Tommy Zwicky is a Danish journalist and television presenter. He is known for hosting the popular children's show ''Ultra Nyt'', on

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. He is the current editor-in-chief of

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Career

Journalism and television

He attended the Danish School of Media and Journalism 2001–2005, where he received the highest possible grade (13) for his thesis. Zwicky started his media career as freelancer journalist on

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in 2003. He has worked as a journalist for several Danish language channels including DR,

, Kanal 5,

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, among many others. He has directed and hosted the first daily news program for children, ''Ultra Nyt'', in Denmark. The program won ''Best new program award (non-fiction)'' at TV Prisen, in 2014. Additionally, he was part of the teams that won "Best Children´s program" 2011 and "Best entertainment" 2016.

Huawei controversy

Zwicky had worked in the

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's Danish office as the vice president of communications for seven months. He announced on Twitter that he has resigned his position. The announcement comes after it was revealed in

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, that Huawei has tested a face recognition technology that has been able to identify

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, the predominantly

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minority group that Chinese authorities have detained by the hundreds of thousands in reeducation camps.

References

Living people Danish television presenters Danish journalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Denmark-journalist-stub