In 2008, NPR  Worldwide and the American Academy in Berlin teamed up to create The Berlin Journal, a radio show featuring interviews with current Academy Fellows, distinguished visitors, and friends on a broad range of topics interviewed by American and German journalists.

The Berlin Journal, when scheduled, airs on 104,1 FM in our NPR Specials time slot Saturday at 19:00, and Monday at 08:00.

Past guests on the Berlin Journal have included:

• George Packer of The New Yorker on President Obama's Afghanistan policy
  
• Novelists Rivka Galchen, Adam Haslett, and Nathan Englander
  
• Artist Amy Sillman on painting, film, and making 'zines
  
• Art critic Hal Foster on the "bathetic, brutal, and banal" in modern art
  
• Art historian Benjamin Buchloch on the abstraction of Gerhard Richter
  
• Prize-winning journalists Anne Hull, Tamar Jacoby, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  
• Historians Joel Harrington, Charles Marsh, Leora Auslander, and Mary Sarotte
  
• Composers Daniel Visconti and Andrew Norman
  

The Berlin Journal radio show is hosted by R. Jay Magill Jr. at the American Academy in Berlin and is produced by Sara Richards at NPR in Washington, DC.

The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994 to foster greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany through its presence in Berlin, a city with which the United States shares unique cultural, political, and historical links.

The Academy, deemed by Der Spiegel  as “the most important place for American intellectual life outside of the United States," offers residential fellowships to both established and promising American scholars, writers, journalists, policymakers, and artists, encouraging them to pursue their work in a manner that fosters participation in the vibrant life of the German capital.