Education
Buhrow studied history and political science in Bonn.
Buhrow studied history and political science in Bonn.
In 1978, he worked at the local newspaper Bonner General-Anzeiger. In 1985, he volunteered at the largest television station in North Rhine-Westphalia, WDR. Since 1986 he was the editor, reporter and bureau chief of the shows Aktuelle Stunde and West 3 Aktuell. After that he worked as an editor and reporter at the most-seen German nightly news, the Tagesschau.
In 1992/1993, Buhrow became the correspondent of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator bureau in Washington District of Columbia in the midst of the Presidential Elections 1992.
Since January 2000, he worked as a correspondent at the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator bureau in Paris. Since July 1, 2002 he is the successor of Claus Kleber as chief of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator bureau in Washington.
Kleber went to ZDF as the anchorman for the news programme Heute Journal. On September 1, 2006 he replaced Ulrich Wickert as the host of the news programme Tagesthemen.
He published a book about his years in the United States, Mein Amerika, Delegation Amerika (My America, your America).
He has two daughters. On 29 May 2013 Tom Buhrow was elected intendant of the WDR.