Nicola Kuhrt

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Nicola Kuhrt (born November 24, 1974 in Haan , Rhineland) is a German journalist .

Career

Nicola Kuhrt attended Vogelsang grammar school in Solingen . After graduating from high school in 1994, she studied German, sociology and new literary history in Wuppertal. She volunteered at the Westdeutsche Zeitung (WZ) in Düsseldorf, built up the science department of the WZ and wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , DIE WELT , Kölner Stadtanzeiger and the Financial Times Deutschland . From 2008 she wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Die Zeit on health policy issues, new drugs and clinical studies. From January 2012 she worked as an editor at SPIEGEL ONLINE (science department), from April 2012 to August 2014 she was deputy department head. From October 2015 to March 2017 she was editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung online , but then wanted to "face new challenges".

Nicola Kuhrt is a founding member of the "Medien-Doktor" project, which has been evaluating medical journalistic articles in print, TV, radio and online media several times a week since 2010 according to defined criteria. The intention is that readers should get a complete picture of a medical therapy, type of treatment, medical product or diagnostic test.

In 2012 she founded the blog "Datenlese" with the Spiegel data journalists Maximilian Schäfer and Kurt Jansson, as well as Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow Friedrich Lindenberg, which aims to create connections between science and politics.

In May 2013, together with Peter Wensierski , she published the research "Cheap Test Track" in Spiegel magazine, in which the secret business of Western pharmaceutical companies in the GDR was revealed. The article led to a current hour in the Bundestag , Health Minister Daniel Bahr (FDP) then stopped the destruction of medical files in all affected eastern clinics. A team led by historian Volker Hess at the Institute for Medical History at the Charité in Berlin has since examined the tests on more than 50,000 patients in more than 50 GDR clinics. The establishment of a patient consultation is planned.

2017 she founded the online magazine with her fellow journalists Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup MedWatch , which critically with pseudomedical apart sets themes and dubious promises of salvation. The journalists intend to use crowdfunding to develop the project into an independent digital magazine.

Since 2015 Nicola Kuhrt has chaired the jury of the Memento Journalist Prize, which is awarded by Doctors Without Borders , Bread for the World , the BUKO Pharma Campaign and the German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Aid. Nicola Kuhrt has been a member of the board of the science press conference since March 2015 .

Prizes and awards

Works

  • Why doesn't the woodpecker get a headache? Secrets of everyday life and their amazing explanations. Dumont Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-6118-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Best of Science Journalism. In: Medium. Robert Bosch Stiftung, accessed on November 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ New editor-in-chief for DAZ online ( memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de from October 13, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2015
  3. ↑ New editors-in-chief for DAZ.online . In: DAZ.online . April 3, 2017 ( deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de [accessed April 26, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Media doctor.
  5. ↑ Data reading.
  6. ^ Nicola Kuhrt, Peter Wensierski: Cheap test track. In: Der Spiegel. May 13, 2013. (about the secret tests of western pharmaceutical companies in the GDR)
  7. ^ Federal government resolves research project to clarify pill tests in the GDR. In: Spiegel online.
  8. ↑ NDR: "MedWatch" fights against fakes with facts. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ MedWatch - A blog exposes false "promises of salvation" on the internet. February 10, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  10. ^ Memento Journalist Award .
  11. ↑ Nicola Kuhrt: Shot in the eye. In: The time . about the battle for Lucentis and Avastin
  12. ↑ Research award goes to Nicola Kuhrt (FAS) ( memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Wissenschaftsjournalismus.org from June 6, 2009, accessed on November 14, 2015
  13. ↑ Prize for Nicola Kuhrt who tackled taboo subject of rationing cancer therapies, Cancer World, Cancerworld ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ medien-doktor.de , the German Health News Review
  15. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2013: Medium Magazin
  16. ↑ Journalists of the Year 2015: Medium Magazin
  17. ↑ #netzwende. Accessed November 1, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ GWUP - Die Skeptiker - Carl Sagan Prize 2019 for MedWatch. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhrt, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan , Rhineland