Tom Buhrow (born 29 September 1958, in

Troisdorf Troisdorf () is a city in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Troisdorf is located approximately 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn. Division of the city Troisdorf consi ...

) is a German journalist who has been serving as intendant of the WDR since 2013.

Early life and education

Buhrow studied history and political science in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

Career

Careeer in journalism

In 1978, Buhrow worked at the local newspaper ''Bonner

General-Anzeiger The ''General-Anzeiger'' is a regional daily newspaper based in the city of Bonn, the former West German capital in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The paper was first published in April 1888. In addition to the city and it ...

''. In 1985, he was trained at the largest television station in

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

, 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''. 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 Claus-Detlev Walter Kleber (born 2 September 1955 in Reutlingen) is a German journalist and former lawyer. He anchored ''heute-journal'', an evening news program on ZDF, one of Germany's two major public TV stations. He is also known for his e ...

as chief of the ARD bureau in Washington; Kleber went to

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

as the anchorman for the news programme ''

heute-journal ''heute-journal'' (roughly ''Today's Journal'') is a television news magazine broadcast on ZDF, a national German television network. History The programme premiered on 2 January 1978 as a late weekday evening 20 minute program. Originally, ...

''. On 1 September 2006, Buhrow replaced

Ulrich Wickert Ulrich Wickert (born 2 December 1942) is a German journalist. He is one of the best-known broadcasters in Germany. Early life Born in Tokyo, Japan, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris as a result of his father Erwin Wickert being employe ...

as the host of the news programme

Tagesthemen ''Tagesthemen'' is one of Germany's main daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Ingo Zamperoni. Second only to the 20:00 ''Tagesschau'' ("Review of the Day") ''Tagesthemen'' ("Issues of the Day") is ARD's most ...

. He published a book about his years in the United States, ''Mein Amerika, Dein Amerika'' (''My America, your America'').

Intendant of WDR, 2013–present

On 29 May 2013 Buhrow was elected intendant of the

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the conso ...

(WDR).

Other activities

* Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), Member of the Board of Trustees * Civis Media Foundation, member of the board of trustees (since 2013) * International Journalists' Programmes (IJP), member of the board of trustees * German Coordinating-Council for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Organizations, member of the board of trustees *

Kunststiftung NRW Kunststiftung NRW (''Art Foundation NRW'') is a foundation created by the government of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It was established on September 12, 1989, and started operations in the spring of 1990. It is based in Düsseldorf ...

, member of the board of trustees * German Cancer Foundation, member of the board of trustees

Personal life

Buhrow was married to his colleague

Sabine Stamer The Sabines (; lat, Sabini; it, Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic peoples, Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Aniene, Anio before the founding of Ro ...

, but divorced in April 2020. They have two daughters.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buhrow, Tom 1958 births Living people People from Troisdorf German television reporters and correspondents German male journalists German broadcast news analysts 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists ARD (broadcaster) people Westdeutscher Rundfunk people German television news anchors