Juan Moreno (journalist)

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Juan Moreno (2019)

Juan Moreno (born October 6, 1972 in Huércal-Overa , Almería province , Spain ) is a Spanish journalist and writer who grew up in Germany. He works for the news magazine Der Spiegel . In 2018 he uncovered manipulations by his colleague Claas Relotius .

Life

Juan Moreno is the son of Andalusian farmers who emigrated to Germany in the 1970s and worked as guest workers in a tire factory in Hanau . Moreno studied economics at the University of Konstanz , the University of Florence and the University of Cologne and graduated from the German School of Journalism .

Moreno initially worked as an editor for talk shows for ARD , as a radio host for West German Broadcasting and as a television host for the public television broadcaster Phoenix . From 2000 to 2007 he worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , whose weekend supplement appeared with his column “Von mir aus”. He has been a reporter for the news magazine Der Spiegel since 2007 . His main focus was initially on the areas of sport and society. As a book author, he has presented a selection of his columns and a biography of the sports official Uli Hoeneß . His novel Cindy loves me not , written with Jochen-Martin Gutsch , was filmed by Hannah Schweier in 2010 and broadcast on ZDF in 2011, also under the title Cindy loves me not . Moreno has been writing at "Spiegel" since 2019, primarily for the international department, and since 2020 he has moderated the international podcast "Eight Billion".

Juan Moreno is married and has four daughters.

Uncovering tampering by a colleague

On December 19, 2018, Der Spiegel announced through its editor-in-chief Ullrich Fichtner that the Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius , who has received numerous journalist awards, had "manipulated his own stories on a large scale". The forgeries were uncovered after Juan Moreno, who had worked with Relotius on the Jaeger's border report , noticed inconsistencies in the text in November 2018, checked information and turned to the head of the department with his suspicions. Because Der Spiegel did not initially believe his allegations, Moreno researched his colleague Relotius in the USA at his own expense. The editorial management was difficult to convince, initially stuck to the multiple award winner Relotius and the department management told Moreno that the case would have consequences for either Relotius or Moreno. In a later interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Moreno explained: “The story of Relotius ended with a shot fired by the border guards. I only got this conclusion in the second draft of the text. If I'm there someone potentially shooting Mexicans, I definitely won't mention that in my second draft of the text. That's probably more my starting point. "

At the end of March 2019, it was announced that Moreno was working on a book on the Relotius case entitled A Thousand Lines of Lies. The Relotius system and German journalism appeared in autumn 2019 and its film rights have already been granted. In May 2019 Moreno was awarded the Lighthouse Prize for 2019.

Moreno saved the mirror for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

For his services to these revelations, Moreno was awarded the title “ Journalist of the Year ” by Medium Magazin in December 2019 .

Publications (chronological selection)

Web links

Commons : Juan Moreno (journalist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Journalist: Moreno, Juan , website of Bayerischer Rundfunk , February 13, 2012, accessed on December 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Juan Moreno, DER SPIEGEL: Juan Carlos: My King, the Embarrassing Uncle - Podcast by Juan Moreno - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Juan Moreno: Mein fremdes Land , Der Spiegel 2012, No. 31, pp. 56-60, accessed on December 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Juan Moreno , imprint from Spiegel Online , accessed on December 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ SPIEGEL imprint , spiegel.de, accessed on July 15, 2020
  6. ↑ Listening tip: “Spiegel” starts the international podcast “Eight Billion” with Juan Moreno. , turi2.de, accessed on July 15, 2020
  7. ↑ 180 Juan Moreno - Pulse. Why the balancing act between authoritarian and politically correct upbringing is sometimes too great daily.spiegel.de, accessed on December 20, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Fraud case Claas Relotius: "Spiegel" reporter Moreno was apparently threatened with expulsion . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 25, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Ullrich Fichtner : Manipulation by reporters: SPIEGEL reveals fraud in its own house . In: Spiegel Online . December 19, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 19, 2018]).
  10. ^ Agence France-Presse : Der Spiegel says top journalist faked stories for years . In: The Guardian . December 19, 2018, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed December 19, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Interview by Ralf Wiegand: I knew he was lying . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 22, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Christian Meier: "I'm afraid the 'mirror' has lost its essence" , WeltN24, September 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ According to the FAZ report, film rights have already been secured: Relotius affair comes to the cinemas , meedia.de, published and accessed on March 29, 2019
  14. ↑ Michael Hanfeld : How a reporter saved the "Spiegel" . FAZ, September 17, 2019, No. 216, p. 9
  15. ↑ Ralf Wiegand: Look, a hero. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Juan Moreno is Journalist of the Year 2019 , mediummagazin.de, accessed on December 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Moreno, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Spanish journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Huércal-Overa , Almería Province , Spain