Kysia Hekster will be the new NOS correspondent for the European Union, NATO and the countries Belgium and Luxembourg. She succeeds Thomas Spekschoor, who returns to the Netherlands and starts working as a reporter and editor in the interior editorial office. In Brussels, Hekster becomes a correspondent alongside Sander van Hoorn.
Hekster (1971) has worked at NOS since 1998, where she was, among other things, deputy chief of the foreign editorial staff. From 2008 to 2012 she was NOS correspondent in Russia, where she also published the book The Putin Show wrote. She is currently a national reporter and follows the Royal Family.
Hekster is looking forward to her move to Brussels: “In the coming years, an incredible amount has to be done in the European Union, for example in areas such as climate and migration.”
NOS editor-in-chief Marcel Gelauff is convinced that Hekster is an asset to Bureau Brussel, partly due to her experience as a correspondent in Moscow and as a reporter in the Royal House. “She also has a good political instinct and I expect that she can provide insight into the sometimes complex developments in the European Union for a wide audience.”
Aïda Brands succeeds Bert van Slooten
Aïda Brands will move to Brussels and will succeed Bert van Slooten, who has come to the end of his five-year term as an editor in Brussels. Brands has worked on the NOS economy editorial since 2017 and previously as a political and financial editor for broadcaster WNL.
Brands is also looking forward to the switch: “I can’t wait to get my teeth into the EU file.” Editor-in-chief Gelauff calls Brands an enthusiastic, ambitious and worthy successor to Bert van Slooten.