Cornelia Vospernik

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Cornelia Vospernik (2013)

Cornelia Vospernik (* 1969 in Villach ) is an Austrian television journalist and was ORF-eins news chief from the beginning of 2011 .

Life

Vospernik is the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian educator and grammar school director Reginald Vospernik . She grew up bilingual (German, Slovenian) and attended the Federal High School for Slovenes in Klagenfurt. After attending the United World College in Duino near Trieste , she began studying interpreting for Slovenian and Italian in Graz , which she completed in 1994 with a master's degree.

She started her ORF career at the age of 15 in the Slovenian department of the ORF regional studio in Carinthia and worked for ORF over and over again throughout her studies. In 1996 she moved to the editorial office of Zeit im Bild in Vienna, after having worked as editor of the current service of the ORF regional studio in Carinthia. Since 1999 she has also moderated the late ZiB . From 2000 she headed the correspondents office in London for two years. Then she was editor of the ORF main department information and at times as a presenter of ZiB programs and the world journal . Subsequently, from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2010, she headed the ORF correspondents office for the People's Republic of China and the Far Eastern region in Beijing . From the beginning of 2011, Vospernik was ORF-eins news chief. Lisa Totzauer followed her in 2013 as ORF-eins Infochefin .

In December 2012 she became the head of the Northeast Europe Office, and from 2013 to 2018 she moderated Ö1 journals. She has been presenting the world journal on ORF television since 2014 . In September 2018 it was announced that she would switch to radio foreign policy. On July 1, 2020, she will be the head of the ORF correspondents office in Rome . In this role she succeeds Mathilde Schwabeneder , who will retire at this point in time.

In addition to her work at ORF, Cornelia Vospernik continues to work in her job as an interpreter and also works as a translator. In 2008 Vospernik published the book China Live: Everyday Life Between Tradition and High Tech (Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau KG, Vienna), in which she illuminates the disparities of the current development in China .

Awards

In 2009 she was awarded the Concordia Prize in the Freedom of the Press category for her intrepid and courageous reports from China. In 2010 she was named Foreign Policy Journalist of the Year together with Susanne Scholl . In 2010 she also received the Felix Ermacora Press Prize for her reports on human rights violations in China.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New from March 4th: The information offer in ORF eins . OTS notification dated February 19, 2013, accessed November 10, 2018.
  2. ^ "ZiB 2" with a new face, "ZiB 1" with a new couple, many new ORF bosses , derstandard.at, 10 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Vospernik will head the ORF office in Rome , Austria Press Agency, October 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ The 2008 Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2016 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. , Concordia Press Club. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concordia.at
  5. ↑ Editor-in-chief Herbert Lackner is the journalist of the year , derstandard.at, December 15, 2009.
  6. ^ Felix Ermacora Human Rights Prize 2010 to Shirin Ebadi, press prize to Cornelia Vospernik. OTS - Original Text Service, June 15, 2010, accessed January 9, 2014 .

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SURNAME Vospernik, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach