Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program Alumni Newsletter
December 2013 | Volume 22, No. 4
Feature Story
Frankly Speaking
How the iPhone 5s Saved My Holbrooke Fellowship
By David Francis (Burns 2009)
O
ne of the most important elements of a successful reporting
trip is luck. Most times, events
outside of a reporter’s control shape
the way the story comes together.
News breaks, forcing projects to
change quickly. Being in the right place
at the right time can make or break
a trip. Fortunately, during my time as
the Richard Holbrooke Journalist-inResidence at the European Council on
Foreign Relations, all of these factors
broke in my direction. This made my
reporting more successful than I could
have hoped.
David, his fixer Charlie, and Charlie’s nephew,
who live near Mathare.
During the first few weeks of my trip,
however, this was far from the case. I arrived in Europe in early September with
the intention of reporting on U.S./E.U. anti-terrorism cooperation, the growing
cyber threat from Russia and Eastern Europe, and terrorism in North Africa.
But early on, I found it hard to focus on anything but the German election, which
took place on September 22. The same was true for my editors back in the
States, who demanded coverage of an election that many expect to shape the
future of the euro zone. Much of my first two weeks in Europe was consumed
with pre-election coverage and analysis of what Merkel’s win would mean for
the European Union. This coverage produced a number of good stories, but was
tangential to my project.
After the elections, I was able to turn my full attention to my project. I spoke with
officials both in and outside of the German government about Berlin’s cooperation with its European and NATO allies on intelligence collection and anti-terrorism policies. Despite Germany’s success in preventPlease join
ing a series of terror attacks before they happened,
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no one was willing to give specifics on how Germany
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collects intelligence. In the United States—especially
on Facebook to
since Edward Snowden began leaking information
get all the latest Burns
on the National Security Agency—it’s difficult to find
Fellowship news!
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Dear Alumni,
Another year is winding down. The
26th class of fellows has returned
home, and for the first time, the
group included one Canadian. This
exchange was a great success and
will be continued from now on.
As usual, we are already looking
forward to 2014 since applications
for the next class will arrive soon
and the new fellows selected in
early spring. We encourage you
to make sure that your colleagues
and friends know about this
fellowship and that they apply if
interested.
The annual Burns Dinner in New
York will be held on March 3rd, with
Jill Abramson, executive editor of
The New York Times, as our guest
of honor and speaker. The event is
open to all alumni and we hope to
see many of you there. The Burns
Dinner in Berlin will most likely
take place on June 4. Please save
these dates!
We will continue to award
Holbrooke Research Grants
throughout 2014, with a maximum
grant of 4000 euros to conduct
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The Arthur F. Burns Board
German Trustees (2010-2013)
Patron: The Honorable John B. Emerson, U.S. Ambassador to
Germany
Dr. Thomas Bellut, Director-General, ZDF
Erik Bettermann, Director-General, Deutsche Welle
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege, Former Ambassador
Dr. Martin Blessing, CEO, Commerzbank AG
Prof. Maria Böhmer, State Minister, Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU
Tom Buhrow, Director-General, WDR TV
Sabine Christiansen, Journalist, TV21 Media
Dr. Mathias Döpfner, CEO, Axel Springer AG
Thomas Ellerbeck, Chairman, Vodafone Foundation
Leonhard F. Fischer, Partner, RHJI Swiss Management
U.S. Trustees (2013-2016)
Patron: The Honorable Dr. Peter Ammon, German Ambassador to the United States
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists Elisabeth Bumiller, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief,
The New York Times
Albert Behler, President and CEO, Paramount Group, Inc.
