Frederik Pleitgen

Frederik Pleitgen
Frederik Pleitgen
Pleitgen in 2016
Born (1976-08-19) August 19, 1976 (age 48)
Cologne, West Germany
OccupationJournalist
EmployerCNN
FatherFritz Pleitgen

Frederik Pleitgen (born 19 August 1976,[1][2] in Cologne[3]) is a German journalist and correspondent for CNN International.[4]

Pleitgen studied North American studies at the University of Bonn and at Free University Berlin.[5] Pleitgen also spent one year studying at the School of Journalism at New York University. He worked for German television broadcasters ZDF and RTL as well as German news channel n-tv before joining CNN in 2006.[6][7] In Paris, he covered the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.[8][9]

Pleitgen lives in Berlin.[10]

He is the son of German journalist and former director of public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Fritz Pleitgen.[11]

  1. ^ ""Die Hardcore-Islamisten sind auf dem Vormarsch"". n-tv.de (in German). 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  2. ^ "One World with Zain Asher" (Transcript). CNN. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  3. ^ Phillips, Joseph (3 June 2022). "Frederik Pleitgen Ehefrau". GazetteBlaster. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  4. ^ Raabe, Mathias (17 January 2007). "Das Berliner Gesicht von CNN". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 6 November 2007.
  5. ^ "Frederik Pleitgen". Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Frederik Pleitgen". CNN.
  7. ^ "Frederik Pleitgen – Senior International Correspondent". CNN.
  8. ^ "See how the Hebdo suspects were taken down". CNN. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Two suspects still at large for Charlie Hebdo attack". CNN. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Frederik Pleitgen, Sohn des WDR-Intendanten Fritz Pleitgen, leitet das Hauptstadtbüro des US Senders: Das Berliner Gesicht von CNN". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 17 January 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Fritz Pleitgen ist tot: Lange Jahre WDR-Intendant". Der Spiegel (in German). 16 September 2022. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 25 July 2023.