Jessica Zahedi (born 1 August 1978 in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

) is a German television presenter and journalist. Zahedi completed her Abitur at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in

Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...

and studied political science at the

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. Later she worked at Radio RPR, where she was a trainee. After collaborating on an online TV project of

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and as a reporter, she participated in the launch of the youth wave bigFM in

Rheinland-Pfalz Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

. Finally, she went to Hamburg to work at

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in advertising. Then she returned to Mainz. Since 2006 she has worked at

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in the

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program. Zahedi has a child born in 2012.Was War Wann
Retrieved 20 July 2016.

Programs

;Currently: *heute Xpress (since 2015) ;Formerly: *heute plus (2011–2015) *

heute ''heute'' (; German for ''today'') is a television news program on the German channel ZDF. The main program is broadcast at 19:00, and includes news, with an emphasis on political news from Germany, Europe and the world, plus 'mixed' news from ...

(Early and late editions, short segments during the ZDF morning magazine; 2011-2015)

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1978 births Living people German women television presenters German women television journalists 21st-century German journalists German broadcast news analysts Mass media people from Heidelberg ZDF people ZDF heute presenters and reporters {{Germany-journalist-stub