Richard Gutjahr

Richard Gutjahr (born 1973 in Bonn) is a German moderator and blogger. He is known for covering the alleged terror attacks in Nice and Munich in mid-2016 with a mobile phone, and he "explained how basic mobile technology allowed him to cover the two attacks".

Gutjahr is an alumnus of the German School of Journalism (Deutsche Journalistenschule) in Munich where he studied from 1993-1998. During this time he also studied political science and communications studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He completed his studies with a degree in journalism. He took part in an exchange of the Centre de formation des journalistes of Paris and between 1998 and 1999 in a semester program of the American University in Washington, D.C.

From 1992 to 1996, he worked as a news editor, live reporter and presenter for Radio Gong, followed by a stint at Bayern 3 from 1996 to 1999. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gutjahr worked as a freelancer and cartoonist. From January 1999, he spent five months as an intern for the CNN office in Washington. He subsequently worked for the national German public television channel Das Erste and its regional outlet for Bavaria, Bayerischer Rundfunk, where, among other things he hosted a program called "Live aus dem Alabama", a live broadcast from a popular concert venue.

Gutjahr is currently working at the office of the head of the TV side of Bayerischer Bundfunk, and he hosts Rundschau Night (Rundschau-Nacht). From 14 May to 7 June 2012 Gutjahr developed a SocialTV format for Rundschau with alternating co-hosts, including Daniel Fiene, Sascha Lobo and Sandra Riess. He also writes a weekly column since mid-2010 in the Abendzeitung. He also writes for other newspapers, including the Berliner Tagesspiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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