Marcel Machill, a McCloy Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Dissertation Prize from Dortmund University in Germany for his Ph.D. thesis on French and European media policy.

Before coming to the Kennedy School, Machill worked as a consultant for the European NewsChanel "Euronews" in Lyons, France, as a journalist for the German Public Service Broadcasting (WDR) in Cologne, and as a lecturer in media policy and European journalism at the Institute of Journalism at Dortmund University.

Machill is the author of France: Realm of Quotas: National Media Policy and European Media Communication Policy in the Context of National Identity (published by Vistas, Berlin), which was based on his Ph.D. thesis, and the author of Journalistic Culture: A Framework for International Comparative Research (published by Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, Germany).

At the Kennedy School Machill is pursuing a Master in Public Administration (M.P.A.), focusing on international politics and economics.

The McCloy Scholars Program, begun in 1983 sponsors eight German students in the two-year M.P.A. program. Modeled after the Rhodes Scholarships, the program trains scholars in public management and policy analysis and promotes ties between U.S. and Germany. The program is named in honor of John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany.