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.

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  • 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.