Ambassador (ret.) J.D. Bindenagel, Senior Advisor,
Strategy XXI Partners
Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Editor in Chief, The Wall Street
Journal
Marcus W. Brauchli, Vice President, The Washington Post
Company (Chairman)
Ambassador (ret.) Richard Burt, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates
(Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Martin Bussmann, Managing Director, Mannheim Holdings LLC
Nikhil Deogun, Managing Editor, CNBC
David W. Detjen, Partner, Alston & Bird, LLP
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel, CFO, BASF SE; Chairman and CEO,
BASF Corporation
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Dr. Rüdiger Frohn, Chairman, Stiftung Mercator
Emilio Galli-Zugaro, Head Group Communications, Allianz Group
Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck, Former Member of the Board, Deutsche
Bank AG (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Luc Jochimsen, Member of Parliament, Die Linke
Michael Georg Link, State Minister, Foreign Office, Member of
Parliament, FDP
Rob Meines, Meines & Partners, The Hague
Kerstin Müller, Former State Minister, Member of Parliament,
Buendnis 90/Die Grünen
Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Former Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel
Rainer Neske, Board Member, Deutsche Bank (Chairman)
Dagmar Reim, Director General, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Helmut Schäfer, Former State Minister, Foreign Office
(Honorary Chairman)
Monika Schaller, Senior Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Steffen Seibert, Government Spokesman
Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier, Former Foreign Minister,
Chair of the SPD Parliamentary Group
Tobias Trevisan, CEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Lord George Weidenfeld, Former CEO, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
John Fraser, Master and Chair of Corporation, Massey College,
Toronto
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, Internationale Journalisten
Programme, e.V. (President)
Professor Dr. Ronald Frohne, President and CEO, GWFF USA, Inc.
James F. Hoge, Jr., Senior Advisor, Teneo Intelligence
(Honorary Chairman)
Ambassador (ret.) Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel,
WilmerHale, Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the
Treasury
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman,
Kissinger Associates, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Christian Lange, President and CEO, Ell Capital Management Inc.
The Honorable Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State,
Global Affairs (Honorary Chairman) Richard G. Lugar, President, The Lugar Center, Former United
States Senator
Daniel Mahler, Partner and Head of Americas, A.T. Kearney
Kati Marton, Journalist and Author
Michael Oreskes, Senior Managing Director, The Associated Press
Wolfgang Pordzik, Executive Vice President, Corporate Public
Policy, Deutsche Post DHL
John F. W. Rogers, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Calvin Sims, President and CEO, International House
Garrick Utley, Senior Fellow, Levin Institute, SUNY Stanford S. Warshawsky, Chairman, Bismarck Capital, LLC
(Vice Chairman)
Ludwig Willisch, President and CEO, BMW of North America, LLC
Legal Advisor: Phillip C. Zane, Attorney at Law, GeyerGorey, LLP
1988
A Burns contingent
(pictured at right) at
Bayerischer Rundfunk interviewed the
new U.S. Ambassador
to Germany John B.
Emerson in September.
Alumni Stefan Maier
and Nicole Hirsch
(Burns 2006) participated in the meeting,
along with 2013 Fellow
Maddy Mahon.
1991
Alan Noblitt has struggled with severe epilepsy for several years now that affected his ability to work. Although
epilepsy cannot be cured, Alan had brain surgery in 2011
that has managed to control the seizures. He is doing much
better now and is very grateful to the “amazing” Mayo Clinic
where the procedure was done. In an effort to capitalize on
the page layout and QuarkXPress talents honed in those
years, he also earned an associate’s
degree in graphic design at his local
technical college.
1996
Thomas Atkins is now the chief
banking correspondent for Reuters
in Germany, leading a team of six
reporters who cover insurers, funds,
capital markets, corporate finance
and banks. Previously, Tom spent
three years as a journalism trainer
at Reuters, teaching the trade to
Reuters reporters.
been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold
1.2 million copies. Following a short break after returning
from D.C., Gregor Peter Schmitz started his new position
as the Spiegel correspondent in Brussels, covering NATO
and the European Union.
2000
After the departure of fellow alumnus Nikolaus Blome
(Burns 1993), Stephan Haselberger is now one of two
bureau chiefs of the daily Bild’s parliamentary bureau in
Berlin.
2002
Petra Krimphove returned to Germany from D.C. and will
again work as a freelance journalist out of Berlin.
2003
In addition to his full-time job at Die Welt, Clemens Wergin
is now also a contributing opinion writer for the International
New York Times.
2006
Tobias Jaecker successfully defended his PhD thesis on
anti-Americanism in the German
media this year and was awarded a
doctoral degree in philosophy from
the Free University of Berlin. His
book will be published in February
2014 by Campus Verlag (Frankfurt/
New York). Its title will be Hass, Neid,
Wahn: Antiamerikanismus in den
deutschen Medien.
