Charlotte Potts

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Charlotte Potts (2018)

Charlotte Potts (born August 10, 1986 in Münster ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

Life

Charlotte Potts grew up in Lüdinghausen in the Münsterland. She studied modern and contemporary history, psychology and economics at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau , as well as journalism and politics at the American University in Washington, DC

Charlotte Potts completed her doctorate at the TU Chemnitz in 2016 . She wrote her dissertation on left and right populism in the USA. The book was published under the title “Protest in the Land of Unlimited Possibilities. Tea Party and Occupy in comparison. "

Career

From 2008 to 2015, Potts worked initially for ZDF and later for ARD as a producer in the broadcasters' studios in Washington, DC.In this role, she reported on the 2008 US presidential elections and 2012, among other things .

Since 2016 Charlotte Potts has been working as a political correspondent in the Deutsche Welle capital city studio in Berlin . There she reported, among other things, on the 2017 federal election , the subsequent coalition negotiations and the attack on Breitscheidplatz . Potts reports bilingually in German and English. Since January 2017, Potts has also been moderating the morning section of the ZDF morning magazine .

Private

Charlotte Potts is married and has one son.

Publications

  • Protest in the land of opportunity. Tea Party and Occupy in comparison , 2016, 429 pp., ISBN 978-3-8487-3364-4

Awards

  • "Medium Magazin" selected Potts among the top 30 journalists under 30 in Germany.
  • Potts chose “Newsroom.de” from “The 500” media makers.
  • For the US think tank Atlantic Council, Potts wrote a report on transatlantic relations from the perspective of the younger generation as one of 12 selected fellows.

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Potts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte Potts: Protest in the land of unlimited possibilities . Nomos, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-3364-4 , pp. 429 .
  2. ↑ https://www.nomos-shop.de/Potts-Protest-Land-unbegrenzten-M%C3%B6orbenen/productview.aspx?product=27909
  3. ↑ Bülend Ürük: "The 500": Charlotte Potts would like to meet Hillary Clinton for lunch in New York. April 4, 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://www.dw.com/en/charlotte-potts-and-fanny-facsar-at-the-afd-headquarters/av-40665690
  5. ↑ Press portal ZDF: Dr. Charlotte Potts. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Medium Magazin: Top 30 under 30. Accessed January 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bülend Ürük: "The 500": Charlotte Potts would like to meet Hillary Clinton for lunch in New York. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Potts, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster