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Sylvia Cunningham

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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.

 
Tech & Science Thursday

How will you be affected by the GDPR? We asked Spiegel Online Tech Editor Angela Gruber what to expect

Tech & Science Thursday

    Over the past month, it’s possible you may have noticed an influx of emails from companies wanting you to confirm your newsletter subscription. Or maybe you’ve had to…

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May 24, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Tech & Science Thursday

“It’s never too late”: Tactical Tech’s Cade Diehm on detoxing your digital life

Tech & Science Thursday

    When you’re on Facebook, are there photos you’d rather not be tagged in or do you see ads that seem eerily tailored to you? Are you such a…

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May 17, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Profiles

New parade route and plan to tackle overcrowding at upcoming Karneval der Kulturen

Profiles

    It’s that time of year again: Karneval der Kulturen, or the Carnival of Cultures will take place from May 18 to May 21. The four-day festival in Kreuzberg…

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May 15, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Profiles

Berlin’s “Denk Mal Am Ort” revisits homes where Holocaust victims once lived

Profiles

    Last weekend private residences across Berlin opened their doors as part of “Denk Mal Am Ort” – which roughly translates to “Memorial at a Place” or “Think on…

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May 9, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Taste

Not your average grocery store: SirPlus fights food waste by selling past the “best-before” date

Taste

    Ever eaten something past its package date? At SirPlus, a small grocery store in Wilmersdorf, this is a way of life. The store sells food past its “best-before”…

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May 1, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Taste

Mother-daughter duo, Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman and Sonya Gropman, share family recipes and insight into a rarely explored cuisine in ‘The German-Jewish Cookbook’

Taste

    Growing up just outside of Boston, Sonya Gropman remembers visits to both sets of her grandparents and good food – lots of it. On her dad’s eastern European-Jewish…

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April 24, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Profiles

Berlin-based writers’ collective ‘Daughters and Sons of Gastarbeiters’ takes aim at stereotypes of migrants in Germany

Profiles

Part 1: Introduction to Daughters and Sons of Gastarbeiters   Part 2: How it all began   Ok-Hee Jeong, Zoran Terzić and Çiçek Bacik were all brought to Germany as children…

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April 4, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Profiles

At March For Our Lives in Berlin, students and teachers bring fight for gun control to U.S. Embassy’s doorstep

Profiles

  The Never Again movement, started by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, has touched people far beyond the borders of the United States. On…

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March 27, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Profiles

Highlights from the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games with Editor-in-Chief of Der Tagesspiegel’s Paralympics Zeitung

Profiles

  This year’s 2018 Winter Paralympic Games were the biggest yet, bringing together 567 athletes from 48 countries plus the Neutral Paralympic Athlete delegation. Ronja Ringelstein, journalist and editor-in-chief of…

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March 15, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham
 
Amplified

Cultural historian Josh Kun researches music and migration in Berlin this spring, asking ‘what music can do to us, and what music can do for us’

Amplified

  Culture historian and 2016 MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Josh Kun says although there’s no “magic science” to figuring out a city, there are at least three types of places…

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March 10, 2018 By Sylvia Cunningham

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