Dionne Stax (born 22 April 1985) is a Dutch journalist and newsreader.

Biography

She attended elzendaal college boxmeer and studied

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, with her

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and

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at the

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. Stax started in 2007 at ''NOS Headlines'', the predecessor of ''NOS op 3'', as a trainee. There she gave weekly reviews of ''NOS Headlines'' for the digital theme channel NOS Journaal 24. After completing a second internship at the inland editors, Stax graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2009. In February 2012, Stax became one of the presenters of the news bulletin ''NOS op 3'' on television. In addition to presenting, Stax works as an in-house editor at NOS News. In June 2013 she became one of the fixed faces of the morning and daytime broadcasts of the

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; since May 2015, Stax has also presented the evening bulletins. On 5 December 2015 she presented her first 8pm news. Stax was on air during the Paris attacks in January 2015, breaking the news of both the

Charlie Hebdo shooting On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'' were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Islam in Algeria, Algerian Muslim bro ...

and the hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket two days later. From 2015, Stax presented the election results as the successor to

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. On 27 April 2016,

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, in Zwolle, Stax was the first journalist to interview the Dutch princesses Amalia, Alexia and

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, after asking their parents some questions in the same interview. In 2017, she presented a programme at

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and made the documentary series ''Lady Di & Dionne'' for NTR about the life of Lady Diana. In 2016, she wore a shirt with Palestinian black and white kufiyyeh in a gesture against Israeli human rights violations. She appeared in a 2023 episode of the television series ''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stax, Dionne 1985 births Living people Dutch television news presenters Dutch journalists Dutch television presenters People from Boxmeer Tilburg University alumni University of Amsterdam alumni