt, the U.S. ambassador to Germany at the time, and Peter Robinson, the speechwriter tasked with writing what is now considered Reagan's best spee
ch. Moderating the panel was Romesh Ratnesar, journalist and author of
Tear Down this Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War
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"I first wrote, 'Herr Gorbachev, machen Sie dieses Tor auf!'" Robinson remembered with a smile. "And [chief Reagan speechwriter] Tony
Dolan said, 'Peter, when your client is the president of the United States, give him his best line in English.'"
To research ideas for the speech, Robinson traveled to Berlin and took a helicopter ride along the wall to see the stark division. He also attended a dinner party where West Berliners gave him an awkward pause after he asked, "I've been told you've gotten used to the wall. Is it true?"
What he learned in those conversations was that just because they'd stopped talking about the wall didn't mean they had gotten used to it. "There was weariness, that was true," Robinson remembered. "But th
ey hated it."
One woman angrily told Robinson, "If this man Gorbachev is serious about this talk -- this glasnost, this perestroika -- he can prove it by coming here and getting rid of this wall." This German named Ingeborg Elz was the inspiration for the "great communicator's" most famous line: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Still, that personal, imperative phrase faced a great deal of opposition within the administration. One U.S. diplomat told Robinson, "No commie bashing. Don't have him sound like an anti-Soviet cowboy
." And in West Berlin, Mayor Eberhard Diepgen feared it would incite protests and violence in East Berlin.
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The Honorable Peter Wittig, German ambassador to the United States, delivers opening remarks.
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Robinson managed to get his draft to President Reagan before the State Department vetted the language, and the president latched onto it. Former Ambassador Burt explained, "It was authentic Reagan. You couldn't ask Reagan to come to Berlin and stand before the Berlin Wall and not say that."
Part of the enduring value of that iconic line is that nobody in 1987 expected any sort of popular uprising in the East anytime soon. "Being close to a situation doesn't necessarily mean you understand it," Burt said. "That's what made the Reagan remarks so refreshing and different."
Burt was sitting close to the president when Reagan delivered the speech. "I knew it was a great applause line," the former ambassador remembered. "But history, as President Obama says, has an arc. And of course, we would never celebrate that famous speech if in fact the events of 1989 had not transpired the way they did."
We also might not celebrate that famous speech the same way had it been delivered in a time of instant online communication, and the panelists discussed whether executive speeches still matter in the Twitter era.
"[President Trump] gave a very good speech to a joint session of Congress, and I think it would have resonated a little while longer if he hadn't undercut it by tweeting the next morning," Robinson said. "I think we still need speeches."
After the event, German Ambassador Peter Wittig said, "It was a great history and reminder what power a speech can have in the right moment, and what effect a strong alliance -- America, Germany, NATO -- can have on the course of history."
Curt Nickisch is a senior editor at
Harvard Business Review. He spent his Burns Fellowship in 2005 at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich.
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From left: Peter Robinson, Speechwriter to President Reagan, The Honorable Richard Burt, Former U.S. ambassador to Germany, and Romesh Ratnesar, author,
Tear Down This Wall: A City, A President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War.
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Panelists and Burns board members in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall at the SAIS entrance. From left: Peter Robinson, Ambassador Richard Burt, Ambassador Peter Wittig, Marcus Brauchli, and the Honorable Frank Loy.
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Arthur F. Burns Awards 2016
The 2016 Arthur F. Burns Awards are awarded by the German Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs to
one
German and
one
North American Burns alumnus or alumna for an outstanding journalistic piece on the political, economic or cultural situation in the partner country or on the transatlantic relationship.
The prize, worth 2000 Euro, for
the best German contribution
was awarded to two winners this year.
Nora Gantenbrink
, e
ditor
at Stern, was awarded for her report "Zerschlagen," published in Stern Crime on April 1, 2016. Nora Gantenbrink writes with remarkable density and also ease about a typical American subject: the struggle of man versus man, in this case with a tragic ending. Her report on the tragedy of a New York boxing match from 1983 is told with flashbacks and new insights into the inner-life of two men, whose encounter in the ring brought death to one and anguish to the other.
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From left: Nora Gantenbrink, Frank-Dieter Freiling, and
Jürgen Hardt, MdB, German Coordinator for Transatlantic Affairs, Foreign Office
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Kerstin Kohlenberg
, U.S. correspondent of Die Zeit in New York, was a
lso awarded
for her contribution "The American Dream / Brief an meine Tochter," published in Die Zeit on Dec. 08, 2016, and published on Zeit Online on Dec. 22, 2016. The election of Donald Trump challenges the view of the United States for many friends of America. In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Kerstin Kohlenberg explains why Trump's election makes her cry and why she still loves the United States. In an often touching way,
Kohlenberg
describes the conflict that this U.S. election brought to many Germans. The text convinces not least with its emotional power.
