Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Judith Rakers (born 6 January 1976 in Paderborn, West Germany) is a German journalist and television presenter. Rakers grew up in Bad Lippspringe with her single father. After graduating from the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn from 1995 to 2001, she studied journalism and communication studies, German philology and modern and contemporary history at the University of Münster. In parallel, Rakers worked as a radio presenter at the NRW-local radio stations; Radio Hochstift and Antenne Münster. From January 2004 to 17 January 2010, Rakers presented the Hamburg Journal for local TV-station Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Since 2005, Rakers presents the Tagesschau news programme on ARD, as well as reading the news in the Tagesthemen, Nachtmagaz