Hanna Kordik

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Hanna Kordik (* 1963 in Washington, DC ) is an American - Austrian business journalist .

Life

Kordik was born in Washington in 1963 as the daughter of a World Bank employee. She grew up in the USA, Ivory Coast , Austria and Kenya . After graduating from high school , she studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

She worked for the daily newspaper Kurier while she was still studying (completing a Magistra ) . In 1988 she came to the economic department of the daily newspaper Die Presse . In 1993 she switched to WirtschaftsWoche . A lawsuit brought against her by the industrialist Herbert Turnauer because of a cover story from 1994 was unsuccessful under criminal law and ended in a civil settlement. From 1998 she worked in the business department of the news magazine profil . In 2005 she went to the press again. Since 2013 she has headed the “Economist” department together with Gerhard Hofer and is responsible for the “Kordikonomy” column .

She is married and has two children.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Rainer Nowak: "Die Presse" Internal: New head for "Economist", new domestic department . DiePresse.com, January 30, 2013.
  2. Horst Knapp Prize for "Press" journalist Hanna Kordik . derStandard.at, June 6, 2014.