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Arthur F. Burns FELLOWSHIP NEWS Arthur F. Burns FELLOWSHIP NEWS A Publication for Burns Fellows, Alumni and Friends Winter 2003-2004 • Vol. III, No. 2 franklyspeaking Dear Friends, What a busy year it was for all of us in journalism: a war to cover, economic setbacks around the world, European expansion and small improvements in transatlantic relations, as well as many other events that captured our attention this year. But 2004 promises to be just as exciting with upcoming elections in Europe and the United States. A new group of Burns fellows will have the unique opportunity to cover these events, and I encourage you all to promote and distribute the new application forms so that we have plenty of qualified candidates to choose from. In this newsletter you also will find excerpts of how Burns Fellows at Airlie (see caption on p. 5) the 2003 fellows fared in their respective host countries during a beautiful summer on both sides of Melting the ice the Atlantic. Once again, the Burns spirit was carried As Burns fellows meet, German-U.S. relations thaw on by the 20 fellows who tried to make the best of By Waltraud Kaserer their two to three months in their host countries and at their host media. The Arthur F. Burns Dinner and Lecture last May in Berlin offered a way for hen the 2003 Burns fellows sions in Washington. I got an up-to- fellows and alums to get together, and a W met in Washington, D.C., at date look into various topics, not only transatlantic alum conference in Washington in the end of July, the ice be- into transatlantic relations but also into November was another chance to reconnect (see tween German Chancellor Gerhard economic, defense and domestic is- article on p. 9). Schröder and U.S. President George W. sues. New ideas for stories to write Bush was beginning to melt. Over the emerged for my upcoming attachment In 2004, we will hold the first Arthur F. Burns past year, the strained relationship be- at The Washington Times. Dinner and Lecture in the United States on Feb. 18. tween the two leaders, the long U.N. Many of the experts we met talked For many years, this dinner has been the prime discussions about a joint strategy for about how deep the rift is between the occasion for German alums to get together and now Iraq and the disappointment in not find- United States and Europe, more spe- U.S. alums will have this opportunity. So, please join ing a common goal were becoming mat- cifically “Old Europe.” It became clear us in New York that evening high above Wall Street ters of the past. that German-U.S. relations would never with Trustee and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry In July, these top-level disagreements be the same as they once were. These Kissinger as speaker. I look forward to seeing many were discussed again when a new group experts also showed us how much we of the U.S. Burns alums in New York and many of of Burns fellows met with Washington need each other, not only because of the German alums on May 7, once again, in Berlin. politicians and policy experts. the economic interdependence the two The orientation week was a perfect oc- countries have, but also because we With my best wishes for a happy new year, casion to catch up with current discus- share the same values. Both sides will Frank-Dieter Freiling continued on page 4 At right: Charles Lane, The Below: Stanford Warshawsky of Arnhold Washington Post; Phillip Zane, & S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. and Morgan, Lewis and Bockius; and Frank Loy, former Under Secretary of Robert Kimmitt, AOL Time Warner, State for Global Affairs Inc. Above: His Excellency and Mrs. Wolfgang Ischinger, Andrew Cohen (ICFJ) and Stanford At left: Robert Kimmitt and Warshawsky Klaus-Peter Gottwald, Deputy Chief of Mission, German Embassy The Arthur F. Burns Board Patrons/Schirmherren His Excellency Wolfgang Ischinger The Honorable Daniel Coats German Ambassador to the U.S. Ambassador to the United States of America Federal Republic of Germany Trustees David Anable, President, International Center for Journalists • Elizabeth Becker, Correspondent, The New York Times • Daniel B. Brewster, Jr., President & CEO, Gruner+Jahr USA Publishing • Richard Burt, Chairman, Diligence • Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, Internationale Journalisten-Programme • Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Chairman, Worldwide Associates • James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor, Foreign Affairs • Fred Kempe, Editor & Assoc. Publisher, The Wall Street Journal- Europe • Craig Kennedy, President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States • Robert M. Kimmitt, Exec. Vice President, Global & Strategic Policy, AOL Time Warner Inc. • Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates • George A. Krimsky, Media Consultant • Charles Lane, Staff Writer, The Washington Post • Fred H. Langhammer, President & CEO, Estée Lauder •Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs • Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief, Time Inc. • John E. Rielly, Visiting Scholar, Sidley Austin, Brown & Wood • Donald