Fleur Launspach and Heleen D’Haens new NOS correspondents London and Rome

Fleur Launspach and Heleen D’Haens will be the new NOS correspondents in the UK and Italy respectively. Launspach succeeds Tim de Wit (London) and D’Haens succeeds Mustafa Marghadi in Rome.

“With Fleur and Heleen, we have again two relatively young, but very talented correspondents,” says Marcel Gelauff, editor-in-chief of NOS News. According to Gelauff, in their establishments in London and Rome, they can bring even closer “two European capitals with their own culture, on all platforms of the NOS”.

Launspach, 31, already supported current NOS correspondent Tim de Wit in the UK last year. She has worked in London for two years now as a freelance writer, notably for the news channels Al Jazeera English and NBC News. For KRO-NCRV series After the blow Launspach product a documentary on the Grenfell Tower fire.

His correspondence will begin in July. She is eager to report “a country reinventing itself after Brexit”.

‘Important correspondence’

Heleen D’Haens (28) started at NOS six years ago. In recent years, as a member of the foreign editorial team, she has written articles for the NOS Journaal, worked with correspondents on reports and wrote articles for the NOS site. In recent years, she has also directed children’s documentaries on children’s rights in Eastern Europe and Africa for the EO series. Human rights.

She also recently visited the United States for the presidential elections and was in Lesvos in the Moria refugee camp. burnt.

“As a journalist you notice how important it is to be where your story takes place,” says D’Haens, who will debut in Rome in August. She looks forward to an exciting correspondent. “The fact that the Netherlands often takes a critical look at Italy, for example on how European money is spent there, makes correspondence even more important and interesting.”