Markus Hesselmann

Markus is UK Correspondent of Der Tagesspiegel, a daily quality newspaper published in Berlin with a circulation all over Germany. He has studied English, German and journalism at Free University Berlin and
the University of Reading, England, and has been trained as a journalist in a special two-year trainee program (“Volontariat”) at Der Tagesspiegel.

For three years, Markus was metro editor of that paper and then moved to the sports desk in order to coordinate and prepare the reporting and editing of the football (soccer) World Cup 2006 in Germany. In February 2007 he took up his new post as UK Correspondent in London.

He is involved with the teaching and coaching of the newspaper’s trainees and young journalists. He coordinates an exchange program for journalists and students between Der Tagesspiegel and the Department of German at the University of Cambridge, England.

With Lorenz Maroldt, editor in chief of Der Tagesspiegel, he teaches a weekend seminar on Journalism at the University of Cambridge once a year. He is a guest lecturer at Institut für Publizistik, Free University Berlin, and has also taught at the Goethe Institute in London.