Tom Buhrow
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | Journalist |
Tom Buhrow (born 29 September 1958, in Troisdorf) is a German journalist[1] and intendant of the WDR.
Career[]
Buhrow studied history and political science in Bonn. In 1978, he worked at the local newspaper Bonner General-Anzeiger. In 1985, he was trained at the largest television station in North Rhine-Westphalia, WDR. Since 1986 he was the editor, reporter and bureau chief of the shows Aktuelle Stunde and West 3 Aktuell. He then worked as an editor and reporter at the most-seen German nightly news, the Tagesschau.[1]
In 1992/1993, Buhrow became the correspondent of the ARD bureau in Washington D.C. in the midst of the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
Between January 2000 and 2002, Buhrow worked as a correspondent at the ARD bureau in Paris. On 1 July 2002, he took over from Claus Kleber as chief of the ARD bureau in Washington; Kleber went to ZDF as the anchorman for the news programme Heute Journal.
On 1 September 2006, he replaced Ulrich Wickert as the host of the news programme Tagesthemen.[1] He published a book about his years in the United States, Mein Amerika, Dein Amerika (My America, your America).
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On 29 May 2013 Tom Buhrow was elected intendant of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).
Other activities[]
- Civis Media Foundation, member of the board of trustees (since 2013)[2]
- International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP), member of the board of trustees[3]
- German Coordinating-Council for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Organizations, member of the board of trustees
- Kunststiftung NRW, member of the board of trustees[4]
- German Cancer Foundation, member of the board of trustees[5]
Personal life[]
Buhrow was married to his colleague , but divorced in April 2020. They have two daughters.[6]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Raschke, Michael (30 November 2005). "Bush can not dampen his love of America" (in German). General-Anzeiger. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ^ Board of Trustees: Tom Buhrow Civis Media Foundation.
- ^ Board of Trustees (2016-2019) Archived 2016-10-03 at the Wayback Machine International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP).
- ^ Board of Trustees Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf.
- ^ Board of Trustees German Cancer Foundation, Berlin.
- ^ "Ehe-Aus bei Tom Buhrow!". BILD. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
External links[]
- Tom Buhrow at IMDb
- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from Troisdorf
- German television journalists
- German reporters and correspondents
- German male journalists
- German journalists
- German broadcast news analysts
- 20th-century German journalists
- 21st-century German journalists
- ARD (broadcaster) people
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk people
- German television news anchors