Ingo Zamperoni | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | German, Italian |
Occupation(s) | News presenter, journalist |
Years active | 2002–present |
Employer | ARD |
Ingo Antonio Zamperoni (born May 3, 1974, in Wiesbaden, West Germany)[1] is a German news presenter and journalist. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the presenter of the Tagesthemen news magazine on the Das Erste channel, a role he continued in October 2016 upon returning from deployment as the ARD correspondent in Washington, D.C., between 2014 and 2016.
Born to an Italian father and German mother,[1] Zamperoni was first introduced to presenting and journalism when he, after having obtained his Abitur, was in civilian service at the Radio Klinikfunk station in Wiesbaden.[2] His parents had met in 1967 at Lake Maggiore. His father was a manager at Hoechst. Zamperoni has a brother four years younger, who is a practicing gynaecologist in Wiesbaden.[3]
Between 1994 and 1999, Zamperoni studied American studies, law, and history at the University of Konstanz, and in Berlin and Boston.[1][4]
After his studies, Zamperoni completed a traineeship at the NDR,[5] after which he got a job in the NDR TV branch in Hamburg, for whom he worked as a subcontractor for the ARD and contributed to the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen broadcasts as a writer and reporter from 2002.[5][1] He anchored the news show NDR Info, Niedersachsen 19.30 and as an anchor for the foreign magazine show Weltbilder (World Pictures).[1]
On March 5, 2007, Zamperoni succeeded Anja Bröker as the moderator of the Nachtmagazin (Night Magazine) on the ARD flagship channel Das Erste,[1] and until 2013, he – in constant rotation with the second host, Gabi Bauer – anchored the show.
In 2012, Zamperoni switched to the Tagesthemen team, replacing Susanne Holst as a substitute for Caren Miosga and Tom Buhrow.[6] In addition to filling in for Miosga and Buhrow,[7] he was scheduled to anchor Tagesthemen twelve weeks a year, and after Buhrow left the show, Zamperoni became a regular presenter.[8]
In October 2013, it was announced on the ARD show Tagesschau Online that Zamperoni would move to Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2014, to become US correspondent for ARD.[9]
Zamperoni returned to Germany from Washington, D.C., in October 2016, and on October 24, he became one of the main anchors of Tagesthemen, succeeding Thomas Roth,[10] and in constant rotation with Caren Miosga and Pinar Atalay.[11]
Since 2007, Zamperoni has been an ambassador for the children's aid organisation Save the Children,[12] particularly focused on the educational programmes helping children in war zones.[13] He is also an ambassador for the Bärenherz Foundation for seriously ill children.[14]
In 2013, he was nominated as one of the top three contestants for the Newcomer of the Year prize presented by the German journalist trade magazine, Medium Magazin.[15]
In 2006, Zamperoni married Jenniffer Bourguignon, an American,[1] with whom he has three children.[16] He speaks German, Italian, and English and enjoys cycle sport in his free time.[17]