Bettina Lüscher

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Bettina Lüscher (* 1962 ) is a German journalist and presenter . She is the main spokesperson for the United Nations World Food Program in New York City .

Life

After graduating from school, Bettina Lüscher worked parallel to her political studies in Münster from 1981 to 1983 as a freelance reporter for the Münstersche Zeitung and WDR radio. A Fulbright scholarship enabled her to collect first TV experience in campus stations as they at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a Master of Arts (MA) between 1983 and 1985 in Political Science graduated. An internship at CNN followed .

In 1984 she finally got a permanent job as a video journalist at CNN Headline News in Atlanta , followed in 1985 by a transfer to the then new CNN studio in Frankfurt am Main , from where she witnessed the Second Gulf War in 1990 as a reporter . In 1991 she was presenter at West 3 Aktuell and co-presenter of the current hour on WDR television before switching back to CNN. In Atlanta, she moderated CNN World News from 1992 to 1998 as the only German presenter at the time , reaching 180 million households worldwide, and occasionally moderated other programs such as American Edition . In March 1998, Bettina Lüscher returned to Germany and co-moderated the program CNN This Morning from the n-tv studio in Berlin . In February 2001 she became the official Germany correspondent for CNN and office manager in Berlin.

After working for CNN for 15 years, Bettina Lüscher joined the United Nations World Food Program in 2004 , first in Berlin , then as the main spokesperson for North America in New York .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UN World Food Program Speaker Coming to Madison international.wisc.edu, accessed on April 14, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ The CNN's international ancor Bettina Lüscher ... in: Bettina Fetzer (ed.): Political Discourse in the Media , John Benjamin Publishing, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-9027254030 , pp. 83f., 299f.
  3. ↑ Bettina Lüscher is the only German to moderate the news on CNN International , on mopo.de, on April 3, 1997. Retrieved on April 13, 2018
  4. ↑ Modern Life: Schlaflos in Atlanta , on focus.de, from September 25, 1995. Retrieved on April 13, 2018
  5. ↑ "CNN This Morning": No early TV from Berlin , on Tagesspiegel, from March 6, 2001. Retrieved on April 13, 2018
  6. ↑ WFP Chief Spokesperson, North America wfp.org, accessed April 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ Chief Spokesperson for North America of the World Food Program ithaca.edu, accessed April 14, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Lüscher, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962