Tom Buhrow (born 29 September 1958) is a German journalist[1] who has been serving as intendant of the WDR since 2013.

Since 1986 he was the editor, reporter and bureau chief of the shows Aktuelle Stunde and West 3 Aktuell.

He then worked as an editor and reporter at the most-seen German nightly news, the Tagesschau.

[1] In 1992/1993, Buhrow became the correspondent of the ARD bureau in Washington D.C. in the midst of the 1992 U.S. presidential election.

On 1 September 2006, Buhrow replaced Ulrich Wickert as the host of the news programme Tagesthemen.