Sylvia Cunningham is a reporter and associate editor at KCRW Berlin. She works on weekday News Briefs and is the host of The Bear on KCRW Berlin. She first joined the team in October 2017 as a grantee from the Fulbright Young Professional Journalist Program.
Before moving to Berlin, Sylvia worked in New York for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. She also contributed to NBCNews.com, covering topics such as the impact of Muhammad Ali’s death on the Louisville community, Michelle Obama’s final commencement speech as First Lady, and blood donation regulations in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida.
These true, personal stories were recorded live at The Bear on November 22 at ZENTRUM danziger50 in Prenzlauer Berg. The theme of the evening was paper: an ordinary object that can spark some pretty extraordinary memories.
Berlin’s central bus station is now predicted to cost nearly triple the amount originally expected to refurbish. In other news, demonstrators from real estate sector and housing industry gathered on Monday in Mitte to protest the proposed rent control legislation of the Red-Red-Green Senate.
DJ and producer Shed, aka René Pawlowitz, just released his fifth studio album on Ostgut Ton. “Oderbruch” is an ode to the region his family’s from in East Germany. He joined us in the studio to talk about the music, as well as his first experience in Berlin as the techno scene was igniting.
The conviction of Berlin gynecologist Dr. Bettina Gaber comes after part of Germany’s law on abortion was altered in February.
Germany’s Education Minister Anja Karliczek said a stagnant or negative development in the triennial survey is worrying.
The SPD duo Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans have called for a renegotiation of the coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU, something the Christian Democrats have rejected. In other news, another German museum has been burglarized in less than a week – this time the Stasi Museum in Lichtenberg.
These true, personal stories were recorded live at The Bear on November 1 at Pfefferberg Haus 13. The theme of the evening was eureka: stories of discovery.
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference on Monday in Madrid, the European Parliament passed two resolutions, declaring a climate emergency and calling on the EU to set more ambitious climate goals.
Berlin’s House of Representatives will likely vote on the rent control measures at the start of 2020.
Do you ask for your children’s permission before sharing pictures of them? The German Children’s Fund has launched a campaign that encourages parents to pause before they upload.