2008
Susanne Amann was promoted
to deputy head of the economics
section at the weekly Der Spiegel.
Richard David Precht winning the national TV award
Tony Ganzer completed work for
for his talk show “Precht” on ZDF.
1997
his master of arts in International
Rebecca R. Bibbs has her own
Relations and World Order from the
company, Logan Hendricks Media
University of Leicester in fall 2013.
Services, through which she work for several publications.
He and his family moved back to the United States after his
She is a writer for the Oak Leaves, a Chicago Sun-Times
employer of the past three years, World Radio Switzerland,
newspaper in Oak Park, IL; the Herald Bulletin in Anderson, was privatized. Before leaving,
Ind.; and the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper and Indiana his work earned five RTDNA
Minority Business Magazine, where she is also associate
regional Murrow awards, as well
editor. Cherno Jobatey left the television network ZDF and as second place in radio reporting
became the publisher for the German edition of Huffingfrom the Religion Newswriters
ton Post, the joint venture news portal between Arianna
Association. Mario Kaiser was
Huffington and Tomorrow Focus. He is based in Munich.
awarded the Kurt Tucholsky
Richard David Precht was awarded the national television Award for literary journalism in
award in a special category for his philosophical talk show
October. Deborah Kolben is the
Fabian Löhe’s new baby
“Precht” on ZDF. He holds an honorary professorship in
editor of Kveller.com. She lives in
girl Jonna Kassandra
philosophy from the University of Lüneburg and the Hanns
Brooklyn with her husband and
Eisler College of Music in Berlin. He has published seven
two children. Fabian Löhe and his wife Kerrin welcomed
books. Wer bin ich? was first published in 2007 and has
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FELLOWSHIP
“The fellowship was ultimately a truly amazing experience for me—even the frustrations with work, etc, taught me valuable things and helped me think about my home work environment in a different light. I was also given the opportunity
to do a lot more reporting then I have in my day-to-day producer role, and that experience has certainly benefitted me
back at MPR after my return. Already, in the month I’ve been back, I’ve been given more chances to report my own
pieces and am in talks about transitioning into a full-time reporter spot—a chance I wouldn’t have had without Burns.”
­—Madelyn Mahon, Assistant Producer, Minnesota Public Radio, Saint Paul, MN; Hosted by: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
“I also took a few personal lessons from this program: that preparation is key, that a successful fellowship starts weeks before you actually land in Germany by researching, networking and knowing what you want to cover once you get there. I learned that patience
pays off, that things do work out in the end. I learned that I love Germany and am inspired
by the country and the people and that I can live, write and be happy anywhere in the
world. So Burns, thank you for a chance to grow as a journalist and as a human being and
spend a tough but awesome summer outside of my comfort zone! It changed me.”
­ Ana Ward, Multimedia Producer, Voice of America, Washington, D.C.; Hosted by: ZDF
—
Finanzredaktion, Mainz
“Even though I couldn’t produce my own stories for KGW [due to union restrictions], my two months there as a Burns fellow were a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. Originally I didn’t even want to go to Portland. CNN in Atlanta
and KPIX in San Francisco were on the top of my wish list, KGW was only
number three. A mistake I realize in hindsight. Because Portland is an
interesting city full of creative minds. ‘A difficult place to make a living, but a
wonderful place to make art’—is how Portlanders often describe their city…
The rent is cheap and life is affordable. One can best describe Portland as
‘weird,’ but in the most positive sense. The city is different and Portlanders
are proud of that.”
IMPRESSIONS
Ana Ward sightseeing
“From the beginning, I learned that colleagues at CBC ultimately make the same radio as we do. Why should they
do it any differently? This enabled me to rather quickly join their discussions and contribute story ideas. And luckily
Angela Friedrich interviewing
­—Angela Friedrich, Reporter, N24 (TV), Berlin; Hosted by: KGW, Portland, OR
I started out with a show that had some interest in German topics. ‘As It Happens,’ which runs daily on Radio One,
has been entrenched for decades at CBC… We covered the Veggie Day during the Green Party election campaign
and talked to a speaker for the young Liberals who protested against it. The start of the so-called ‘organ donor trials’ was a topic we covered, as was a summer story from Bavaria with the headline ‘Bavarian mayor hunts snapper
turtle.’ The show was custom-made for me. I helped find the right interview partners in Germany who could speak
fluent English. We had to make an exception for the Bavarian mayor though.”
