 In 1986 she began working as a freelance journalist for the magazine "Tempo" in Hamburg, the "Neue Ruhr Zeitung" in Essen and "S-F-Beat", a broadcast magazine for youths belonging to broadcast station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB).In May 1991, Niemeyer travelled on an Arthur-F.-Burns scholarship to the United States.She stayed four months at the WABI TV CBS branch in Bangor, Maine, and WUSF public radio station in Tampa, Florida.