Antonia Rados

Journalist, Film actor

1953 –

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Who is Antonia Rados?

Antonia Rados is an Austrian television journalist working for RTL Television since 1993.

Nowadays a political scientist with a PhD, Rados began her career in 1978 at ORF. Working as a foreign correspondent for Austrian national radio from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, she gained a reputation as a crisis reporter, most notably for her first-hand coverage of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. In 1991 she joined WDR as a special correspondent, and left in 1993 to join RTL Television. Her live coverage from Baghdad during the Iraq War brought her attention on a national level. Antonia Rados' coverage from Baghdad in 2003 was highly praised in the field of TV reporting, and consequently she won several prizes including the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Media Award for TV journalism. She shifted to ZDF, a public-service TV broadcaster, for a short time in 2008, but returned to RTL within the same year. In March 2011, she interviewed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

The veteran war correspondent and Middle East expert made a name for herself mainly with her dedicated reporting and features from war zones.

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Born
Jun 15, 1953
Klagenfurt
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  • Austria
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on July 23, 2013

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