Tanit Koch

Journalist

Tanit Koch is a German journalist, moderator and former media executive. She is a columnist for the British weekly „The New European“ and regularly comments on current affairs in national and international media. Between June and October 2021 she ran campaign communications for the CDU frontrunner Armin Laschet. Until then, she also co-hosted the business-meets-politics podcast „Die Stunde Null“

Until November 2020 she served as managing director of the German news channel n-tv and as editor-in-chief of RTL‘s integrated newsroom, overseeing the digital transformation process of the tv brand. Up until March 2018 she was editor-in-chief of the largest German newspaper BILD. Previously she held several senior positions within Axel Springer SE, such as deputy editor BILD, bureau chief of BILD HAMBURG and senior editor within the editorial board of WELT Group. She started her career in 2005 as a journalistic trainee at the politics/business desk of BILD and the Axel Springer Journalism School.

Tanit Koch grew up in Bonn, Germany. She holds degrees in Law and Political Science from Cologne University and Tübingen University, and studied in Pamplona, at Sciences Po Paris and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She attended secondary school in Dublin, Ireland.

Her affiliations include the Freundeskreis Yad Vashem e.V., the Johanna Quandt Stiftung and the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, founded (among others) by former Nato-Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Michael Chertoff and Joe Biden.

Tanit Koch was an Atlantik Brücke Young Leader, she took part in the British-German-Forum at Wilton Park and held a scholarship from Friedrich Naumann Stiftung. Until May 2021 she served on the board of Deutschlandstiftung Integration.