Step Vaessen Biography
Step Vaessen is a Dutch broadcast journalist who presently works for Al Jazeera English as a Moscow reporter.
How old is Step Vaessen? – Age
Vaessen is of Dutch descent and was born in Simpelveld, Limburg, the Netherlands in 1965. She is 56 years as of 2021.
Where did Step Vaessen go to school? – Education
She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in Nijmegen before enrolling in the journalism postgraduate program in Tilburg. She was active in the Nijmegen squatter movement during her college years and worked on the squatter radio station Radio Rataplan.
Step Vaessen husband – Family
Vaessen keeps her family information private.
What is Vaessen Salary?
Vaessen’s salary is under review.
Vaessen Net Worth
Vaessen has a net worth ranging from $1-$7 million.
Vaessen Career
In 1994, she began working with the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) news-department. In 1996, she became the NOS South-East Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta. After a decade working NOS in Jakarta, she moved to Al Jazeera English in 2006. She witnessed first hand most of the major news events in Asia: the fall of president Soeharto in 1998, the violent aftermath of the referendum for independence in East Timor, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, the protests against Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama and major natural disasters in Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and numerous religious and ethnic conflicts. She covered stories in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Japan, and South Korea. She made several documentaries for 101 East: Indonesia’s killing fields about anti-communist massacres in 1965, Indonesia’s Rock governor about the rise of president Joko Widodo and a film for the Correspondent series: Trail of Murder, Indonesia’s bloody retreat from East Timor, which was nominated Best Documentary at the Asian TV Awards in Singapore. For Talk to Al Jazeera she did several interviews with Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo and Jakarta’s governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama. On Sunday, August 7, 2011, she was the third guest for the 2011 season on the television program Zomergasten on the VPRO. On June 20, 2012, she was the speaker at the Arondéus Lecture, to discuss the theme of intolerance in the Netherlands and attempts by politicians to limit free speech. Now based in Moscow, Step Vaessen previously reported on Asia for more than 20 years and was one of the most senior international journalists covering the region.
Publications
- Jihad’met sambal’, August 2011 (Prometheus: Amsterdam). (ISBN: 9044615378).