After almost 30 years: journalist Antonia Rados stops at RTL

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Antonia Rados in the Congo: after more than 25 years she ends her career (picture from 2006)

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Maurizio Gambarini / dpa

The foreign reporter from Mediengruppe RTL has received several awards for her reporting from war and crisis zones - now the 69-year-old says goodbye after more than 25 years.

Rados became known above all for her reports from the Iraq war at the beginning of the 2000s, for which she was awarded the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize and the German Television Prize.

In 2008, the native Austrian switched to ZDF's »heute-journal« but returned to RTL a year later.

In 2011, she interviewed Muammar al-Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader.

Rados was still in Ukraine in the spring to report on the Russian war of aggression for RTL and n-tv.

According to a report, the media group describes Rados as its journalistic home: "I had many opportunities to realize myself as a reporter and I would also like to thank my colleagues for giving me a very free hand."

"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 world's crisis regions more transparent for all of us," says Stephan Schmitter, Managing Director of RTL News and Chief Journalistic Content Officer RTL Germany.

He thanks Rados for the "courageous commitment and the great cooperation".

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