Austrian Journalists Club

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Austrian Journalists Club
(ÖJC)
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purpose Association of journalists
Chair: Fred Turnheim
Establishment date: 1977
Number of members: 6,700 (as of 2017)
Seat : Vienna
Website: www.oejc.at

The Austrian Journalists Club (ÖJC) is a non-party journalists' organization in Austria.

history

The association was founded in 1977 by Günther Nenning and Wolf in der Maur . Until 1984 the ÖJC consisted of only a few people (16) and served as a preliminary organization for the journalists' union within the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions ( ÖGB ). In 1984 the organization became independent. Your new chairman was the ORF sports journalist, Norbert Adam. At the same time, the ÖJC received all rights to the Dr. Karl Renner Publizistikpreis . The previous owner was no longer able to finance the price, as the trade union bank BAWAG withdrew as a sponsor. Adam then created a board of trustees based on social partnership, which ensures the financing of the price - until today. The Renner Prize was protected by trademark law. Also in 1984 , after the death of the South Tyrolean and Austrian journalist Claus Gatterer , the two ORF journalists Hans Preiner and Fred Turnheim proposed to the ÖJC that a Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize for socially committed journalism should be established. In 1988 the television journalist Fred Turnheim became the managing president of the ÖJC, was elected president of the ÖJC in 1990 and has remained so since then (as of 2020). In 1992, the ÖJC moved from the Vienna Trade Fair Palace to an attic office in the newly built Lugner City in the 15th district of Vienna . Turnheim converted the ÖJC into a modern communication and service club for journalists. In 1995 the first internet presence of the ÖJC was realized in cooperation with the Austria press agency. In 1997 the ÖJC was victim of an arson attack. The perpetrator was arrested by the police and legally sentenced. Just two weeks after the arson attack, the ÖJC resumed its office operations in a replacement office. Margarete Turnheim has been the club manager since 1991 . In 2002 the ÖJC moved to its new club location in the 1st district of Vienna, Blutgasse 3. In 2004 the ÖJC had 3,000 members, at the end of 2006 more than 4,600 members, currently (as of 2019) 6,700 members. This makes it the largest journalists' organization in Austria .

Vienna International Press Center

The ÖJC has been operating the Vienna International Press Center in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, since 2002 . This modern press center in one of the historical and listed buildings around Stephansplatz is mainly used by customers from business and science and is an essential part of the financing of the ÖJC. The ÖJC rejects - in order to guarantee the independence of the association - any form of federal press funding. He works very well - also economically - with the Austrian federal states and the province of South Tyrol, as well as the economy and other organizations.

ÖJC journalist prizes

The Austrian Journalists Club awards several journalism prizes.

  • The Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize for socially committed journalism is awarded annually in cooperation with the State of South Tyrol and the municipality of Sesto for socially committed journalism and is endowed with 5,000 euros.
  • The New Media Journalism Award for “outstanding journalistic achievements in the field of online journalism” is given annually. The main prize is endowed with 3,000 euros, the young talent prize with 1,000 euros.

Services

The organization sees itself as a service center for journalists. It issues a press pass and organizes discounts ( press discounts ) for its members. He also organizes numerous events and excursions at home and abroad.

Professional organization

In contrast to the Austrian journalists ' union (since 2007: GPA-DJP ), the ÖJC has been increasingly transformed into a professional organization since the general assembly in December 2002 . The statutes stipulate that the ÖJC remains politically independent. The ÖJC represents Austria in the organization of travel journalists FIJET - Fédération Internationale des Journalistes et Écrivains du Tourisme .

Journalism & Media Academy

The ÖJC runs the Journalism & Media Academy . Until his death in August 2009, Dr. Herbert Laszlo. The academy offers various short courses.

Media magazine [Statement]

Since December 2012, the magazine [Statement] has been published ten times a year, and now six times a year. It is made according to its own claim “By journalists - for journalists”. In May 2014 the subtitle was changed to "Österreichs Medienmagazin". The current length is 36 pages. The magazine takes up current media topics, trends and debates from Austria , Europe and the rest of the world. It was distributed until April 2014 as a supplement to the trade journal medianet with a circulation of 25,000 copies. The magazine is sent to all ÖJC members free of charge by post and can also be obtained as an ePaper from iKiosk.at or readly. Since May 2014 it has also been available at all Austrian newspaper kiosks and tobacconists. The editors-in-chief are ÖJC President Fred Turnheim and print journalist Oswald M. Klotz .

criticism

On the occasion of the presentation of the Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize in 2019, the Tyrolean blogger Markus Wilhelm criticized the business conduct of the ÖJC. Wilhelm was awarded the Gatterer Prize by the expert jury in 2019, but had rejected the prize. He then published research on the financing of the Gatterer Prize on his blog dietiwag.org . He revealed that only a fraction of the money raised by sponsors would be paid out to the annually nominated award winners. In response to the criticism expressed by Wilhelm, the state of Burgenland and the Esterhazy companies withdrew as sponsors of the Claus Gatterer Prize in September 2019 with immediate effect . For the presentation of the Gatterer Prize in 2020, the ÖJC announced on its website that it would "suspend" the prize due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖJC: Journalist Awards. Retrieved November 28, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Karl Renner Publizistikpreis 2015. Accessed December 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ ÖJC announces the New Media Journalism Award 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ dietiwag.org: The gentlemen from the “Austrian Journalists Club” and their business model “Claus Gatterer Prize” ; accessed on September 18, 2019
  5. ↑ orf.at of September 25, 2019: Gatterer Prize: Sponsors drop out ; accessed on September 25, 2019
  6. ^ Website of the ÖJC; accessed on July 21, 2020

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