Georg Mascolo

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Mascolo during the 53rd MSC 2017

Georg Mascolo (born October 26, 1964 in Stadthagen ) is a German-Italian journalist . From 2008 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel . Since 2014 he has headed the newly created research network of the NDR , the WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He also works for ARD as a terrorism expert.

Life and career

Mascolo is the son of a German mother and a doctor of Italian German studies from Castellammare di Stabia on the Gulf of Naples . After training as a lawyer and notary assistant, he completed a traineeship at his home newspaper, the Schaumburger Zeitung .

As a freelancer at the private radio station FFN , he researched the casino affair in Hanover and got in touch with Stefan Aust , who brought him to Spiegel TV in 1988 . Among other things, Mascolo reported on the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification . With the cameramen Rainer März and Germar Biester, he reported from the east side of the Berlin border crossing Bornholmer Strasse about the historic moment when the GDR border guards opened the barrier without orders. The report is a document of contemporary history and was approved by the UNESCO into the World Soundtrack Awards added.

In 1992 Mascolo switched to the print edition of Spiegel to work as deputy head of the Berlin office. In 2000 he became head of the “Germany II” department before working as a political correspondent in the USA from 2004 onwards. In 2007 he was appointed head of the Berlin capital office together with Dirk Kurbjuweit .

Georg Mascolo as laudator at the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize 2013

On February 5, 2008, Mascolo became editor-in-chief of Spiegel together with Mathias Müller von Blumencron , with responsibility for the print edition changing weekly. On February 21, 2011, he assumed sole responsibility for the print edition. After rumors of continued disputes between the editors-in-chief who had been rivaling for years, both editors-in-chief were finally dismissed on April 9, 2013 with immediate effect.

On October 31, 2013, in Moscow , Mascolo spoke with the Green MP Hans-Christian Ströbele with Edward Snowden about his revelations in the NSA affair .

Mascolo has headed the newly created research network of NDR, WDR and Süddeutscher Zeitung since 2014 . For this work he was named Journalist of the Year in the “Politics” category in the same year because he showed his “entire talent as an outstanding researcher” and “in the role of the knowledgeable, calm analyst of the research results in a number of political (TV) Discussions “shone.

War of words

In his Tübingen lecture as part of the media lectureship on the subject of the war of words - fact, fake and the new power of lies , Mascolo urged journalists to admit mistakes and correct false reports. Kristine Keck quotes him in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that he has evaded this obligation for most of his professional life, like most other journalists . Journalists have ignored the threat to their credibility for too long. In his portrayal of fake news and propaganda techniques, Mascolo also emphasized the strengthening of the role of the state and, at the same time, the responsibility of internet companies and the media.

Memberships and functions

Private

Mascolo has both German and Italian citizenship. He is married to the Stern author Katja Gloger and lives in Hamburg . The couple have two adult twins.

Quote

“Journalism is indispensable in a democracy, it gives people the information they need to make their own decisions. Informing, not proselytizing, is the mission. Access to reliable information is a fundamental right and no less important than access to good education, health care or clean water. "

Fonts

  • War of words. Fact, fake and the new power of lies . Developed as part of the Tübingen media lectureship, Tübingen 2017.

Web links

Commons : Georg Mascolo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Mascolo: Since when has the IS been interested in Ramstein? Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Ulrike Simon: Interview with Georg Mascolo: “Breaking secrets is part of it”. Archived from the original on April 7, 2011 ; Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Georg Mascolo: The night the wall came down: "We are flooding now". In: Spiegel Online , November 5, 2004.
  4. ↑ Documentaries - The peaceful upheaval in the GDR and the fall of the wall: Ode to freedom. In: Chronicle of the Wall .
  5. ↑ Petra Rösgen, Henrike Girmond, Johanna Sänger: Exhibition openings : And then the wall was gone. In: Museum magazine online , No. 4/2010; Michael Hanfeld: World Document Heritage: Images that tell us something. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 13, 2011.
  6. ↑ Erich Wiedemann: The case of Stefan Aust. Retrieved March 1, 2011 .
  7. ↑ On our own behalf: Blumencron and Mascolo new editors-in-chief of Spiegel. In: Spiegel Online , February 5, 2008.
  8. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Lonely at the top. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 5, 2013, accessed on April 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ Kai-Hinrich Renner: A bang at the "Spiegel": editors-in-chief have to go. In: Abendblatt.de , April 5, 2013, accessed on April 9, 2013.
  10. ↑ On my own behalf: Georg Mascolo and Mathias Müller von Blumencron dismissed as Spiegel editors-in-chief. In: Spiegel Online , April 9, 2013, accessed April 9, 2013.
  11. ^ Ströbele meets Snowden in Moscow. ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tagesschau.de , October 31, 2013.
  12. ↑ Georg Mascolo becomes chief researcher In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , January 24, 2014
  13. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014
  14. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Georg Mascolo at the University of Tübingen: The power of lies. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ http://www.acgusa.org/index.php?section=events&evtid=102
  16. ↑ http://www.acgusa.org/index.php?section=events&evtid=102
  17. ↑ Georg Mascolo munzinger.de
  18. ↑ Interview: Dagmar von Taube: Interview: "Children want to be taken seriously" . November 29, 2009 ( welt.de [accessed May 19, 2019]).
  19. ↑ "The story has to be right". Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mascolo, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian journalist and former editor-in-chief of Spiegel
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadthagen