 On July 1, 2002, he took over from Claus Kleber as chief of the ARD 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, Dein Amerika" ("My America, your America").