Claus Reitan

Claus Reitan (2013)

Claus Reitan (born July 1, 1954 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian freelance journalist, author , columnist and moderator . He was editor-in-chief three times , from 1995 to 2005 for the Tiroler Tageszeitung , from 2006 to 2008 for the daily newspaper Austria and from 2008 to the end of 2012 for Die Furche . His topics are sustainability , politics , media , Austria and the European Union . In 2014/15 he completed the academic certificate program Sustainability & Journalism at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . In 2015 Claus Reitan was awarded the professional title of "Professor" by the Federal President for his services as an adult educator, author and journalist.

Career

Claus Reitan graduated from the Werkschulheim Felbertal in Salzburg in 1973 . After the one-year volunteer year , he studied law and political science for a few semesters at the University of Innsbruck (1st stage). He attended basic courses and trainer seminars at the Board of Trustees for Journalist Training and completed the business administration course at the St. Gallen Business School .

Claus Reitan began his journalistic career in 1978 at the Tiroler Tageszeitung in Innsbruck. In 1983 he switched to the editorial office in Vienna as a political editor. From 1991 to 1992 Reitan spent a year abroad at Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg and Berlin. In 1992 Reitan moved to Vienna as a domestic policy and Europe editor in the founding phase of News . Three years later, the Tiroler Tageszeitung brought him back to Innsbruck as editor-in-chief for the relaunch phase. After having headed the editorial department at the daily newspaper Austria since 2006 , he moved to the weekly newspaper Die Furche in 2008 in the same position . The end of 2012 he gave up his position as editor-boss there, and has since been freelancing and self-employed working as a journalist. From December 2013 to April 2014 he was also a project-related senior advisor for quality journalism in the network of the Milestones in Communication agency.

As editor-in-chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung , Reitan was an interviewer for the ORF broadcast Pressestunde several times and in 2004 one of the proponents of the editors-in-chief which he headed until 2013 and which co-founded the new Austrian press council . Reitan participated in juries for the award of prizes for journalists and media scholars and was awarded the Eduard Hartmann Prize in 1996.

Claus Reitan represents the political conception of the eco-social market economy initiated by Josef Riegler. In his opinion pieces he argues for a pro-European, republican-democratic, conservative-liberal attitude, for tolerance, understanding, justice and sustainability.

Moderator and lecturer

Reitan moderates discussions on politics and business, media and journalism, integration and religion; currently for the Julius Raab Foundation, for the Hayek Colloquium 2013 and the Institute of the Regions of Europe , of which he contributed for his special efforts to convey the topic of regionalism and decentralization in very profound presentations and thus deepen the understanding of regionalism was awarded the IRE Journalist Award 2013.

Lecturer

Claus Reitan is co-editor of the fifth edition of the Handbook of Practical Journalism (UVK) developed by Heinz Pürer . Reitan was and is active in the training and further education of journalists, including at the Board of Trustees for Journalism Training in Salzburg, at the University of Applied Sciences Journalism in Vienna, at the Center for Journalism and Communication Management at the Danube University Krems , at the University of Innsbruck and in management Center Innsbruck as well as at the Friedrich Funder Institute in Vienna and for newspapers in school .

Books

• 2016: The New Migration of Nations - Causes of Migration , Verlag Edition Steinbauer, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-902494-76-4 .
• 2015: Franz Schausberger. Politicians - Historians - Europeans. Biographical approach to a versatile , Böhlau Verlag, Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-205-79653-4 .
• 2014: Society in Transition: Change of Perspective for Austria , Verlag Edition Steinbauer, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-902494-70-2 .

Book contributions

To journalism

• Morale - a good investment ; in: Kaltenbrunner, Karmasin, Kraus, Daniela (eds.): The Journalists Report IV - Media Management in Austria; facultas.wuv, Vienna, 2013; ISBN 978-3-7089-0837-3
• You have to look at the people's mouths, but not write by their mouths . Transparency and participation are the buzzwords of modern journalism; in: Hüffel, Rohrer: Self-determined or externally determined? About the creation of content in mass media. Holzhausen, Vienna, 2013; ISBN 978-3-902868-78-7
• Why professionalism in the media? Why ethics in the media? ; in: MORE VALUE Public Value Report of the Association of Austrian Newspapers, Vienna, 2012
• Media Ethics - The Price of Freedom ; in: Anderwald, Filzmaier, Hren: Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 2012; ISBN 978-3-7086-0720-7
• It's a profession - It's a profession, stupid ; in: Springer, Raabe, Haas, Eichhorn (eds.): Media and Journalism in the 21st Century; Festschrift for Heinz Pürer; UVK, Munich-Konstanz, 2012; ISBN 978-3-86764-410-5
• Future of Journalism, in : Turnheim (ed.) Breaking News in Web 2.0 - Why we need journalism; Molden Verlag, Vienna, 2007; ISBN 978-3-85485-214-8

To politics

• Paradigm Shift 2000 - At the end of the grand coalition and a new beginning through a small coalition ; in: Khol, Ofner, Burker-Dottolo, Karner; Austrian Yearbook for Politics, Vienna, 1999; ISBN 3-7028-0373-4
• What has to change, what should stay the way it is? ; in: Khol, Ofner, Stirnemann: Austrian Yearbook for Politics, Vienna, 1998; ISBN 3-7028-0362-9
• The struggle for the true home ; in: Kriechbaumer: Austrian National History, Volume I, Böhlau, Vienna, 1998; ISBN 3-205-98909-0

Web links

• Claus Reitan's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus Reitan changes from Austria to Furche on diepresse.com
2. ↑ Claus Reitan - a "stroke of luck for the FURCHE" ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The furrow 21/2008 
3. ↑ Certificate course in Sustainability & Journalism at leuphana.de
4. ↑ BMBF awarding of high state awards on ots.at
5. ↑ Werkschulheim Felbertal Graduates  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Editor-in-chief Claus Reitan leaves the furrow on diepresse.com
7. ↑ Claus Reitan joins Milestones in Communication on derstandard.at
8. ↑ Claus Reitan leaves the advisory network of Milestones in Communication on derstandard.at
9. ^ Association of editors-in-chief , OTS press release from January 26, 2011
10. ↑ Constituent general assembly elects leadership , OTS press release from March 26, 2010
11. ^ Journalists' Prize Integration 2013 , OTS press release from September 16, 2013
12. ^ Overview of the winners of the Eduard Hartmann Prize
13. ↑ Obergurgl is a think tank for business , Tiroler Tageszeitung from September 13, 2013
14. ↑ IRE Journalist Award: Media Ambassadors of Regionalism 2013
15. ^ Journalism series of publications: The KfJ handbook "Practical Journalism. Press, Radio, Television, Online" by Heinz Pürer, Meinrad Rahofer, Claus Reitan (eds.), Published by UVK-Verlag
16. ↑ The 30 authors are media experts from Austria , on kfj.at
17. ↑ Lecturers / trainers of the course Quality Journalism, MA - Danube University Krems
18. ↑ Members of the executive committee of the Friedrich Funder Institute for Journalism, Media Research and Journalist Training
19. ↑ Journalist who comes to class for a lecture / conversation ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on zis.at
20. ^ Verlag Edition Steinbauer
21. ^ Böhlau Verlag
22. ^ Verlag Edition Steinbauer