Bettina Friedrich works in the team of the programme director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. From December 2022 to March 2023, she was journalist in residence at Cyber Valley, Europe's largest AI research consortium. She studied journalism and Slavic studies in Leipzig, Zurich and Minsk. After a traineeship at ZDF, she worked in various editorial departments at MDR, in the directorate and for the editor-in-chief. During her studies she was sponsored by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Bettina Friedrich was born in Leipzig in 1982. After the peaceful revolution, her family moved to the USA for a while, and as a teenager she spent a year in Québec/Canada. She is married and has three children.