Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

The 2012 Arthur F. Burns Fellows

Each year 20 outstanding media professionals from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. The program offers 10 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.

U.S. applications were due on March 1, 2013.

German applications were due on February 1, 2013. German applicants should go to the IJP website for more information and to submit their application.

Our Stories

  • Jun 12010

    Burns Alumna Sarah Wildman Wins Weitz Prize

    by Maia Curtis

    Sarah Wildman (Burns 2008) won the Peter R. Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in reporting on Europe for a series she wrote for Slate. She conducted research for the series during her Burns fellowship. The $10,000 prize is awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and will be presented at an awards luncheon in July in Washington, D.C.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • Mar 12010

    Post-Copenhagen: Innovative Local Approaches to Climate Change

    by Nina Keck (1995)

    In January, a month after the world climate summit in Denmark, a diverse group of nearly 50 journalists, experts and entrepreneurs traveled to Berlin, Hamburg and Copenhagen to discuss climate change, energy and their global economic impact. Most of them were alumni of transatlantic exchange programs like those sponsored by the Bosch Foundation, the Rias Berlin Commission, the German Marshall Fund and Fulbright Commission. Four were Burns alumni.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • Feb 242010

    Burns Alumni Gather for 2010 Dinner in New York

    by Moira Herbst (2009)

    A crowd of about 100 alumni, trustees, staff and friends gathered for the annual Arthur F. Burns Fellowship alumni dinner at the Ritz Carlton in New York on February 23. They battled a fierce rainstorm to hear keynote speaker E. Gerald Corrigan, a managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and chairman of the firm’s regulated bank subsidiary.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • Sep 122009

    To Oslo For Peace

    by Anthony Ganzer

    Anthony Ganzer recalls his experience in Oslo as a guest journalist through a Robert Bosch Stiftung fellowship, and provides his own story after witnessing President Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ganzer was also tasked with explaining to locals why Obama deserved such a prestigious award. He notes that, while engaged in wars at home, Obama used his speech to justify the use of force in the pursuit of peace.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • Jul 212009

    Nineteen Young Foreign Correspondents From U.S. and Germany Selected As 2009 Burns Fellows

    by Dawn Arteaga, Communications Director

    Washington, DC - Nineteen select young journalists from the United States and Germany will spend the summer working as foreign correspondents on either side of the Atlantic as 2009 Arthur F. Burns Fellows. This is the 20th year for U.S. journalists to report in Germany under this program.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

Blogs

  • Apr 292013

    U.S.-German Exchange Cultivates the Next Generation of Foreign Correspondents

    by Irene Moskowitz

    Twenty reporters from prestigious media outlets across the U.S. and Germany are the newest participants in an influential exchange program for young journalists, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship.

    Many of this year’s U.S. participants come from leading radio stations across the country. Also represented are Washington news website Politico, VICE Media, and The Washington Times. Their German colleagues hail from top news organizations such as N24 TV, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel newspapers.

    The Fellows will come to Washington, D.C.