Alexandra Föderl-Schmid

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Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (2014)

Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (* 30 January 1971 in Haslach , Upper Austria as Alexandra Schmid ) is an Austrian journalist . From 2007 to 2017 she was editor-in-chief and since 2012 also co-editor of the daily newspaper Der Standard . She has been the correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel since 2017 and a member of the editor-in-chief since 2020.

life and career

Alexandra Schmid grew up in Klaffer in the Mühlviertel and graduated from high school in Rohrbach from 1981 to 1989 . Already during her school days she wrote articles for the Mühlviertler Nachrichten (today Oberösterreichische Rundschau ) and the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten .

Schmid studied journalism , political science and history at the University of Salzburg . She wrote her first article for the Standard in June 1990 as a domestic policy journalist in Linz . She wrote a diploma thesis entitled Journalism is in reality a man's job, which dealt with the labor market in the media sector in Upper Austria.

In 1993 Schmid married Markus Föderl ‑ Höbenreich, then editor-in-chief of the German news channel n-tv .

From 1993 to 2004, Föderl-Schmid was the correspondent for Standard in Berlin. In 1996 she completed her dissertation on From Monopoly to Market: Ten Years of the Dual Broadcasting System in Germany . In 2003 she became deputy chairwoman and in 2004, as the first woman, chairwoman of the Association of Foreign Press in Germany.

In 2005 Föderl-Schmid completed a three-month study visit to the Green College of Oxford University as part of the Alfred Geiringer Scholarship awarded by the Austria Press Agency . From April 2005 to March 2006, Föderl-Schmid was Brussels correspondent for Standard , before moving to Vienna as head of the economic department . In July 2007 she became the first woman editor-in-chief of an Austrian daily newspaper at Standard . Between 2007 and 2013 she also worked as an author and reviewer of political and historical books for the Europäische Rundschau .

Between 2008 and 2017 she was the first moderator of the series Europe in Discourse in the Vienna Burgtheater . From 2008 to 2014 Föderl-Schmid was a board member of the Vienna-based International Press Institute and from 2010 to 2012 a member of the UNESCO jury, which awards the annual freedom of the press. In October 2012 Föderl-Schmid became co-editor of the Standard . After merging the print and online divisions in July 2013, she headed the joint editorial team. In the 2013 summer semester, she held the Theodor Herzl Lecturer in Poetics of Journalism at the University of Vienna . Since 2017 she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, which, among other things , publishes the Digital News Report every year .

At the end of August 2017, Föderl-Schmid stopped working for Standard . From the beginning of November 2017 to June 30, 2020 she was a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel. Since July 15, 2020 she has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief there. Föderl-Schmid was frequent participant in the ORF telecast Pressestunde and until 2017 regular interviewer in the Ö1 telecast Talking .

Of institutionalization as the big weekend editorial, the editors of newspapers often perceived as a duty, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid holds nothing:

“I write when I have something to say. And when a colleague has a better idea or a more topical topic, he or she writes the Saturday editorial. "

- Alexandra Föderl-Schmid : Interview with Freddie Kräftner (2007)

Her role models include Föderl-Schmid Gerfried Sperl and Patricia Verdugo , whose research led to the charges against Augusto Pinochet . In the newspaper sector, before moving there, she named the analyzes and comments in the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the design and team reporting of the Financial Times and the Financial Times Deutschland as role models.

Föderl-Schmid speaks fluent Spanish and worked as an election observer in South America for the Carter Center .

Awards

Publications

  • Journalists have to be super clean. Demand and Reality in the Media World , Picus Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7117-2004-7
  • (with Michael Kerbler): Vaclav Havel. The Velvet Revolutionary , Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-85129-865-9
  • March 12, 1989: Tim Berners-Lee outlines the World Wide Web. In: Hannes Androsch / Bernhard Ecker / Manfred Matzka: 1814-1914-2014. 14 events that changed the world . Brandstätter Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-807-3
  • Model for the AfD: the FPÖ . In: AfD - Fight or Ignore ?: Intelligent arguments from 14 democrats . Kellner-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-95651-121-9
  • Big bang through big data. In: Hannes Androsch / Heinz Fischer / Bernhard Ecker: 1848 - 1918–2018.

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Schmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Off to new shores. Alexandra Föderl-Schmid in an interview with Freddie Kräftner, Der Österreichische Journalist , No. 06 + 07 2007, pp. 34–38
  2. ↑ From monopoly to market: ten years of the dual broadcasting system in Germany . January 1st, 1996. Föderl-Höbenreich, Alexandra: From monopoly to market: ten years of dual broadcasting system in Germany / submitted by Alexandra Föderl-Höbenreich, 1996. - 292 sheets - Salzburg, Univ., Diss., 1996, Austrian National Library
  3. ↑ Standard editor-in-chief - deliberately a special case! | the beaver. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  4. ^ List of the authors of the Europäische Rundschau. In: europaeische-rundschau.at. www.europaeische-rundschau.at, accessed on March 14, 2017 . List of authors of the Europäische Rundschau
  5. ↑ Harald Schneider: "Der Standard": Föderl-Schmid becomes co-editor . In: The press . August 28, 2012 ( diepresse.com ).
  6. ^ Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies »Herzl-Dozentur. In: ac.at. publizistik.univie.ac.at, accessed on March 14, 2017 . Entry on the Theodor Herzl lectureship at the University of Vienna
  7. ↑ Standard.at
  8. ↑ derStandard.at: Editor Alexandra Föderl-Schmid leaves STANDARD at the end of August . Article dated May 16, 2017, accessed May 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ Alexandra Föderl-Schmid goes to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". May 17, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Alexandra Föderl-Schmid becomes deputy editor-in-chief of "SZ". March 17, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  11. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: STANDARD editor-in-chief Föderl-Schmid receives Vorhofer Award 2012 . In: derStandard.at . May 9, 2012 ( derstandard.at [accessed January 1, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Constitution Prize (October 20, 2017)
  13. ^ Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism . APA-OTS of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, November 2, 2017, Vienna.
personal data
SURNAME Föderl-Schmid, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Alexandra; Föderl-Höbenreich, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, deputy Editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Haslach an der Mühl