—Jens Christof, Deputy Head Radio, MDR Thüringen, Weimar; Hosted by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto
Amanda Peacher reporting
“Part of the Burns experience is getting to know German
newsrooms and understanding how German reporters
work. Obviously, I wasn’t going to get this exposure since
I was working independently. So I arranged many coffee/
lunch dates with alumni in Berlin. The first couple of
weeks I met with different alumni every other day. These
interactions were crucial to my reporting process. Alumni
provided me feedback about my story ideas, contacts for
sources, and context for some of the complex issues I
was reporting. Without them, I would have wasted a lot of
time… I can’t stress enough how helpful the Burns alumni
were to me as an independent reporter. ”
­ Amanda Peacher, Public Insight Journalist, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR; Hosted
—
by: NPR, Berlin
“The sale of the newspaper would inform and shape my entire stay as a fellow with The Washington Post.
Suddenly my host media had become the topic of the news. And I was able to observe how proud editors coped
with this situation. Especially impressive was the intention of my colleagues to cover the story openly and indepth…
Already on the eve of the sale, I was able to help the business section with their lead story by translating parts
of an interview that Bezos gave to a German daily about the future of media only a couple of months ago. And
that night, I wrote a first-hand report about the historic event that ran on Spiegel Online.”
­—Jan Friedmann, Reporter, Der Spiegel, Hamburg; Hosted by: The Washington Post
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“As the first Canadian to take part in the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, I hope that I have paved the way for a long
and fruitful exchange of journalists from my part of North America and Germany. My fellowship was a wonderful
experience, giving me precisely the kind of opportunity for professional development and personal growth that I
craved a decade into my career and five years into my current position as theatre critic at The Globe and Mail. I
know dozens of colleagues at my newspaper and elsewhere, in Toronto and across the country, who would benefit
from participating in the future. I plan to be an ambassador for the program going forward here in Canada.”
­—J. Kelly Nestruck, Theatre Critic, The Globe and Mail, Toronto; Hosted by: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Berlin
“As I stood in front of the house with 20 bullet holes, watching TV crews interviewing neighbors and listening to the
increasingly loud voice of an editor at the Miami Herald on my cell phone (who wanted to know why the relatives of the
fatally shot 12-year-old girl didn’t want to talk to me), I briefly wondered if I was in a bad movie. The initial excitement about going out
onto the street to quickly report brought on the realization of what
had happened at that place: a child was dead.
But there was no time for brooding. The news desk was understaffed that day. I was the sole reporter responsible for this story,
which would be in the paper the next day: Shooting, murder, tears—
everyday life in Miami, but uncharted territory for me. An email with
the address of the father of the shot girl would later help me get the
story onto page one.”
Max Holscher and Jeff Kleinman at the Miami Herald
— Maximilian Holscher, Junior Editor, Hessisch/Niedersächsische
Allgemeine, Kassel; Hosted by: Miami Herald
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Feature Story, continued from p. 1
Feature Story, continued from p. 6
a city on Kenya’s eastern coast. He had been in the group
since he was recruited as a young boy, and transported
messages between Nairobi. I met a young man called
Hassam who said he had escaped an al Shabaab camp
in Somalia. He was covered in scars from what he said
were repeated beatings at the hands of al Shabaab leaders. I met a third member, Abdu, who served as a recruiter
in Eastleigh, one of the largest slums in Africa. He, like the
others, was scared for his life. Navy Seals had just raided
an al Shabaab camp in Somalia, and there were rumors
that Kenyan security forces, backed by Israeli and U.S.
intelligence, were headed into the slums. He changed his
SIM card five times in the two hours I met with him.
someone connected to the intelligence community who
would stay silent on how and why the Americans have
created a vast surveillance network that captures data on
people all over the world. In Germany, however, I ran into
a wall every time I asked for specifics on how the Germans
snoop and how they have stopped so many attacks.
