Armin Wolf (journalist)

Armin Wolf (born August 19, 1966) is an Austrian journalist and well-known television anchor.

Since 2002 he has been presenting ORF's (Austria's public television network) daily news show "ZiB 2", the most respected news program in Austria with a market share of almost 30 percent. Wolf is also one of the hosts of the Sunday morning interview show "Pressestunde" (ORF's version of "Meet the Press"). For his interviews he was distinguished with numerous awards, e.g. "Journalist of the Year" 2004 and two "Romy" awards as Austria's most popular tv-anchor in 2006 and 2007.

Born in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Wolf began his broadcasting career in 1985 as a freelance reporter for ORF's local studio there. In 1987 he moved to Vienna as a reporter and editor for foreign affairs at ORF's premier radio program "Ö1". 1991/92 he was based in Washington D.C. as U.S.-correspondent. From 1995 to 2002 he was political editor, chief correspondent and managing editor of various tv-news programs at ORF.

Wolf graduated from the University of Vienna with a master's degree and from the University of Innsbruck with a doctorate in political science. He published two books about political communication and teaches courses in political science at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck. He lives with Austrian journalist Euke Frank (editor-in-chief of the popular magazine "Woman") and her two children in Vienna.

References

"This article is based in part on material from the German Wikipedia".

External links

* [http://kundendienst.orf.at/orfstars/wolf.html Biography] from ORF (in German)
* [http://zib.orf.at/zib2/wolf/main Armin Wolf's blog] (in German)