Johannes Hano

Johannes Hano (born 1963) is a German journalist who has won the RIAS Television Award, the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award, and the Bavarian TV Awards for his documentaries and work in the field of journalism. Hano graduated from school having studied political science and administrative law in Frankfurt. He continued in several internships, and eventually, a job as a freelance journalist from 1994 to 2002. Afterwards, he went to work at the Landesstudio Hamburg from 1994 to 1998. He worked as a planning editor and reporter for the ZDF morning magazine until 1999. While working at the ZDF he focused on domestic policy and the Kosovo War. Following this, he would go on to report for the Hauptstadtstudio Berlin until 2001. Then, he became a correspondent from the Bundestag. From 2001 to 2006 he worked as a reporter for the magazine Frontal. Johannes would go on to become the head of the ZDF studio in Beijing and the person responsible for managing ZDF reporting in Japan from January 2007 to August 2014. Hano took over the management of the ZDF correspondent's office in New York City on September 1, 2014