Then the iPhone 5s was released—which, on the surface, had nothing to do with my project—and everything
changed.
The firm that discovered vulnerability with the new phones’
fingerprint security system is located in Berlin. Security Research
Labs, a security research and
consulting think tank, has an office
in Prenzlauer Berg. I contacted
them, met one of their staffers for a
beer, and was invited to spend an
afternoon interviewing the hackers
who worked there while watching
them work.
Peeking behind the digital curtain
was terrifying. Within a few hours,
Westgate Mall, Kenya
I knew that every piece of information I have online is more vulnerable than I could have ever believed. The lab employs
hackers from around the world, giving the office a very
international feel. Each one of them could be making millions in the “black hat” cyber world, according to the lab’s
founder Karsten Nohl. But he said many of them don’t want
the stress of being a criminal. I suspect they do just fine
working as consultants to Fortune 500 companies around
the world.
Arthur F. Burns Newsletter | December 2013 | Page 6
The hackers at the lab also revealed a trove of information
on how the German government collaborates with the NSA,
and the extent of internal surveillance done by German
authorities. They also said that they were not surprised that
the United States was targeting German politicians, including Merkel. Details on this will be published in a forthcoming feature.
I also visited a cohort of black hat hackers in Prague. Prior
to my trip, I had been corresponding with a 19-year old
hacker who calls himself Chris Illusion. He and a group of
friends—all young and scattered around the world—break
into servers for fun. They share coding tricks via Skype.
I’ve interviewed a number of them, and this reporting will be
included in my cyber feature.
I also ran into complications with my reporting on al Qaeda
in North Africa. My original plan was to travel to Algeria
to report on al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. However,
after months of haggling with the
Algerian embassy, they refused
to give me a visa. I considered
traveling to Turkey or Morocco, but
the al Qaeda presence in both of
those countries is small and well
contained. I considered traveling to
Libya, but again had visa issues.
Two weeks into my trip, I was
considering simply going to the
southern coast of Spain or France
to interview refugees. Then the
Westgate Mall attacks in Kenya
happened, with the al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab taking responsibility
for killing nearly 70 people. Kenya is a rare African country
where visas can be purchased at the airport. A few days
later, I booked a flight.
During my time in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, my fixer introduced me to several members of al Shabaab. One young
man named Jamal was an al Shabaab courier in Mombasa,
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I also met three women who were members of the group.
All said they joined because of their husbands, who they
said were off fighting in Somalia. They also were living in
fear and trying to distance themselves from the organization. But they all knew that authorities likely knew their
affiliation with the group; my fixer had to make secretive
arrangements to meet them in Eastleigh and another slum,
Mathare.
All of the members I met had similar stories, and corroborated details about how the group recruits, operates and is
financed. I’m currently working on both a print and television feature based on what I’ve found.
My time at the European Council on Foreign Relations was
also fruitful. I’m working on a feature about the future of
Europe, given all that has changed during the euro crisis.
Working out of the only think tank in Berlin that focuses on
pan-European issues made reporting that story an easy
task. I expect this piece to be published in January.
David Francis is a freelance journalist based in Chapel Hill,
NC, and Washington, D.C. His work has been published
in Foreign Policy, The Christian Science Monitor, and The
Atlantic, among other publications. He spent his Burns Fellowship at the Financial Times Deutschland in Berlin.
Fellowship Impressions
(continued from p. 5)
“From a professional standpoint, the fellowship helped
me prove to my home newspaper, and to myself, that I
can cover politics and foreign news. Since I graduated
from college, I have been a business reporter, but the
opportunity to cover the German elections gave me a
chance to prove myself in another beat. This will come
in handy as I’m based in Washington, D.C., and there is
plenty of political news to write about here.”
—Tim Devaney, National Reporter, The Washington Times,
Washington, D.C.; Hosted by: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
“As a reporter
who covers
national politics
and campaigns
for POLITICO,
I focused my
pitches—for both
Spiegel and my
at Oktoberfest
Emily, Sheila, and Amanda
home media—
on the German elections. It was also a great time to be
covering Germany for a U.S. news outlet, with the anger
there over the NSA surveillance scandal and the possibility
of an attack on Syria in August, and I ultimately was able
to write far more for POLITICO than I’d expected. I think
that helped even out my workload—at times, it felt like I
didn’t have much to do at Spiegel, so it was nice to have
home-outlet stories to fill my time.”