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Jürgen Hardt, MdB, German Coordinator for Transatlantic Affairs, Foreign Office
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The jury also praised
Barbara Leidl
, editor at Bayrischer Rundfunk and former U.S. correspondent, for her important feature "Unschuldig hinter Gittern," broadcast on Bayern 2 on June 10, 2016. She deals with the difficult problem of thousands of likely innocent people who are imprisoned in the United States because they could not afford a defender, a false confession was forced, or they were not old enough or experienced enough to understand their case.
The jury decided not to award a prize for
the best North American contribution
this year, as the United States in particular seemed more inwardly focused in 2016.
Andrew Curry, who lives in Berlin as a freelance correspondent, was also praised for his contribution to the November edition of
Rouleur Magazin
about the fate of four members of the Syrian national cycling team, who want to
continue
cycling in German exile. "The road from Damascus" describes their journey in an impressive way.
George F. Kennan Commentary Award
This annual award is presented by the board of trustees of the Internationale Journalisten-Programme and is given to a journalist who published a remarkable commentary related to the transatlantic relationship or the United States in a German publication last year. The winner receives a certificate and a 2,000 Euro prize.
This year the George F. Kennan Award was given to Ansgar Graw, a long-time U.S. correspondent for Die Welt, for his commentary "Warum sah ich seinen Sieg nicht kommen?", published on November 12, 2016, in Die Welt. Graw describes in excellent prose how he did not foresee Donald Trump's election victory, and even considered it impossible. In a conversation with his plumber, who criticizes him for this, Graw masterfully explains the formation of his former position and simultaneously reevaluates this opinion. He addresses his plumber and his readers neither with aggrieved defensiveness nor the rhetoric of a know-it-all. His commentary rises with greater understanding and self-reflection. At a time when journalism is exposed to harsh criticism, this is both courageous and valuable: self-doubt as an act of liberation!
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From left: Frank-Dieter Freiling, Ansgar Graw, and Christian Sewing.
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The jury for both awards is composed of trustees, former award winners and journalists:
Dr. Christoph von Marschall (Tagesspiegel), Claus Strunz (Axel Springer), Stefan Kornelius (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Michael Bröcker (Rheinische Post), and Frank-Dieter Freiling (ZDF).
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1989
Dr. Susanne Betz
is a politics editor and reporter for Bayerischer Rundfunk.
1991
Olaf Kische
has been the global project director for Media Ownership Monitor at Reporters without Borders since 2015.
1992
Catherine Girardeau
is now working as a senior producer with the Stanford Storytelling Project, producing podcasts and live storytelling events with college students.
Starting in September, Elisabeth Niejahr will become editor-at-large for the weekly business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. She will leave the weekly Die Zeit, where she has been economics correspondent and deputy chief of the Berlin bureau.
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"St. Moritz makes sense" art flag
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1993
Lenard F. Krawinkel
sold
his startup zoobe to his associates after eight years and is now working with C.W. Mann on public art installations. This summer, they will raise about 40 art flags under the title: "St. Moritz makes sense." They invite Burns alumni for a press trip to St. Moritz.
1994
Brian Zumhagen
is now the deputy press secretary at the New York City Department of Transportation.
1997
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Andreas Wunn with wife and son.
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After six years as ZDF's South America correspondent and bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro,
Andreas Wunn
is back in Berlin. He is the new head of ZDF's morning show, Morgenmagazin. His Brazilian wife Luiza and he are also very happy to announce the birth of their son Noah Joaquim, born on February 7 in Berlin.
1998
Dr. Nikolai A. Behr
produced a VR-360° experience for ARTE called "Be an astronaut for 22 seconds," which was awarded five international prizes. Nikolai's Munich-based production company, brain script, created the virtual reality experience together with two short documentaries on parabolic flights and scientific experiments under zero gravity conditions. In addition to a Gold Award at the WorldMedia Festival in May 2017, the documentary also won the W3 Award in Gold, a Davey Award in Silver, the Vega Digital Arcturus Award, and the Muse Gold Award. (Start you own Zero-G flight experience in English
or in German
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"Be an astronaut for 22 seconds," Dr. Nikolai A. Behr's VR-360 experience for ARTE.
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1999
Stefan Schirmer
recently moved from Dresden to Hamburg.
