TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – A correspondent for a German TV network is learning about local journalism from the largest news organization in East Texas.
Tom Garus of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), an affiliate of the internationally respected ARD network, just completed a week embedded in the KLTV newsroom in Tyler. Based in Berlin, he serves as reporter and moderator for multiple news programs on Germany’s largest public broadcaster.
Garus is in the United States as part of an exchange program for American and German broadcasters. Since 1994, the RIAS Berlin Commission has organized and sponsored fellowships for more than 1,200 journalists.
RIAS was the acronym for Radio in American Sector, a U.S.-funded station that broadcast information and music across East and West Germany during the Cold War, first via radio and later as a TV network, before it was shut down after German…
