Ivonne Marschall to be appointed head of the English service of dpa international (FOTO)

Berlin (ots) -

As of November 15, 2018, Ivonne Marschall (41) will be in charge
the English language service of dpa international. She will be taking
over from Marco Mierke as head of the German Press Agency dpa's
English language service. Marschall has worked for the English
service before in various locations. The 41-year-old Austrian has
been head of the Foreign Services Desk of dpa English Services for
the last two years. Marschall will be in charge of dpa
international's English-language reporting and of the editorial
offices in Berlin and Sydney. The English language service provides
dpa customers worldwide and around the clock with the latest news,
features and analyses in English.

Ivonne Marschall studied translation sciences
(German/English/Japanese) and political sciences at the University of
Vienna and started working as an agency reporter with the Japanese
news agency Kyodo as a student. She covered Austria and the
international organizations in the country, Eastern Europe and the
Balkans. She joined the team of dpa international in early 2007 as a
correspondent for the English service in Vienna. From 2008 onwards
she worked for three years as an editor on the English service's Asia
desk in Bangkok. In 2011 she moved to Berlin as part of the founding
team of the newly established Foreign Services Desk (fsd) in the main
dpa newsroom. She has headed that unit since 2017. Ivonne Marschall
was one of the first graduates of dpa-steps, a programme for future
leadership within dpa in 2015/16 (word order).

"Ivonne Marschall as head of the Foreign Services Desk has made a
great contribution to dpa's international and multimedia reporting.
She leads the team thoughtfully and is well networked within dpa's
departments and editorial desks. With her experience as a
correspondent and desk editor for the English service, she is an
ideal candidate to succeed Marco Mierke," says dpa Editor-in-Chief
Sven Gösmann. "I would like to thank Marco Mierke for his outstanding
performance in reorganizing the service and the difficult
restructuring during the change from three locations
(Berlin-Washington-Bangkok) to two desks in Berlin and Sydney,"
continues Gösmann.

dpa international is the umbrella brand under which the agency
brings together its services distributed outside Germany. In addition
to world news services in English, Spanish and Arabic, this includes
the dpa-Europadienst in German and service and consumer news as well
as feature services. dpa has been reporting in English with its own
network of correspondents from all over the world since 1957.

About dpa

The German News Agency (dpa) was founded in 1949 and is one of the
world's leading independent news agencies. dpa supplies media
outlets, businesses and other organizations with editorial content,
including text, photos, videos, graphics, audio and other formats. As
an international agency, dpa reports in four languages: German,
English, Spanish and Arabic. The company has around 1,000 journalists
in 160 locations in Germany and abroad. Its shareholders are 180
German media companies. Staff work according to the principles
outlined in the dpa statute: independently from ideologies,
businesses and governments. The central editing desk, under the
leadership of editor-in-chief Sven Gösmann, is located in Berlin. The
management team, headed by chairman Peter Kropsch, is based in
Hamburg. The chairman of the Supervisory Board is David Brandstätter
(Main-Post GmbH, Würzburg).

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