Sylvia Cunningham is an Associate Editor and Reporter at 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, her stories ranging from 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.
More than 44,000 runners will participate in the 45th annual Berlin Marathon this Sunday, passing by iconic sites from start to finish. Of the tens of thousands of runners…
Actress Sophie Berner has performed the role of Sally Bowles in the musical “Cabaret,” she estimates, nearly 1,000 times. It has been 12 years since she landed the…
Berlin’s specialty coffee scene has grown significantly in the past decade, bringing with it the joys and growing pains of any burgeoning market. This year’s Berlin Coffee Festival brought some…
“Hallo!” can be a greeting – nice to meet you! “Hallooo?” can be a question – is anybody home? “HALLO?!” can be a demand for attention – are…
On Saturday, as hundreds of neo-Nazis marched through Berlin, thousands traveled to Spandau and Friedrichshain to counter-demonstrate. We spoke to counter-protestors about what brought them out.
In the final installment of KCRW Berlin Presents Berlin Lacht!, we speak with five out of the six members (Danny, Anne, Sebastian, Ben, and Vanessa) of Die Flugträumer, known…
Phil Zeidler first discovered beatboxing back in 1999 when a friend introduced him to the concept. Nearly 20 years later, he and the three other members of The Razzzones, a…
Photo by Ronnie McDonald A series of tweets this Sunday rocked the German sports world. Football player Mesut Özil, who was born in Germany but has Turkish roots, announced…
Photo by Abyssus In 2017, researchers at Stanford University released a paper that said their facial recognition algorithm, given a single facial image, was able to correctly distinguish a…
Photo by H-Stt There’s been continued fallout over comments made by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on 69 Afghan deportees. In a press conference last week, the Christian Social Union…