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Manuel Unger
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2000
Sandra Ratzow
is returning to ARD headquarters after serving as their TV correspondent in Washington since January 2015. Manuel Unger is
still working as a freelance journalist, after working for seven years as a radio host at DRadio Wissen. In May, he started at WDR 4 as a host and is also working as a TV journalist for ARD Morgenmagazin and legendary Rockpalast.
2005
Sabra Ayres
is
the new Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She started on May 1 and moved to Russia on May 15. So far, the friendliest expat journalists she has met have all been Germans. If any Burns alumni are in Russia, she'd be pleased to get in touch!
Alex Davidson
started a new position as marketing manager for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Previously he was a social media strategist, editor, and writer with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
2008
Sarah Wildman
joined Vox.com in January to help create a new position covering global identities and borders. She has been looking a great deal at populism in the European elections (and went to France to witness the Macron phenomenon) and hopes to return to Germany on assignment for Vox. She's still living with her family in D.C.
2011
Gordon Repinski
, who just returned from D.C. after a stint there as correspondent for the weekly Der Spiegel, is leaving the magazine to become chief of the Berlin bureau for RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland RND, a joint media initiative for the Madsack newspapers and several other regional media in Germany. He will start his new position later this summer.
2012
Sonia Kennebeck
, until recently a TV correspondent in the U.S., aired to great media acclaim her documentary "National Bird," co-produced by Wim Wenders, on the U.S. drone program.
2013
Amrai Coen
and colleague Tanja Stelzer were awarded the Henri Nannen Award, one of Germany's most prestigious media awards, for best reporting for an article published in the weekly Die Zeit called "Brussels, March 22, 2016," a remarkable portrait of the victims of the Brussels terror attack.
2014
Sven Boell
, an economics correspondent in Berlin for the weekly Der Spiegel since 2012, is joining PR agency Hering Schuppener as director of capital markets in Frankfurt.
2015
Dave Blanchard
is moving to Washington, D.C., to be a producer at NPR's Morning Edition.
Pia Dangelmayer
was part of the winning team for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service this year for a series that she worked on full-time at ProPublica during her Burns Fellowship. She wrote, "I already knew that my summer in New York was amazing, but this honor makes it even better."
Daniel Guillemette
has a new job as associate audio producer at WNYC.
2016
Mareike Aden
joined the London bureau of ARD, Germany's public broadcasting network, on June 1 and will stay until October 15, 2017. She will be covering the general elections in the United Kingdom and their aftermath, the Brexit-negotiations and all other things UK -- even the royals occasionally. She is a television, radio and online reporter with a focus on national and international politics and is normally based in Hamburg. Dylan Robertson joined the Winnipeg Free Press as their Ottawa correspondent.
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Fellowship Opportunities for Burns Alumni
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The German Chancellor Fellowship for tomorrow's leaders
Application deadline: September 15, 2017
Start of fellowship: October 1, 2018
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 50 German Chancellor Fellowships every year to prospective leaders from Brazil, China, India, Russia and the United States -- irrespective of their field of work. Recipients use the fellowship to conduct, together with their German host and mentor, a socially-relevant project that they have developed themselves.
Fellowship benefits
- A monthly fellowship of €2,150, €2,450 or €2,750, depending on your qualifications
- Individual mentoring during your stay in Germany
- Additional financial support for items such as family members accompanying you, travel expenses or a German language course
- A study tour of Germany, an opportunity to meet the German chancellor at the end of your stay and a number of events during which you can make contact with other fellows and representatives of German companies and institutions
- Extensive alumni sponsorship, particularly to help you sustain contact with collaborative partners in Germany during your entire professional career
Application requirements
- The applicant must be a national of Brazil, China, India, Russia or the United States.
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Bachelor's or equivalent academic degree completed less than twelve years before the beginning of the fellowship
- A confirmation of supervision by the host in Germany
- A project plan which candidates must draw up on their own and coordinate with their host.
- Initial proven leadership experience
Application
Advice and contact
If you have any questions regarding the German Chancellor Fellowship Programme or would like individual guidance, please contact us at
[email protected]
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The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany is the patron of this fellowship programme.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jean-Paul-Straße 12
53173 Bonn
GERMANY
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International Center
for Journalists
2000 M St. NW, Suite 250
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: 1-202-737-3700
Fax:1-202-737-0530
Email:
[email protected]
URL:
www.ICFJ.org
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Internationale Journalisten- Programme
Postfach 1565
D-61455
Königstein/Taunus
Tel: +49-6174-7707
Fax: +49-6174-4123
Email:
[email protected]
URL:
www.IJP.org
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The Burns Fellowship program is
administered jointly by:
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Dear Alumni,
This is a special year for the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship. We will soon welcome the 30th class of Burns Fellows and are therefore celebrating 30 years of this exchange of media excellence in the transatlantic field.
