Ellen Ehni

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Ellen Ehni
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Ehni in 2017
Born1973 (age 5051)
NationalityGerman
OccupationJournalist

Ellen Ehni (born 1973 in Heidelberg) is a German journalist. At Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) she heads the programme group for business and law.

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Life and career

Ehni studied German and French law at the University of Cologne, University of Paris and Humboldt University in Berlin, where she passed her legal state examination. After an internship at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), she worked there as a journalist. She was an editor at NDR aktuell and reporter for the news programmes Tagesschau and Tagesthemen. [1]

Ehni joined the WDR in 2004 as editor of the programme group "Economy and Law" and worked for the programmes Markt, Plusminus and ARD Ratgeber Recht. She also hosted the last-mentioned as well as, as representative, the ARD-Morgenmagazin. In 2007, she moved to the ARD studio in Paris for five years as an ARD correspondent. She has been in charge of the programme group Economy and Law since 2012. She continues to work as a presenter, among other things for the DeutschlandTrend in the Tagesthemen and for editions of the ARD Brennpunkt as well as the programme Plusminus. [1] From 2018 on she has also been talk show host for the WDR sunday miday show Presseclub (in turn with two others). [2]

On September 1, 2018, Ellen Ehni took over as editor-in-chief of the television department and head of the programme area Politics and Current Affairs of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 WDR (2016-07-11), Ellen Ehni - Leiterin Programmgruppe Wirtschaft und Recht (in German), retrieved 2017-05-07
  2. "Presseclub Diskussionssendung zum politischen Thema der Woche". .wdr.de. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  3. "Nachfolgerin für Sonia Mikich: Ellen Ehni wird neue WDR-Chefredakteurin Fernsehen". Meedia. 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-10-05.