At the age of 14, Eike Christian Petering founded a school newspaper. At 16, he became a writer for the Rheinische Post. Shortly thereafter, he contributed to a local station on Radio NRW, a regional magazine on SAT.1, and WDR radio.
During his journalism studies, specializing in political science and European law, and his training at the German School of Journalism, Petering expanded his authorship to include BR, Deutschlandfunk, and the Financial Times Deutschland. During this time, he also wrote articles for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other print media. For the book "The 101 veterans of the German economy“ he met and portrayed entrepreneurial legends such as Claus Hipp and Werner Brombach.
Petering subsequently worked primarily for ZDF, producing hundreds of reports for news programs such as heute-journal, heute, Länderspiegel, and many other programs. He reported on politics, business, law, and society in front of and behind the camera. Investigative research took him across Europe and the USA.
Over the years, Eike Christian Petering became the author of several documentaries, including “2018 Olympics: The Decision“ (ZDF Info, 06.07.2011) about Munich’s unsuccessful Olympic bid, “Payday after the storm“ (ZDF, 02.12.2012) about hurricane research in the USA, “The Amazon Story” (ZDF, 20.10.2014) about the rise and business practices of the group, “The forgotten genocide“ (ZDF Info, 24.04.2015) 100 years after the beginning of the Armenian genocide and “World power Google“ (ZDF, 04.01.2016) about the light and shadows of the world’s largest search engine.
Petering is also active in the field of corporate media and as a guest speaker and moderator: for example, as editor of the Corporate Governance Forum for the DAX supervisory boards and at events such as the Cyber Mentor Congress, the program “Phoenix on site“ or one event series of the Federal Foreign Office.