Stephan Strothe was the US- correspondent for German news channel N24 as well as other affiliates of the

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media group.

Journalistic career

Stephan Strothe earned his

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studying law and political science at the

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. During his studies, he worked as a

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for the Hamburger Abendblatt and

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. Television career After graduation, Stephan Strothe was offered his first full-time job in the newsroom of ARD’s

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, which, in content and prestige, is comparable to ABC's

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during Ted Koppel’s tenure. In October 1984, Stephan Strothe left ARD to work for

’s first commercial TV network,

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, where he was head of the network's news department and was later named assistant

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. In 1988, Stephan Strothe opened

’s New York bureau, the first for a German commercial TV network. Since 1991, the bureau of N24 has been located only a few hundred yards away from the

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So, when Strothes goes on air, he's not sitting in front of a blue screen but actually has the real

situated in his back. The studio of N24 is connected to

through a

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cable, which allows for more immediate responses than via satellite. The N24 news team in Washington consists, in addition to Strothe, of a producer, an editor as well as a camera man. He retired as US-correspondent at the end of December 2016 and was replaced by Steffen Schwarzkopf on 1 May 2016. Documentaries and news specials Aside from covering the White House and reporting on hard news on a daily basis for N24, Stephan Strothe is a producer of documentaries and news specials on a wide variety of subjects - from the landing of the U.S. Marines in Haiti to the debate on gun control and the potential dangers of biological weapons in the hands of terrorists.

Teaching

In addition to his responsibilities in Washington, Stephan Strothe teaches journalism classes in Berlin at the University of Potsdam and at Washington's

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References

External links

Stephan Strothe's Homepage
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