Frederik Pleitgen Biography
Frederik Pleitgen is a journalist from Germany working as the Senior International Correspondent based in CNN’s London bureau. Since joining the international news network, Pleitgen has introduced a special German viewpoint to CNN’s global audience. Between 2006 and 2014, Pleitgen was CNN’s Berlin correspondent, offering insight into the political, economic, and cultural forces of this central European power.
How old is Frederik Pleitgen? – Age
The CNN correspondent is 45 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1976 in Cologne, Germany.
Frederik Pleitgen Family – Parents
He is the son of Gerda Lichtenberg and Fritz Pleitgen, a German journalist and former head of the West German Broadcasting Corporation.
Frederik Pleitgen Wife
He is not maried and has not revealed if he is dating or not.
Frederik Pleitgen CNN – Career
He played a pivotal role in CNN’s coverage of the German Bundestag elections in both 2009 and 2013, while in 2014 he commented on the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, bringing his own family’s perspective of the incident to bear in his coverage.
He also reported widely on the ongoing conflict in Syria, heading to Damasco, Homs, Aleppo and several other locations in the war town country. He was also the first foreign journalist to write from Damasco just days after chemical weapons entered rebel zones at the start of US military action in 2013. Pleitgen was also on hand in Aleppo when the city dropped back into the control of Syrian government forces at the end of 2016. In 2011, Pleitgen was a key correspondent during the Arab world uprising, reporting from Egypt that the revolt that finally overthrew Mubarak’s government erupted as part of the Emmy-winning team for its live coverage of the Cairo demonstrations, and one of the first journalists to travel into Libya’s besieged city of Misrata.
Pleitgen has traveled undercover to Myanmar, which was then governed by a brutal junta, multiple times to report on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the flawed elections and release of pro-democracy protester Aung San Suu Kyi in 2010.
Fred also regularly hosts CNN International’s flagship program Amanpour, stands for Christiane Amanpour, and interviews with numerous global leaders and other international newsmakers. The big stories that Pleitgen has covered over the years include the Asian Tsunami in 2004, the death of Pope John Paul II and the eventual inauguration of the first German pope, Cardinal Ratzinger, and now Pope Benedict XVI. Pleitgen, fluent in German, English and French, reported the terrorist attacks in London in July 2005 and was sent to put the German audiences to their notice.
Prior to joining CNN, he worked in the political unit of the German public service broadcaster ZDF and formerly worked as a reporter and executive producer for the private news broadcaster N-TV. Pleitgen also spent time writing for RTL and TV Berlin. Pleitgen studied North American Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and the Free University of Berlin, where he delivered his master’s thesis on American journalism practices. He also spent one year studying at the School of Journalism at New York University, and in 2004 received a fellowship at the Centre for Cultural Diplomacy in San Fernando Valley, USA. Pleitgen was also awarded the 2005 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which he spent at the International Center for Journalists in Atlanta, Georgia.
Frederik Pleitgen Net Worth
Pleitgen’s actual net worth is not known. However, most of what he owns is from his career as a journalist.