Luten Leinhos is Editor in the news department of Public Television ZDF, Germany’s leading TV Broadcaster. He leads a team that put’s together the prestigious seven o’clock evening news which regularly draws an audience of three to four million viewers.
Luten has extensive experience as a correspondent in Latin Amercia for Public German Radio ARD (Ciudad de México 1995-2000) and ZDF Television (Rio de Janeiro, 2016-2018). In addition to that he has been working as a world and crisis reporter for many years. Formative missions were Hurricane Mitch in Central America (1998), the tsunami in Thailand (2004/2005) and the earthquake in Haiti (2010).
A key focus of his work is international politics. Luten is engaged in introducing more constructive elements to the news and he is also part of the recently founded trauma first aider team at ZDF news department.
