Antonia Rados is leaving RTL News after more than 25 years. The 69-year-old crisis reporter had been a prominent face on the private broadcaster since she reported on the Iraq war in 2003. She was awarded the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs Medienpreis for television journalism for her reports from Baghdad. “I had a lot of opportunities here to realize myself as a reporter, and I would also like to thank my colleagues for giving me a lot of free rein,” says the native of Klagenfurt. Rados is an exceptional reporter who, “with her knowledge of the country and its people, has made both political and everyday life in the world’s crisis regions more transparent for all of us,” said Stephan Schmitter, Managing Director of RTL NEWS and Chief Journalistic Content Officer of RTL Germany.
Rados began her journalistic career in 1978 at ORF. In the early 1990s she became a special correspondent for WDR. From 1993 she worked for RTL, with the exception of a year when she went to ZDF as a special correspondent in 2008. Since her return to the Cologne broadcaster, she has worked as “Chief Reporter Abroad”. Her reports have won several awards, for example the documentary “Feuertod” (2007) about Afghan women who set themselves on fire. Among other things, Rados received the Robert Geisendörfer Prize for the report. In 2019 she was also awarded the German Television Prize in the category “Best Information: Foreign Reporter” for her ntv reportage “Jemens Slower Tod”.
Most recently, Rados was on duty for RTL News in the spring, reporting from Ukraine on the war of aggression against the country.