GUEST:

Melissa Eddy – The New York Times

PRESENTER:

Jiffer Bourguignon – editor for Intereconomics at ZBW

THE TOPIC:

During her tenure in the German-speaking world, Melissa has covered every major story, from the resignation of Helmut Kohl to the rise of Angela Merkel and the AfD; Europe’s debt crisis; the Energiewende, the arrival of more than 1 million migrants in 2015. The past year, she has focused on the challenges of integration and the controversies surrounding the “fake news” and digitization.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Melissa Eddy is the Berlin Correspondent for The New York Times, a position she has held since January 2012. Before that, she covered Germany for The Associated Press, arriving in Frankfurt in 2000 and moving to Berlin in 2005.

Melissa launched her career in journalism at the AP’s Vienna bureau in 1997. She is a native of Minnesota and holds a Master of Science in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. in English and French from Bucknell University. She was named a 1996-7 Fulbright Fellow for Young Journalists in Germany. Since 2016 she has been a board member of the RIAS Berlin Commission.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Jiffer Bourguignon is an American and worked as an editorial assistant in SPIEGEL‚s Washington bureau.

Jiffer works as editor for Intereconomics at ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft and lives in Hamburg

COOPERATION:

The RIAS BERLIN COMMISSION is a binational organization for the promotion of German-American understanding in the field of broadcasting.

Enjoy an informative and thrilling talk!

Im Anschluss an die Veranstaltung ist ein gemeinsamer Ausklang mit interessanten Gesprächen und kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten geplant.

KOSTEN: Die Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist mit einem Kostenbeitrag von 38,00 EURO pro Person inklusive Buffet und Getränken verbunden.