Benjamin Dayton Fajzullin (born 16 February 1976) is a journalist, documentary maker, news anchor, reporter, producer, panel moderator and

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artist. He previously presented the national news show ''

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'' on SBS television from Sydney. He is based in Berlin, where he is one of the main presenters on DW.

Early life

Fajzullin was born in

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, Australia. His family background (he has

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, Polish, German and British heritage) sparked his interest in languages and travel. He started in theatre and

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at the age of eight and developed a taste for journalism as an editor of his school magazine in his senior year at the

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in 1993. Fajzullin completed an associate diploma in Speech and Drama with

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, London in 1994 and graduated from

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with a degree in journalism in 1996.

Career

Fajzullin launched his career as a journalist in radio in 1996. He was a reporter and newsreader at Radio 4CC in

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, Radio 4HI in

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and Radio 4BC in Brisbane. Fajzullin first moved to Germany in 2000. He reported around Europe for

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Radio in Bonn, where he also hosted the global broadcaster's English-language news and European current-affairs sho
Inside Europe
He filed business news for

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Consumer TV in Frankfurt and Berlin and was a correspondent on the

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's flagship financial programme, ''

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''. Fajzullin then moved to DW to become a

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on Deutsche Welle-TV. He covered the

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, reporting live from matches across the country. Fajzullin also voiced reports, produced and presented the German Football League's worldwide TV show, ''GOAL! The Bundesliga Magazine''. He produced and presented two series for German broadcaster

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"Auch mein Zuhause" about the challenges facing migrants from various countries, who had made Germany their home, and "Erlebnis Shopping Deutschland" about foreign tourists, who regularly came to Germany to experience German culture and buy German products. Fajzullin was DW's chief business anchor for about 10 years, reporting regularly from the

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, and hosting the weekly business show ''Made in Germany''. He was also the regular host of DW's successful and award-winning daily news show on the coronavirus pandemic ''COVID-19 Special'', for almost two years. Fajzullin rejoined DW's news desk at the end of 2021 as an anchor, and continued to file reports and direct documentaries for DW's news and business departments, including, ''Open Your Eyes to the UNSEEN: Tech will save us - right?!'' and ''Open Your Eyes to the UNSEEN: Mommy I can't breathe'', for which Fajzullin was merited with the AIB Award for Best Short Documentary.

References

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