Journalist-in-Residence
Offering our expertise to audiences beyond the scientific community is one of the Cluster’s objectives. One way of enhancing communication between research and the media in the broadest sense is our Journalist-in-Residence program.
The Journalist-in-Residence program will foster our cluster's relations with media outlets, think-tanks and policy-makers. Our Residents are invited to stay at the Cluster for six weeks to three months to enable them to pursue projects related to inequality. Journalists and practitioners from think tanks, non-governmental organisations or the political arena get the opportunity to deepen their expertise in this field through close interaction with our researchers.
Bettina Schön
As of May 2024, Bettina Schön is the Cluster’s new journalist-in-residence. During her diploma studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, she has worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ProSieben and Süddeutsche Zeitung, followed by a traineeship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).
At NDR, she worked as an editor and reporter in the domestic politics department (Panorama), as well as for Tagesschau, Tagesthemen and the foreign desk. She has managed the studios in Singapore, Beijing, and London, and reported from there for ARD.
From 2013, she was deputy editor-in-chief of ARD-Mittagsmagazin at Bayrischer Rundfunk. From 2017, she re-established the ARD-Mittagsmagazin department at rbb (Berlin). Her team is also responsible for the shows Brennpunkte, ARDextra, as well as election programs.
She also works on cross-media projects, such as the long-term documentary “Local Heroes” about the challenges that local politicians face. For this project, she received the awards Deutscher Fernsehpreis and Vielfalt der Demokratie, among others.
Bettina Schön is currently researching inequalities in healthcare.