Eva Jinek
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Eva Jinek (born July 13, 1978 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an Dutch journalist and television anchor with the NOS Journaal. She is of Czech descent.
Biography
Eva was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up in Washington, D.C.. Her Czech parents decided to move to the Netherlands when she was eleven. "Just before I went to high school, they decided that they would prefer that my brother and I grow up in Europe. I remember it was six weeks until I spoke my first word in Dutch."[citation needed]
After studying American history at the University of Leiden in 2004, she became foreign editor of the Dutch public network news NOS Journaal, where she covered the United States. In addition, since the end of 2007 she anchored the news show NOS Journaal 3. Since the autumn of 2008, Jinek presented the morning and afternoon news bulletins of the NOS. In May of that year she joined with fellow editor Monique van Hoogstraten, the editor of "Het maakbare nieuws," a collection of eighteen stories with foreign journalists, provided in response to the book "Het zijn net mensen" (Almost Human) of journalist-writer Joris Luyendijk.
She is well known as a co-host of the show 'Amerika Kiest' (America Votes) of the NOS on the U.S. presidential elections, seen from the Netherlands on November 4 and 5th, 2008. Together with Philip Freriks she reported directly from the Occidental Restaurant near the White House.
About the preparation of Amerika Kiest says Jinek in Mikro Guide: "The last weeks before the broadcast Amerika Kiest totally dominated my life, at the end, even 24 hours a day. I was so nervous. It felt like all eyes were on me. I just thought: Oh my god, let me do well. Really well!"[citation needed]
On January 20, 2009, she was the host of the live broadcast on Nederland 1 of the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States.
On March 2, 2009 she was in the news inadvertently when a video of her adjusting her shirt surfaced on the internet. In the video she mutters and shouts mild curses in both English and Dutch. She then exclaims, "Yeah, Boobies!" at one point, continuing with, "Mother of God. Yeah, if you have it, flaunt it!"