Transatlantic Media Fellows

2010

Ann-Kathrin Eckardt is a reporter for Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading newspapers, who has studied politics in France and Italy and worked in Brussels. She has written extensively on politics, foreign affairs, and societal issues. While in the United States, Mrs. Eckardt plans to research America's growing environmentalism, immigration and the integration of new immigrants, surrogate mothers, and 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 will be examining issues including immigration, the status of Arab-Americans in U.S. society, and new journalistic techniques such as “crowd sourcing.”

Stefano Valentino is an Italian journalist working for Free Reporter in Brussels, who is investigating new models for cooperation among U.S. and European journalists on local aspects of global stories. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for travel and research in the United States.

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. He is currently the newspaper’s Middle East correspondent and has traveled widely in the region, including Iran. He will become the newspaper’s Washington correspondent in January, 2010.

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.