Journalist, moderator, and historian

Clare Richardson is a German-American-British journalist and TV presenter with more than 15 years of experience in international news covering many of the world’s biggest stories for major organizations.

Clare is a BBC News presenter and correspondent based in Washington, DC. For almost a decade she reported from the heart of Europe with Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Berlin, including as a news anchor and correspondent. She has covered news including pivotal elections in the United States and Germany, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and wars in the Middle East. Before her career in television, Clare served as World Editor of Reuters and The Huffington Post in New York.

As a foreign correspondent she has covered issues including elections in Indonesia, the Trump White House, and mass shootings in New Zealand and the US, and asylum-seekers in Mexico. She has reported from Brazil and Mozambique with fellowships from the International Reporting Project and from Germany as an Arthur F. Burns fellow in Berlin.

When she’s not presenting breaking news in the studio or rifling through files in the archives, you can find her in the field directing documentaries. Clare holds a PhD in history from the Freie Universität Berlin. She has also taught video and audio journalism at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

You can see examples of her work as a correspondent, presenter, director, and historian at the links above. To book Clare as a moderator for your event or reporter on assignment, please get in touch!