AFPC-USA Speaks with 2024 Professional Excellence Awardee Benjamin Daniel from Germany

Benjamin Daniel is an award-winning journalist from Germany. Since 2021 he has worked as North and Central America correspondent for ZDF German Television in Washington, D.C. His area of coverage alternates between the White House, State Department, Congress, and Pentagon as well as news coming from Canada, the Caribbean as well as Central America.

Among other roles, he has had prior to his position as US-based correspondent, Benjamin had worked as a war and crisis reporter around the world. In this role, he reported live from Gaza, Israel, the West Bank, Pakistan or from ISIL’s battle for Mosul in Iraq, for example. To date, Benjamin has reported from more than 40 countries for ZDF.

Benjamin is the recipient of multiple German Television Awards and was nominated three times for the renowned Axel Springer Award. He received scholarships from the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Johanna-Quandt-Foundation and is a fellow of the RIAS Berlin Commission as well as of the Next Einstein Forum – Africa’s Global Forum of Science.

AFPC-USA will award Benjamin a Professional Excellence prize at this year's Foreign Press Awards, which will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on December 4.

This interview was conducted by Alan Herrera, who oversees AFPC-USA's editorial operations.