On this week's Kaffeepause, Dr. Steven E. Sokol is joined by Matthias Deiß, Deputy Director of ARD’s Capital City Studio in Berlin and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of television.

In this capacity, he is a regular moderator of Bericht aus Berlin (Report from Berlin). From 2018 to 2021, he served as the Editorial Director for ARD’s political magazine Kontraste. Before this, he worked from 2012 to 2017 as a TV correspondent with ARD. Mr. Deiß has received numerous awards — including the Media Prize of the German Bundestag, the “Prix Europa,” and was named CNN’s Journalist of the Year in 2013. He studied Journalism and Political Science at the University of Munich and at the German School of Journalism in Munich. In 2008, he participated in the ACG's Young Leaders Conference.