What a turbulent three decades it has been. From German unification to the Iraq war, from Bush Sr. to Clinton to Bush Jr. to Obama and now Trump. It is a first in thirty years though, that in late May, a German chancellor had to state that its partnership with the United States is no longer a reliable one. However, the Berlin Dinner, held on May 29, the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birthday, served as a reminder that politics and media have to be part of the transatlantic dialogue for the long run, something to which the Burns Fellowship is committed. And so we celebrated on a positive note at the Berlin Dinner with more than half of all German alumni in attendance.
On July 26, we will continue our anniversary celebrations at the traditional dinner and reception for the new class of fellows at the German ambassador's residence in Washington. I especially hope that those who couldn't make it to the Burns Dinner in New York in late February will try to join us in D.C. for a toast and a revival of old friendships and contacts.
Let the start of a fourth decade of transatlantic exchanges be the continuation of what has made this program so strong -- a network of media excellence and friendship, a great body of friends and colleagues in three countries across the Atlantic who are always ready for partnership, dialogue and new adventures.
In that spirit, I wish you a great summer and let's meet again soon, somewhere!
Best,
Frank
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Washington Reception:
July 26, 2017
Residence of the German Ambassador
2017 Fellowships:
July 25 - Sept. 30, 2017
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GERMAN FELLOWS
Thierry Backes,
Audience Editor, Süddeutsche.de
Hosted by: The Denver Post,
Denver, CO
Oliver Bilger,
Freelancer, Der Tagesspiegel
Hosted by:
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Philadelphia, PA
Stefanie Dodt,
Author, Investigative Unit, NDR
Hosted by: ProPublica,
New York, NY
Kajetan Dyrlich,
Reporter, MDR
Hosted by: TBA
Alexandra Eul,
Reporter, Emma
Hosted by: Globe and Mail,
Toronto, ON
Sonja Gillert,
Foreign Affairs Writer, Welt-Gruppe
Hosted by: The Austin American Statesman, Austin, TX
Anne Guhlich,
Senior Economics Editor, Stuttgarter Zeitung/Nachrichten
Hosted by:
The Wall Street Journal,
Washington, D.C.
Judith Liere,
Reporter, Stern
Hosted by: TBA
Max Muth,
Freelancer,
Bayerischer Rundfunk/BR 24
Hosted by: The New Orleans Advocate, New Orleans, LA
Martin Schlak,
Reporter, Geo magazine
Hosted by: The Seattle Times, Seattle, WA
Simon Schütz,
Freelancer, Bild.de
Hosted by: Fusion, New York, NY
Lars Weisbrod,
Writer, Die Zeit
Hosted by:
Vulture.com,
New York, NY
U.S./CANADIAN FELLOWS
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian,
Assistant Editor,
Foreign Policy
Magazine
Hosted by: Die Tageszeitung (taz), Berlin
Craig Desson,
Digital Producer, CBC Radio
Hosted by: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk - MDR Radio, Halle, Leipzig and Dresden
Sara Germano,
Staff Reporter,
The Wall Street Journal
Hosted by:
Bild,
Berlin
Lisa Hagen,
Campaign Reporter,
The Hill
Hosted by:
Handelsblatt,
Berlin
Colleen Hagerty,
Video Journalist, BBC
Casey Herman,
Producer, TED Radio Hour, National Public Radio
Rachel Lerman,
Technology Reporter,
The Seattle Times
Hosted by:
Der Tagesspiegel,
Berlin
Margaret Penman,
Contributing Reporter,
National Public Radio
Hosted by: Deutsche Presseagentur (dpa), English/
International Service,
Berlin
Philippe Teisceira-Lessard,
Reporter, La Presse
Hosted by:
Agence France Press,
Berlin
Shara Tibken,
Senior Reporter, CNET
Hosted by: Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Munich
Vauhini Vara,
Freelancer, NewYorker.com
Cat Zakrzewski,
Venture Capital Reporter,
The Wall Street Journal
Hosted by: Die Welt, Berlin
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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:
TBA, 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,
Co-Founder and CEO, Looping Group
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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
MasterCard
Pew Charitable Trusts
Individual Contributions
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Sponsors in Germany
Allianz SE
Auswärtiges Amt
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
Deutsche Bank AG
Siemens AG
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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 on a transatlantic topic. Joint projects between journalists from different countries are encouraged, but individual projects will also be considered.
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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