Transatlantic Media Fellows

2012

Catalina Arévalo works in the environmental department of Agencia EFE, the leading Spanish language news agency and the fourth largest news agency in the world. Caty will pursue political, sociocultural, economic, and environmental topics while on her fellowship in the United States.

Cristina Lai Men is an award-winning senior reporter for TSF Rádio Noticias in Lisbon, Portugal. Cristina has worked for TSF Rádio Noticias, Portugal’s leading national news and current affairs radio station, since 1995, covering social, political, cultural, and foreign affairs. During her fellowship she will focus on social and political issues, including immigrants’ interest and involvement in politics, the social responses to unemployment and how it affects families, the elderly, retired, and Medicare.

2011

Susanna Baltscheffsky has been the environmental editor at Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s top national dailies, since 1995. While on her fellowship, she explored U.S. attitudes to climate change, renewable energy technologies, and nature conservation, and met with scientists engaged in environmental research.

Zhanna Bezpiatchuk is a reporter and junior editor at The Ukrainian Week in Kiev. She researched such topics as the U.S.-Eastern European partnership, energy efficiency and policy, e-government, and cultural organizations that promote the arts both inside and outside government.

Beata Biel is a journalist, documentarian, and TV producer based in Krakow, Poland. While on her fellowship, she researched the future of investigative reporting on U.S. television, the social influence of “eco-celebrities,” and views of contemporary Poland among Polish-American Jews.

Annabel Dillig is an editor and reporter at NEON, a Munich-based monthly magazine aimed at Germans aged between 20 and 35, with nearly one million readers. While in the United States, she explored economic and social issues including energy, higher education, obesity, the status of Native Americans, and the working poor.

Laura Dixon, a British reporter with The Times of London, investigated the changing relationship between the U.S. and its Latino inhabitants. While in the United States, she looked at border issues, including community relations, drug policy, and immigration.

Martin Kotynek is the environment editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany's leading daily newspapers, based in Munich. He is originally from Vienna, Austria. Martin is interested in hot button issues such as environmental sustainability, high-speed rail, green technology, investigative journalism, WikiLeaks, and the influence of satirical news programs.

Sonia Mancini is a Rome-based reporter at the private TV channel La7 Telecom Italia Media, Italy’s third major network. Sonia is also a reservist in the Italian army and has been a spokeswoman for the NATO Training Mission-Iraq. She focused on the management of crises and natural disasters in both the public and the private sectors.

Felix Zeltner, a freelance journalist based in Munich, researched the many ethnic influences on U.S. music for the Franco-German ARTE cultural TV channel. His reports can be found on the award-winning blog, Tonspur, which is German for soundtrack. While on his fellowship, he also covered subjects such as immigration, the future of the media, “green tourism,” and America’s economic problems for a number of leading German publications.

2010

Andreas Cervenka is a reporter and columnist with Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm, Sweden. While in the United States, Andreas studied the recession of 2008 and 2009 and explored the impact of new policies on the U.S. economy and the American way of life. He also investigated the relationship between the states and the federal government.

Mark Doyle is the editor of The World This Week at The Economist in London. Mark explored Americans’ attitudes to politics, including the economy and the recent health care bill. He also examined the effects of social networking on political parties and issues. Mr. Doyle is particularly interested in American politics and has taught American government at Oxford University.

Mette Dyrskjøt is a political reporter for Børsen, a financial newspaper based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mette writes about climate, energy, and environmental politics, as well as economics, research, and innovation. She has covered international climate summits in Bangkok, Bonn, Poznan, and Copenhagen. Mette researched Americans' views on energy security, climate change, and the environment.

Ann-Kathrin Eckardt came to CSIS as a reporter for Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading newspapers. She now works for NEON magazine. Ann-Kathrin studied politics in France and Italy and previously worked in Brussels. She has written extensively on politics, foreign affairs, and societal issues. While in the United States, Ann-Kathrin researched America's growing environmentalism, immigration, and the integration of new immigrants, as well as the U.S. health system.

Josef el Mahdi is a staff reporter for Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden's top daily newspapers, based in Stockholm. He examined issues such as immigration, the status of Arab-Americans in U.S. society, and new journalistic techniques such as crowd sourcing.

Johanna Petersson is a business reporter based at Dagens Nyheter in Stockholm. Johanna studied the effects of the federal stimulus package at the state level. She also be compared rural states with those dominated by large cities and examined the role of religion in U.S. society.

Christina Siganidou is senior editor of European and foreign affairs at ERT3 television in Thessaloníki, Greece. ERT3 is the largest regional channel in Greece and the only one that broadcasts nationally. Besides current affairs and foreign policy, Christina is interested in environmental, social, and consumer issues.

Dario Thuburn came to CSIS as a business reporter and editor with Agence France-Presse in Paris, France; he is now posted to Rome, Italy. Dario covered the effects of the economic crisis on ordinary Americans as well as unemployment, immigration, and health care. He also did research on the American tradition of local reporting.

2009

Tomasz Ulanowski is a Kraków-based science writer and editor for Gazeta Wyborcza, one of the most influential daily newspapers in Poland. He specializes in the environment and earth and space science. He has written on topics such as rising sea levels, warming temperatures in the Arctic, and reactions to climate change.

Michael Winiarski is a foreign correspondent for Sweden's Dagens Nyheter. Before his Transatlantic Media Fellowship, Michael was the newspaper’s Middle East correspondent. He is currently their Washington correspondent.

2008

Ina Krauss is a German radio journalist with a wide experience of broadcasting as a reporter and presenter. She works for Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, one of Germany's biggest public broadcasting organizations. She is particularly interested in social policy, immigration, American society in general, and U.S. politics.

Evita Neefs covers European affairs for the leading Belgian daily De Standaard, which she joined in 1981, working first on the domestic politics desk and then on the foreign desk. Before her current assignment, she was a foreign editor and a senior writer on international affairs. She has covered American politics from Belgium since 1996, both for her newspaper and as a radio commentator.