Holger Schmidt (business journalist)

Holger Schmidt (born September 25, 1966 ) is a German business journalist .

Life

Schmidt grew up in the Westerwald . As a high school graduate he worked for the " Rhein-Zeitung ". From 1987 Schmidt studied economics . After graduating, he worked at the chair for developing country research at the University of Giessen , where he researched environmental economics and received his doctorate in 1997 with a dissertation on the international distributional effects of climate protection .

Schmidt then worked as a business editor for the FAZ , where he was responsible for the Internet, the environment, energy and video games as well as the weekly special "Netzwirtschaft" until the end of 2011 and coordinated the cooperation between the newspaper and the Internet editorial team in the FAZ's online presence.

In 2011, his blog “Netzökonomie” was named the best business blog.

In 2012 he switched to Focus . In 2017 he switched to the Handelsblatt as a columnist for digital economics.

Web links

• "Netzökonom-Blog"
• "Netzökonomie" blog at Focus Online (articles until October 2013)
• Detailed portrait by t3n

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doctorate: International distributive effects of climate protection
2. ^ "Review2" of the dissertation - Nov. 10, 1997
3. ↑ Press release "Golden Blogger 2011" in Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 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.  
4. ↑ Holger Schmidt's network economy blog starts on FOCUS.de ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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