Anika Scott

Professional Experience

2001-present                                 Freelance Print/Online Journalist                             Germany

Craft feature and news feature articles on European travel, culture and history for a variety of publications and web sites, including International Living, Transitions Abroad, Travelwise, German Life, Expatica.com and EscapeArtist.com. Corporate work includes conceptual creation of web sites and editing for businesses such as Gabriel-Gold.com.

2001-present                                         Book Author

Co-wrote "Lost to the World" (Xlibris, 2003), a nonfiction search for the true history of a handwritten manuscript by Gustav Mahler that disappeared from a Jewish family during World War Two. The project involved extensive research in European archives, translations of German and Austrian sources, and a study in the Austrian legal system today and under the Nazis.

2007-present                                         Radio

Authored "Rosie's Legacy: a saga of the American auto industry," produced by Deutschlandfunk and ORF (Austrian National Radio) and broadcast in 2007 and 2008. This hour-long news feature told the tale of an African-American family whose fate has been tied with the Rouge auto plant outside Detroit since the 1920s.

March 2003-2004                                 Teacher

Developed and taught two block seminars in Journalism Praxis and Newspaper Reporting at the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany in 2003 and 2004. The seminars gave budding German journalists a glimpse into the techniques and philosophy behind American print journalism, with a focus on real world reporting, story structure and deadline writing.

1996-2000                                    Newspaper Journalist                  United States

1997-2000                                      Chicago Tribune                             Chicago, IL

Covered education, local government and crime as a staff writer producing hundreds of articles in an affluent suburb of Chicago. Page One stories included an investigation of a teacher accused of sexual abuse, a town fighting off a planned shopping center to preserve its way of life, and the marketing secrets of land developers.

1996-1997                                     Philadelphia Inquirer                        Philadelphia, PA

Covered life, crime and government in the Philadelphia suburbs. Page One stories included environmental danger at a former missile site, a bomb in a Tredyffrin shopping mall, and the growing trend of computer thefts destined for the "gray market."

1994-1995                                   Magazine Feature Writer               Lansing, MI

Lansing Metropolitan Woman magazine. Wrote and edited features on Michigan artists, politicians and women's health. Edited freelance copy.

Education

1995 - 1996                 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism     New York, NY

Master of Science in Journalism (May 1996) earned after an intensive program in spot news and feature writing, media law and ethics, and beat reporting work in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1991 - 1995                         Michigan State University                                     Lansing, MI

Bachelor of Arts Honors in International Politics (June 2005). Coursework included international economics, U.S. foreign policy and ethnic conflict in the Balkans. Was one of 8 American university students chosen for a NATO youth conference on foreign policy held in Aalborg, Denmark in 1994. Also interned at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. in 1994 in a bureau responsible for satellite communications.

Skills

English: Native language.
German: Fluent.
French: Good reading, basic conversation.
Audio reporting equipment: Stereo microphone, digital recording with flash card.