Tom Buhrow is a German journalist.

Career

Buhrow studied history and political science in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

. In 1978, he worked at the local newspaper Bonner General-Anzeiger. In 1985, he volunteered at the largest television station in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, WDR. Since 1986 he was the editor, reporter and bureau chief of the shows Aktuelle Stunde and West 3 Aktuell. After that he worked as an editor and reporter at the most-seen German nightly news, the Tagesschau

Tagesschau

Tagesschau is a German national and international television news service produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk on behalf of the German public-service television network ARD.The main edition of the programme is aired at 8 o'clock p.m. on Das Erste...

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In 1992/1993, Buhrow became the correspondent of the ARD

ARD (broadcaster)

ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...

 bureau in Washington D.C. in the midst of the Presidential Elections 1992

United States presidential election, 1992

The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George Bush; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot....

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Since January 2000, he worked as a correspondent at the ARD bureau in Paris. Since July 1, 2002 he is the successor of Claus Kleber

Claus Kleber

Claus Kleber is a German journalist. He is the anchorman of the news show heute journal of ZDF, a German public TV station...

 as chief of the ARD bureau in Washington. Kleber went to ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

 as the anchorman for the news programme Heute Journal

Heute Journal

Heute Journal is a television news magazine of ZDF, a national German television network. The name means roughly Today's Journal.The Journal first aired 2 January 1978 as a late weekday evening 20 minute program at one time Monday through Thursday and another on Friday. The broadcast time became...

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On September 1, 2006 he replaced Ulrich Wickert

Ulrich Wickert

Ulrich Wickert is a German journalist. He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany.As a result of his father's employment with NATO, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris. In the 1960s he studied law and political sciences at the University of Bonn...

 as the host of the news programme Tagesthemen

Tagesthemen

Tagesthemen is one of Germany's prime daily television news magazines, presented by journalists Caren Miosga and Tom Buhrow. Second only to the 8:00 PM Tagesschau Tagesthemen is the most important newscast of the ARD...

. He published a book about his years in the United States, Mein Amerika, Dein Amerika (My America, your America).

Buhrow is married to his colleague Sabine Stamer. He has two daughters.