Julia-Niharika Sen

Julia-Niharika Sen (born April 28, 1967 in Kiel ) is a German journalist and television presenter .

life and career

Julia-Niharika Sen has been hosting the Hamburg Journal , the daily main news broadcast for Hamburg , on NDR television since January 18, 2010 . The program provides information about public happenings, political events as well as cultural and social life in the metropolis. Since 2009, the journalist has also been presenting weekly reports from ARD foreign correspondents on current world events in the NDR foreign magazine Weltbilder .

After studying English and Romance studies , Julia-Niharika Sen worked as a television journalist and filmmaker for various editorial offices on NDR television. As a film writer, she also reported from abroad, including on child labor in India . In 2006 she took over the moderation of the Hamburg culture and reportage magazine Rund um den Michel on NDR television. After she acted as a moderator at tagesschau24 in January 2018 , she has been a permanent member of the Tagesschau-Nachrichten moderation team since April 2018 . Since April 14, 2018, she also speaks the Tagesschau . Sen presented the night magazine for the first time in July 2018 .

As a reporter, she worked for various programs, including a. as a live reporter for the business, political, social and cultural departments of the Hamburg Journal and for the NDR reporter documentary series Naturnah . Since 2009 she has hosted the annual live broadcast of Trooping the Color from London on ARD alongside Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert in the ARD program “In honor of the Queen”.

Since 2011 she has moderated the Hamburg Press Ball at the Hotel Atlantic, where the Erich Klabunde Prize is awarded to outstanding journalists every year. Since 2009 she has been leading the annual presentation of the “Bertini Prize” (named after the novel by Ralph Giordano), which is awarded for moral courage and against forgetting the crimes of the National Socialists.

Her father, Tapan-Kumar Sen, comes from India ( Bengal ). He came to Germany in 1965. He is committed to cultural exchange and is on the board of the Indo-German Society (DIG) in Hamburg.

Julia-Niharika Sen has two children and lives in Hamburg. She is co-founder of the association "Freundeskreis Tara for Children eV", which supports severely disadvantaged women and children in India in local aid and school projects.