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Thomas Struk becomes regional office manager east of the dpa

Berlin (ots) – Thomas Struk, previously regional office manager in Hanover, is moving to the head of the regional office east of the German press agency. The 49-year-old will succeed Thomas Pfaffe on February 1, 2021, who will switch to dpa-IT as an agile coach in November. Struk has headed the dpa regional office in Hanover and the Lower Saxony-Bremen regional service (lni) for nine years. As regional office manager east, he will be responsible for five states with four regional services: Berlin-Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. This includes almost 65 permanent multimedia editors and more than a dozen freelancers at more than ten locations.

dpa editor-in-chief Sven Gösmann says: “For the largest country office of dpa, especially in the election year 2021, we need an experienced and well-versed manager – we have found Thomas Struk in our own ranks. He can build on the successful work of his predecessor Thomas Pfaffe and will set new impulses for our important customers in East Germany. “

However, the field of work is not new to him. Before moving to Lower Saxony, Struk was active as dpa service manager in Magdeburg and as a volunteer for the “Thüringische Landeszeitung” shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. After studying journalism, Struk, who was born in Höxter, first worked in the foreign editorial department of the German service of the Associated Press in Frankfurt, before he started working for the dpa in April 2000 as a political correspondent for the Rhineland-Palatinate-Saar regional service in Mainz. From there he also took over several representations in the Tel Aviv correspondent office.

The dpa controls its regional reporting from seven state offices in twelve state services nationwide. Locations in addition to Berlin are Düsseldorf, Frankfurt / Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart. The East Regional Office represents almost a quarter of Germany, with reporters and photographers in dpa external offices such as Potsdam, Cottbus, Magdeburg, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, Erfurt and Gera. The complete multimedia product consisting of text, images, graphics, audio and video has been edited and played out centrally at the Germany desk in Berlin since this summer.

About dpa:

The German Press Agency (dpa) was founded in 1949 and is one of the world’s leading independent news agencies. dpa supplies media, companies and organizations with editorial offers. This includes texts, photos, videos, graphics, radio reports and other formats. As an international agency, dpa reports in seven languages. Around 1000 journalists work from more than 150 locations in Germany and abroad. 177 German media companies are shareholders of dpa. The dpa editorial team works according to the principles set out in the dpa statute: regardless of world views, business enterprises or governments. The central editorial office, headed by editor-in-chief Sven Gösmann, is located in Berlin. The management around its chairman Peter Kropsch works at the company’s headquarters in Hamburg. The chairman of the supervisory board is David Brandstätter (Main-Post GmbH, Würzburg).

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