Industry Professionals

Today, more than ever, what's happening overseas has an impact not just in the United States, but in your region and community. Whether the news comes from Asia, Africa, Europe, or the Middle East, it impacts us here at home. Regardless of market size, today's journalist needs to understand and be able to communicate global issues to their audience.

As Europe's largest country, Germany is a major player in the evolutionary changes going on across the continent. With internal political shifts and external realities such as the enlargement of both NATO and the European Union, understanding Germany and Europe is more relevant today than in years. Diplomatically, Germany has sought to lead Europe on many issues, and has even sent peacekeeping forces abroad as part of recent multi-lateral efforts.

And with Berlin restored as the capital of Germany, journalists, politicians and social leaders are drawn to this cosmopolitan magnet. Germany's reach into American business is felt in many communities throughout the United States, creating even more connections between our countries, particularly in the automotive, technological and pharmaceutical sectors.

The RTDNF is proud to partner with RIAS on fellowship programs in Germany for electronic news gatherers working in the United States. There are two standard fellowship programs a year open to all electronic journalists and a select number of recent journalism school graduates, a bi-annual program for news managers, and numerous opportunities for program alumni and friends of the program to "host" a visiting German RIAS fellow in their American newsroom each spring and fall.

RIAS conducts an annual Awards program that recognizes top radio, television, and online reporting. The application deadline closes on January 15 each year for reports that aired the previous year.