Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in Mainz)[1] is a German television journalist.

In 1997, he received a Telestar award for his reporting on the 1997 Central European flood.

[2] Beginning in 2010, Fornoff served alongside Petra Gerster as a moderator of the German news show heute.

[3] In 2014, he became the head of ZDF's editorial department concerning politics and current affairs, also serving as a supervisor for election polling.

[4] Fornoff also currently serves as a presenter on the ZDF show Politbarometer.