After more than 25 years, the journalist Antonia Rados, best known for her reporting from war and crisis regions, is saying goodbye to the private broadcaster RTL.
The broadcaster announced this on Thursday.
Rados was still working as a reporter for RTL/NTV in Ukraine in the spring.
Stephan Schmitter, Managing Director of RTL News, said that Antonia Rados is an extraordinary reporter "who, with her knowledge of the country and its people, has made both political and everyday life in the crisis regions of the world more transparent for all of us".
Rados explained: “RTL was my journalistic home for more than a quarter of a century and I enjoyed working for the station over the years”.
She wishes "the new generation of reporters and especially reporters" all the best.
Antonia Rados became known to a wide television audience through her live reporting from Baghdad during the Iraq war in 2003.
For this she was awarded the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize for television journalism.
Her reportage "Feuertod" about Afghan women who set themselves on fire also won an award, for which she received the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in 2007, among others.
In 2019 she was awarded the German Television Prize in the category "Best Information: Foreign Reporter" for her NTV report "Yemen's slow death".
Austrian-born Antonia Rados began her journalistic career in 1978 at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).
In the early 1990s she became a special correspondent for West German Broadcasting (WDR).
From 1993 Rados was in action for RTL.
In 2008, the journalist went to ZDF as a special correspondent.
However, just six months later, Rados returned to RTL and has since worked as chief reporter for the Cologne broadcaster.