Frederik Pleitgen

Frederik Pleitgen (born 1976 in Cologne) is a German journalist.

Life

Frederik Pleitgen is the son of former WDR director Fritz Pleitgen. He studied North American Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Bonn and at the Free University of Berlin. He then spent a year at the School of Journalism at New York University and received a scholarship in 2004 for the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in the San Fernando Valley. 2005 Pleitgen received an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which he spent in Atlanta at the International Center for Journalists.

Pleitgen worked in ZDF Berlin office and RTL Berlin studio. From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a reporter for channel n-tv. He then moved to the U.S. broadcaster CNN. He reported from Iraq, in October 2010 in Pakistan and 2011 by the revolution in Egypt, and the civil wars in Libya and Syria.

Since May 2013, hosted alternately with Ilka Eßmüller RTL Nachtjournal.