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

  • May 312004

    2004 Burns Awards--Award-Winning Burns Stories Focus on U.S. Presidential Elections

    Dr. Robin Mishra won the 2004 Arthur F. Burns Award for his diary of the 2004 U.S. presidential election campaign (“Mein Wahlkampf tagebuch”), which was published in almost 20 articles in the German weekly Rheinischer Merkur. Mishra supplemented his diary with editorials and portraits of presidential candidates George Bush and John Kerry for his German employer and his Burns host paper, the Chicago Tribune.

    Mishra received the 1,000-Euro prize from Germany’s foreign minister at the annual Burns alumni dinner and lecture on June 3 in Berlin.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • Jun 262003

    2003 Burns Awards--And the "Burnsie" GoesTo...

    by ICFJ Staff

    Steven Zeitchik's Fondly recalling the bad old days and Steffi Kammerer's Die Columbia ist sicher gelandet (Columbia has landed safely) were awarded the 2003 Arthur F. Burns Award.

    Program: 
    Arthur F. Burns Fellowship
  • May 312002

    2002 Burns Awards -- Award-Winning Burns Stories Focus on U.S. Presidential Elections

    Two Americans and one German took home the 2002 Arthur F. Burns Awards on May 23. Each year, the awards are given to Burns alumni for articles published the previous year. State Secretary Dr. Klaus Scharioth, representing the German Foreign Ministry, presided over the awards ceremony.

    The $1,000 awards went to Tagesspiegel editor Markus Feldenkirchen (2002) and U.S. journalists Guy Raz (1999), London correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), and James Hagengruber (2002), reporter for the Billings ( Mont.) Gazette.

    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.