Frederik Pleitgen is a Senior International Correspondent primarily based in Berlin.
Since becoming a member of the worldwide information community, Pleitgen has introduced a uniquely German perspective to NCS´s international viewers. Between 2006 and 2014, Pleitgen was NCS’s Berlin correspondent, delivering perception into the political, financial and cultural influences of this key European energy.
Pleitgen has been pivotal to NCS’s protection of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because it started, and in 2023 was part of the NCS crew which gained an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for reporting on this story.
He performed a number one function in NCS’s protection of the German Bundestags-Elections in each 2009 and 2013, whereas in 2014 he reported on the twenty fifth anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall, bringing his family’s expertise of the occasion to bear in his protection.
In addition, he extensively reported on the Syrian civil conflict, touring to Damascus, Homs, Aleppo and plenty of different locations within the conflict city nation. He was additionally the primary worldwide journalist to report from Damascus solely days after chemical weapons struck insurgent held areas in 2013 almost setting off U.S. navy intervention. Pleitgen was additionally readily available in Aleppo when the town fell again into the palms of Syrian authorities forces in late 2016.
In 2011, Pleitgen was a key reporter through the unrest within the Arab world, reporting from Egypt because the revolution that finally toppled the Mubarak authorities unfolded forming a part of the crew that gained an Emmy for its reside protection of the protests in Cairo, and one of many first journalists to get contained in the Libyan besieged metropolis of Misrata.
Pleitgen additionally travelled undercover to Myanmar, which was then dominated by a repressive Junta, a number of occasions to report on the aftermath of cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the flawed elections and launch of the professional-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in 2010.
Major tales that Pleitgen has lined through the years have included the Asian Tsunami in 2004, the loss of life of Pope John Paul II and subsequent election of the primary German pope, Cardinal Ratzinger, and now Pope Benedict XVI. Pleitgen, who’s fluent in German, English and French, reported from London through the July 2005 terrorist assaults and was dispatched to convey German audiences protection of the tragic aftermath of each Hurricane Wilma and Katrina within the U.S.
Prior to becoming a member of NCS, he labored within the political unit at German public service broadcaster ZDF, and had beforehand labored at non-public information broadcaster N-TV as a reporter and government producer. Pleitgen additionally has hung out working for RTL and TV Berlin.
Pleitgen studied North American Studies on the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and at Free University Berlin, the place he submitted his grasp’s thesis on traditions in American journalism. He additionally spent one yr finding out on the School of Journalism at New York University and in 2004 obtained a fellowship for the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in San Fernando Valley/USA. Pleitgen was additionally awarded with the 2005 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which he spent on the International Centre for Journalists in Atlanta, Georgia.