Michael Nikbakhsh

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Michael Nikbakhsh (born July 20, 1970 in Stockerau ) is an Austrian business journalist .

Life

Nikbakhsh was born in 1970 to a Persian doctor and his Austrian wife. After attending the Lycée Français de Vienne , he began studying medicine . However, he then switched to studying interpreting for French and Russian.

Nikbakhsh wrote u. a. for Salzburger Nachrichten , WirtschaftsWoche , the business magazine trend and the weekly Format . He has been working for profil since 1999 . In 2004 he took over the management of the economic department.

He was voted “ Business Journalist of the Year ” ( The Austrian Journalist ) in 2005, 2009 to 2012 and 2014 . In 2008 he was named “Journalist of the Year” for his revelations in the context of the so-called Meinl affair. In 2009 he received the Horst Knapp Prize and in 2012 the Walther Rode Prize “for his outstanding research quality and communication skills, for the democratic-political relevance and explosiveness of his work as well as his 'ethical investigative journalism'” (together with Ulla Kramar-Schmid ). In 2015 and 2018 he won the journalist of the year election in the investigation category .

In 2018 he became a full member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) of the Center for Public Integrity (CPI).

Together with Klaus Oppitz he developed the political quiz Nobody calls us Mitzi , with which he premiered in October 2018 at the Vienna Rabenhof Theater .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulla Schmid and Michael Nikbakhsh receive the Walther Rode Prize . derStandard.at, September 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ derStandard.at - "Presse" editor-in-chief Nowak is journalist of the year . Article of December 16, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ diepresse.com: "ZiB 2" presenter Armin Wolf is journalist of the year . Article dated December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018.
  4. ^ Profile: Michael Nikbakhsh becomes a member of the ICIJ . Article dated June 5, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018.
  5. ^ ICIJ member Michael Nikbakhsh . Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  6. ^ "On the way in Austria" from October 8th from Lower Austria . OTS announcement of October 5, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018.
  7. ^ Rabenhof Theater Vienna: Michael Nikbakhsh and Klaus Oppitz . Retrieved October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nikbakhsh, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockerau