Back From Berlin
I wrote a number of stories in Berlin, chief among them those featured in my "Letter From Berlin" column on CBSNews.com. A few of my favorites were the story on the German dubbing industry, which concerned the men and women who provide the voices of famous actors in movies but don't get much in the way of professional respect; the one on German reggae band Seeed, which successfully weds the German language to Jamaican beats and is absolutely huge in their home country; the tale of Chris Owens, a professional basketball player who came to Berlin 70 years after his great uncle Jesse's inspiring Olympic performance served as a rebuke to Hitler; and the piece on the challenges facing ambitious young people grappling with Berlin's poor economy and seductive nightlife. I also wrote for the New York Times, for whom I detailed a steroids bust in Europe, and have a number of Berlin-related stories in various other outlets that will be published in the coming weeks and months.
But enough of that: I'm now once again focused on Public Eye. I can't say I'm not already missing Berlin, but I'm looking forward to surveying how the landscape has changed since I left at the end of July. I think I heard something about changes at the Evening News…