Jessica Zahedi (born 1 August 1978 in Heidelberg) is a German television presenter and journalist. [1]
Zahedi completed her Abitur at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Mainz and studied political science at the University of Hagen. Later she worked at Radio RPR, where she was a trainee. After collaborating on an online TV project of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and as a reporter, she participated in the launch of the youth wave bigFM in Rheinland-Pfalz. Finally, she went to Hamburg to work at Scholz & Friends in advertising. Then she returned to Mainz. Since 2006 she has worked at ZDF in the Today program. Zahedi has a child born in 2012. [2]
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