Tanit Koch (born 2 August 1977 in Konstanz) is a journalist and regular contributor to the British weekly The New European. She was the first female editor-in-chief of the German tabloid newspaper Bild.
In 2018, Koch left Axel Springer after a power struggle with Bild editor digital, Julian Reichelt, who was sacked in 2021. In a farewell email to her colleagues Koch wrote that "when two people don't work in professional harmony" this could be balanced out by compromises for a while. "2017 was marked by this, until my willingness to compromise reached its limits."
In March 2019, Koch was appointed managing director of the German independent news channel n-tv. In addition, she led the digital transformation at RTL Germany as the Editor of its newly created integrated newsroom. Under her management, ntv was the only German news channel to receive a special TV award for outstanding achievements during the coverage of the Covid pandemic. Koch left her roles in late 2020 but continued to co-host the podcast Die Stunde Null.
During the management buyout of The New European in 2021, the anti-Brexit weekly founded in the aftermath of the EU referendum, Koch formed part of the investor consortium including CNN CEO Mark Thompson and former FT editor Lionel Barber. Together with Alastair Campbell, Bonnie Greer and Will Self, Koch is a regular contributor to the award-winning paper. She writes the weekly column Germansplaining and is a regular commentator on German and European affairs for political talkshows.
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