Indrek Treufeldt

Indrek Treufeldt (born 16 May 1969) is an Estonian journalist, television presenter, civil servant and academic. He has worked in Estonian public broadcasting since the 1980s, including as a presenter and correspondent for Eesti Televisioon, and has taught television journalism at Tallinn University since 2007. From 2021 to 2024 he served as communications adviser to President Alar Karis.

Education and academic work Treufeldt studied electronics at Tallinn University of Technology, graduating in 1993, and journalism at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1996.

His dissertation examined the making of journalistic facts in different social systems, comparing authoritarian, totalitarian and democratic settings and drawing in part on Estonian and Finnish broadcast material. His academic work has focused on how journalism constructs facts and on broadcasting history.

Journalism and public service Treufeldt began working in journalism at Estonian Radio in 1986.

In September 2021 Treufeldt was named public relations adviser to president-elect Alar Karis; he took up the role after leaving Estonian Public Broadcasting.

His film Mehed unustatud armeest (2006) dealt with Estonians who guarded defendants during the Nuremberg trials, while Ma elasin Eesti Vabariigis (2010), written with Tiina Kaalep, examined Estonia on the eve of the loss of its independence in 1939.

Among the television series associated with him are 11 000 aastat hiljem (11 Thousand Years Later), a 12-part documentary series; Sinine, must, valge (2013); Uhutud mõistus (2016), a six-part series on propaganda and mass communication; and Ehitades Eestit (2018), a 12-part documentary series on the making of the Estonian Republic.

Selected works 11 000 aastat hiljem (2007–2008), documentary series.