Robin Alexander (journalist)

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Robin Alexander
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Born (1975-05-13) 13 May 1975 (age 49)
Essen, Germany

Robin Alexander (born 13 May 1975) is a German journalist and author. He reports mainly for the Die Welt group on the German Chancellery and the CDU/CSU parties.

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Life

Robin Alexander was born in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied history and journalism at the Leipzig University. From 1998 to 1999 he completed an internship at the Tageszeitung in Berlin, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 2001 to 2006. He was a columnist for the English-language city magazine Exberliner, [1] made reportage trips through southern Africa and was a guest editor at The Star in Johannesburg in 2004. [2] After one year of parental leave, he became founding editor of the German Vanity Fair in 2006.

Since 2008, Alexander has been writing for Die Welt und Welt am Sonntag , reporting on the German Chancellery since 2010 and accompanying Angela Merkel as rapporteur on international trips and summits. In 2013, he was a face of the Die Welt brand campaign. [3]

Robin Alexander is married, has three children and lives in Berlin.

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References

  1. staff, E. X. B. (31 May 2012). "Inside the X: Robin Alexander".
  2. tageszeitung, taz. die. "Archiv - taz.de". www.taz.de.
  3. "'Die Welt' bringt neue Motive zur Markenkampagne". new-business.de.