Overview
- During the March 13 20:00 edition, Jens Riewa hesitated before a live switch and asked the control room, “Is that right, to Ina Ruck?”
- The sequence followed a link to Washington correspondent Kerstin Klein and was set to move next to Moscow correspondent Ina Ruck.
- Ina Ruck then appeared live, Riewa redirected smoothly enough, and the rest of the broadcast continued without further slips.
- Reports note the hesitation is missing from the ARD-Mediathek version of the program, indicating the moment was edited out.
- Coverage highlights Riewa’s decades at Tagesschau and cites his past remarks about taxing shift patterns as context rather than explanation.