—Emily Schultheis, National Political Reporter, POLITICO,
Arlington, VA; Hosted by: Spiegel Online International, Berlin
I hope you enjoy the colder months ahead and I wish you
a peaceful holiday season and a cheerful and happy new
year, full of health and new inspirations. Stay in touch and
see you again in 2014!
“I didn’t want to go to America, I wanted to go to New
York. ‘Don’t do that!’ I was told; ‘Go to Texas, Illinois,
Kansas!’ I don’t regret it,
New York is the best city
in the world, especially in
the summer... New York
is a city full of freaks; each
square meter has as many
stories as entire states.
New York is America in a
Amrai, Jannis, and Fabian in
microcosm. I even think
Atlantic City, N.J.
New York is the better
All the best,
Frank
— Amrai Coen, Freelancer, Die Zeit, Hamburg; Hosted by:
VICE, Brooklyn, NY
Frankly Speaking, continued from p. 1
transatlantic research projects not financed by your home
media. The board is also considering continuing the
Holbrooke Journalist-in-Residence grants, which allow you
to spend a longer period in the other country to do thorough
research into a larger media project. Please contact us with
questions if you are thinking about applying for either grant.
America.”
Arthur F. Burns Newsletter | December 2013 | Page 7
Sponsors
The Arthur F. Burns Board of Trustees in the United
States and Germany acknowledges with gratitude the
support of the following organizations and individuals who
have made the 2013 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship program
possible.
Sponsors in the U.S.
Alston & Bird, LLP
BASF
BMW Group USA
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Comcast NBCUniversal
Deutsche Post DHL Americas
EII Capital Management, Inc.
The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation/Institute of International Education
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
GWFF USA, Inc.
The Ladenburg Foundation
Paramount Group, Inc.
Individual Contributions
Elizabeth Becker
The Hon. J.D. Bindenagel
John and Gina Despres
David Detjen
Thomas Eisenmann-Schubert
The Hon. Frank E. Loy
Hermann-Hinrich Reemtsma
Dr. Guenter and Elsbeth Roesner
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Sponsors in Germany
Allianz SE
Auswärtiges Amt.
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren,
Frauen und Jugend
Deutsche Bank AG
European Recovery Program (ERP),
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Siemens AG
Vibro Beteiligungs GmbH
2014 Fellowships
Application Deadlines:
German Applicants: February 1, 2014
U.S./Canadian Applicants: March 1, 2014
Arthur F. Burns Newsletter | December 2013 | Page 8
Alumni News, continued from p. 3
their first baby girl Jonna
Kassandra on September 18.
Sarah Wildman had a second
baby girl this summer (Hana
Dorothy Wildman Halpern)
and is finishing up the book
she started as a Holbrooke
Research Fellow last year. If all Sarah Wildman’s new baby girl,
goes well, it will be released by Hana Dorothy
Riverhead/Penguin publishing
company in the fall of 2014. Based in Berlin, the Czech
Republic and Vienna, it follows the story of the woman her
grandfather left behind when he fled Vienna in 1938.
2009
Roman Kessler now works as a senior consultant for strategic communications for FTI Consulting. He is still based
in Frankfurt.
2011
After freelancing for a year, Anne Raith joined the European and foreign news section of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne
in October. She focuses on transatlantic affairs.
2012
Tetiana Anderson is now living in Washington, D.C., and
working as a producer for Al Hurra.
The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Newsletter is published four
times a year by the International Center for Journalists.
Burns Program Staff:
Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, IJP
Emily Schult, Program Manager, ICFJ
Leigh Burke, Fundraising Consultant
Maia Curtis, Consultant
Jill Gallagher, Layout/Design
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 German–U.S./Canadian 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.
The program offers young print and broadcast journalists from
Germany, the United States and Canada the opportunity to
share professional expertise with their colleagues across the
Atlantic while working as “foreign correspondents” for their
hometown news organizations.
The Burns Fellowship program is administered jointly by: