Jessika West

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Jessika West, 2015

Jessika Westen (born March 7, 1980 in Wuppertal ) is a German journalist , television presenter and writer .

Career

Jessika Westen already worked as an author for the Remscheider General-Anzeiger during her school days . From 2000 to 2002 she completed an editorial traineeship at NBC GIGA and the German TV News Agency (DFA). At NBC GIGA, she moderated the Netbeat section (computer and internet news , science and technology) on NBC Europe from May 2000 and gained her first experience in front of the camera.

From 2002 to 2006 she studied journalism and politics in Dortmund and graduated with honors. Your thesis with the title Retiree TV? Public broadcasters are losing more and more young viewers. Root cause research and solution strategies. was published in 2007 as a book by VDM Verlag .

During her studies she worked, among other things, as a speech and moderation trainer at the University of Dortmund , as a freelance editor for the apm media agency and as a freelance writer for WDR radio. During a stay abroad in London , she completed an internship at the BBC in 2004 .

During her studies in 2003, she completed reporter training for deployment in war and crisis areas with the German Armed Forces . She later took part in the advanced course on Journalists in Crisis Regions and, in 2013, in the advanced training course at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Amok, Accidents, Disasters - Dealing with Journalism .

After completing her studies, she initially worked as an editor for the Sat.1 regional magazine 17:30 - live! active.

In August 2007 she switched to WDR television , where she became a reporter and author. From 2008 she worked as a live reporter for WDR local time from Duisburg , from 2009 also for national WDR broadcasts ( current hour and WDR current ) and from 2011 also for the ARD morning magazine .

Jessika Westen has been a presenter at the news channel n-tv since January 2017 and continues to work as a reporter and author for WDR television.

In addition to her television work in front of and behind the camera, she regularly moderates events.

Awards

Jessika Westen was at the Duisburg Love Parade for WDR in 2010 and reported on the disaster. For her “outstanding performance” as a live reporter, she was honored on May 7, 2011 at the award ceremony of the Axel Springer Prize .

Book publication

On June 25, 2020, 10 years after the events in Duisburg, her book DANCE OR DIE: The Love Parade Catastrophe. A novel. published by Emons Verlag . In collaboration with relatives, victims, eyewitnesses and first aiders, Jessika Westen traces the course of the tragedy in her debut as a writer and describes the events from three narrative perspectives.

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Private life

Jessika Westen is married and lives with her husband in Wuppertal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessika Westen - Vita. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jessika Westen - GIGAPedia. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Retired TV? [VDM Verlag Dr. Müller: First edition] . ( book-info.com [accessed May 15, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Jessika Westen - Vita / further education. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
  5. ^ WDR - Freelancers: Jessika Westen. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ DWDL.de: n-tv hires two new moderators. December 15, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Outstanding Achievement - Television - Prize Winners - 2011 - Archive - Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 9, 2017 ; accessed on May 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axel-springer-preis.de
personal data
SURNAME West, Jessica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal