heute-journal (roughly Today's Journal) is a German television news program broadcast on ZDF.

The running time of the programme is sometimes extended to one hour, to cover special events or particularly important stories.

In contrast to Heute, its early evening counterpart, heute-journal provides in-depth coverage of the news, usually with detailed background information and interviews with politicians, business leaders, experts, and other key people.

Initially, the program programme's opening sequence showed the anchors, with a clock overlay and a ticker with headlines of the day.

The camera panned towards the anchors while the day's headlines, along with the time, were seen in the background; there was no real title sequence.