Mercedes Riederer

Mercedes Riederer (October 2010)

Mercedes Riederer (* 1952 in Munich ) is a German journalist .

Life

Mercedes Riederer began her journalistic career as a 16-year-old student at Rottaler Anzeiger . After graduating from high school, she studied French for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris . She then went to the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich for two years , worked as a freelancer for Südwestfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and studied French and Spanish at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1978 she became a permanent editor at Zündfunk , the BR's youth radio. In 1985 she became deputy director of the DJS, but continued to work as a freelance editor and presenter for the BR news program Welt am Morgen .

In 1994 she was given the management and management of the DJS. This made her the first woman in Germany to head a journalism school. During this time she co-founded the umbrella association of European journalism schools (EJTA) and the European Journalism Center (EJC) in Maastricht , of which she has been a member since 1999.

Since March 2002, Riederer has been editor-in-chief of radio at BR and head of the Politics and Current Affairs department (today's name: program area B5 current - politics and economy). She retired at the end of March 2017.

In 2011 Mercedes Riederer was a member of the jury for the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists . She was also represented on the radio jury for the journalists' award for civic engagement of the Robert Bosch Stiftung . For ten years she was an honorary member of the board of the PressClub Munich .

Awards

• In 2010 she received the journalism award of the City of Munich .

• In July 2011 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

• In 2018 she received the Hedwig Dohm Certificate from the Association of Women Journalists (jb) for her life's work .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Board of directors | European Journalism Center (EJC). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 9, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 (American English). 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.  
2. ^ Guest in the studio: Mercedes Riederer ( Memento from January 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive ). Telekolleg MultiMedial | Knowledge & Education | Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 3, 2010
3. ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: BR Hörfunk: editor-in-chief Mercedes Riederer retires | BR.de . March 15, 2017 ( br.de [accessed April 25, 2017]).
4. ↑ Radio - Jury - Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 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. 
5. ^ Robert Bosch Stiftung - Radio Jury ( Memento from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Jury statement
7. ↑ Personnel: Mercedes Riederer confirmed . BR.de, January 26, 2012