About Frederik Pleitgen
After attending school (including the German International School in Washington, D.C.), he studied North American Studies at the University of Bonn and the Free University of Berlin. He then spent a year at the School of Journalism at New York University and in 2004 received a fellowship at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in the San Fernando Valley. In 2005, Pleitgen received an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which he spent at the International Center for Journalists in Atlanta. He worked for German television broadcasters ZDF and RTL as well as German news channel n-tv from 2000 before joining CNN in 2006. He reported from Iraq, from Pakistan in October 2010, from the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the civil wars in Libya and Syria. He filled in for Christiane Amanpour as host of the CNN program Amanpour. In Paris, he covered the aftermath of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting...
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Frederik Pleitgen is known for Senior Correspondent for CNN International, known for in-depth reporting on global events.
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Frederik Pleitgen was born in 1976.
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Frederik Pleitgen's nationality is German.
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