R. Shanor, Cabot Professor Emeritus, Columbia University • Howard A. Tyner, Vice President/Editorial, Tribune Publishing Co. • Garrick Utley, Contributor, CNN • Stanford S. Warshawsky, Co-President, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. Legal Advisor: Phillip C. Zane, Attorney at Law, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. ★ Bela Anda, government spokesman and Head of the Federal Press Office • Erik Bettermann, Director-General, Deutsche Welle • Reinhard Bettzuege, Ambassador • Klaus Bresser, former Editor-in-Chief, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) • Sabine Christiansen, Journalist/Anchor Woman • Alexander Dibelius, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. • Mathias Döpfner, CEO, Axel-Springer AG • Michel Friedman, TV-Moderator • Emilio Galli-Zugaro, Head Group Communications, Allianz Group • Michael Gerdts, Department Head, Foreign Office • Tessen von Heydebreck, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank AG • Albrecht Graf Kalnein, Head of Programming, Zeit-Stiftung • Hans-Werner Kilz, Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung • Heide Knake-Werner, Senator for the State of Berlin • Kerstin Müller, Deputy Foreign Minister, Foreign Office • Friedbert Pflüger, Member of Parliament, Christlich Demokratische Union (CDU) • Jürgen Richter, Former CEO, Bertelsmann-Springer • Markus Schächter, Director-General, ZDF German TV • Helmut Schäfer, former Deputy Foreign Minister • Frank Schirrmacher, Publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • Gesine Schwan, President, University Viadrina • Friede Springer, Publisher • Franz Thönnes, Member of Parliament, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) • Ludger Vollmer, Member of Parliament, Green Party • Ewald Walgenbach, Member of the Board, Bertelsmann AG • Guido Westerwelle, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP). 2 Alumni NEWS 1989 Susanne Betz-Berckenhagen became the mother of her third child, Harriet, in September. 1998 1992 Drew Leifheit, based in Budapest with the PR agency KPMG, is Marie-Agnes Heine left her job as an U.N. affiliate in Geneva and teaching an evening course on “American Radio” at the Budapest moved back to Wiesbaden with daughter Yara. Elisabeth Niejahr Communication College. was awarded a 2004 German Marshall Fund Fellowship. Her Alisa Roth,a book on German politics was re-released in paperback, and she is freelance journal- working on a new book on aging in Western societies. ist in Berlin, 2002 Burns moved back to Award winner 1993 New York. Jim Marc Fest created myHerald.com, a faster and easier way to read Hagengruber The Miami Herald online. The project was a joint venture between 1999 with his company, Quickbrowse.com, and The Miami Herald’s publish- Along with Ambassador ing company. Since 2002, Fest also has served on the Miami Roth, Hugh Wolfgang Ischinger Advisory Committee of the Knight Foundation. Stefan Menzel is Eakin and Steve deputy editor for companies and markets at Handelsblatt in Kettmann also ended Cologne. Since August 2002, Anke Plättner has worked as their time as freelance jour- parliamentary correspondent for Phoenix, the German live-event nalists in Berlin and moved back to New York. Elisabeth channel in Berlin. Pongratz became a mother of two daughters: Johanna Maria Elfriede and Therese Anna Margarete. Robert Zeithammel had 1995 a new daughter, Clara. In addition to his regular du- ties at television’s Pre- 2000 miere, Stephan Heather Greenfield introduced her son Toren Nicholas, born Millies is the edi- June 21, to Burns fellows and alumni at the reception in July, where tor in chief of TV she was assured that the five-week-old was the youngest visitor Kofler, a new ever at the ambassador’s residence. Toren also joined Heather at Munich-based the alumni conference in Washington in early November (see page bi-weekly TV 9). She said it was the only way for her to attend the conference, and magazine. An- Toren was fast asleep throughout the keynote speaker’s address. drea Witt joined the German 2001 Marshall Fund as Sabine am Orde became a proud mother of Antonia in May, and program officer at its she is taking a leave of absence at Tageszeitung until April 2004. Berlin office after fin- Susanna Ray joined Dow Jones at the Frankfurt office. Anar ishing her dissertation at Virji left her job as associate producer for “People in the News” at Humboldt University. Frank Loy and 2002 alum Hans Nichols CNN in June to study for a master’s degree in International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1996 London. After six years at the Reuters office in Frankfurt, Thomas Atkins and his family moved to Geneva to cover European private banking, 2002 the U.N. and WTO for the wire service. Matthias Lambrecht Adrian Feuerbacher now works as a capital correspondent for now works as a reporter for Financial Times Deutschland in NDR in Berlin. Jim Hagengruber moved from Billings, Mont., to Hamburg. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where he recently accepted a job as the North Idaho correspondent for the Spokane Spokesman-Review 1997 newspaper.
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