Tina Hassel (born 11 May 1964) is a German broadcast journalist. Since July 2015 she has been director of the capital studio of ARD, the German public broadcasting association.
Early life and education Born in Cologne,"Tina Hassel privat: Von Washington nach Berlin! So lebt die ARD-Redakteurin ", News.de, 25 September 2017, retrieved 1 February 2020 . Hassel studied at the universities of Cologne and Bordeaux and earned a Magister degree in Germanic studies, history and political science."Tina Hassel: Sender, Westdeutscher Rundfunk" ARD, retrieved 1 February 2020 .
Career While still a student, Hassel began working for radio and TV stations in Germany and France."Tina Hassel neue Studioleiterin in Berlin", Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 1 July 2015, retrieved 1 February 2020 ."Tina Hassel: Leiterin und Chefreporterin des ARD Studio Washington", Kress.de, retrieved 1 February 2020 .
Hassel worked at Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) from 1990 to 1994, initially as a volunteer and then starting in 1992 as an editor and presenter. From 1994 to 1999, she was the Brussels and then Paris correspondent of WDR's parent organization ARD. From November 2001 to May 2012, she was a presenter on , the world news program on ARD's Das Erste TV channel. In addition, in December 2001 she became foreign head at WDR. She then headed ARD's studio in Washington, DC from July 2012 to June 2015."Personalien: Tina Hassel übernimmt Leitung des ARD-Studios Washington", press release, WDR, 9 May 2012 .
On 1 July 2015, Hassel succeeded Ulrich Deppendorf as director and chief television editor at the ARD capital studio in Berlin, the first woman to hold the position. In this capacity, she is along Matthias Deiß also the presenter of Bericht aus Berlin (Report from Berlin).Uwe Mantel, "Tina Hassel löst Deppendorf im Hauptstadtstudio ab", DWDL.de, 9 April 2014, retrieved 1 February 2020 . Among others, she has interviewed Prime Minister Theresa May (2018)Tina Hassel, ARD Berlin, im Interview mit Premierministerin Theresa May Tagesschau, 17 February 2018. and Chancellor Angela Merkel (2020,Merkel im ARD-Interview: "Täten wir nichts, wären die Schulden größer" Tagesschau, 4 June 2020. and 2021).Merkel im ARD-Interview: "Wir wollen das Maximum an Impfstoffen" Tagesschau, 2 February 2021.
In 2021 Hassel ran for the election of ZDF director, but when it became clear that she lacked the necessary votes, she withdrew her candidacy.
Criticism In January 2018, while reporting for ARD on the Alliance 90/The Greens party convention, Hassel tweeted in a manner that was criticized as lacking in neutrality. of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung characterized the tweets as "a salvo of delighted squeals","[eine] Salve von Juchz-Meldungen", Michael Hanfeld, "Stimmungsmache", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29 January 2018 . Alexander Will in , as part of a "massive media flanking action" for the party,"massive[r] mediale[r] Flankenschutz", Alexander Will, "Grüner Bettel", Nordwest-Zeitung, 29 January 2018, retrieved 1 February 2020 . and of Die Zeit took her to task for lacking the "professional, dispassionate distance" that ought particularly to be demonstrated by publicly financed, government-supported media."jene professionell-nüchterne Distanz", Jochen Bittner, "Versucht's mal mit Nüchternheit", Fünf vor acht opinion column, Die Zeit, 1 February 2018, retrieved 1 February 2020 . Hassel rejected the accusation that the tweets had been insufficiently neutral.Alexander Becker, "'Wie soll das vom Social Team der Grünen getoppt werden?': die euphorischen Parteitags-Tweets der ARD-Journalistin Tina Hassel", Meedia, 29 January 2018, retrieved 1 February 2020 .
Personal life Hassel is married and has three children. She is a patron of Kinderhospiz Bethel, a children's hospice in Bielefeld,"Tina Hassel wünscht Geborgenheit", Kinderhospiz Bethel, retrieved 2 February 2020 . and is a member of Atlantik-Brücke.Jahresbericht 2011/2012, Atlantik-Brücke, archived from the original on 18 May 2019; p. 46 .
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