ARD correspondent
Ina Ruck is the “Journalist of the Year”
She received an award for her difficult work in Russia: According to a trade magazine, Ina Ruck was named “Journalist of the Year.”
“How she masters the balancing act between the obligation to provide information and the ‘unsayable’ is impressive.” The industry magazine has been awarding the undoped “Journalists of the Year” award since 2004.
This time too, the jury chose winners in almost a dozen other categories. The award for “Editor-in-Chief of the Year” went to “national” the journalist Philipp Peyman Engel (“Jüdische Allgemeine”) and “regionally” to the duo from “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”: Carsten Fiedler and Sarah Brasack.
Claus Kleber (68) was honored in the “Lifetime Achievement” category. He “had a lasting influence on German television as a foreign correspondent and TV anchor”: “For 18 years he moderated the “Heute-Journal” on ZDF with his very own, unmistakable Kleber style: a mixture of news-related seriousness, subtle humor and a Serenity that only those who can do a lot can afford.”