Education
Nowadays a political scientist with a Doctor of Philosophy, Rados began her career in 1978 at ORF.
journalist television presenter
Nowadays a political scientist with a Doctor of Philosophy, Rados began her career in 1978 at ORF.
Working as a foreign correspondent for Austrian national radio from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, she gained a reputation as a crisis reporter, most notably for her first-hand coverage of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. In 1991 she joined WDR as a special correspondent, and left in 1993 to join RTL Television. Her live coverage from Baghdad during the Iraq War brought her attention on a national level
She shifted to ZDF, a public-service television broadcaster, for a short time in 2008, but returned to RTL within the same year.
In March 2011, she interviewed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The veteran war correspondent and Middle East expert made a name for herself mainly with her dedicated reporting and features from war zones.
Rados lives with her spouse in Paris, France. Degree in political science (study in Paris and Salzburg), later Doctor of Philosophy in political science
1978–1980 Freelancer at ORF
1980–1984 Foreign Affairs Editorial Department at ORF
1984–1985 Correspondence in Washington, District of Columbia, Rome and Vienna for ORF
1991 Correspondence for WDR
1995–2008 Correspondence for RTL Television in Kosovo, Africa, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Iraq.
Head of the RTL Television department in Paris
2008 Documentaries abroad as well as Correspondence for ZDF heute journal
Since January 2009 Head of the Department Foreign Affairs for Mediengruppe RTL.