Heike Zahn has been a multimedia editor at German regional broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) since 1994. Before that, she completed a newspaper traineeship at the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung in Mainz. In the 1990s, she was a reporter at SWR for four years in the Kaiserslautern studio. Today, Heike Zahn is an editor for projects and networks at SWR, focusing on climate journalism, diversity in the media and post-migrant society.