Otto Ranftl

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Otto Ranftl (born August 7, 1954 , † April 6, 2014 ) was an Austrian journalist.

Life

After working as a journalist for the Arbeiter-Zeitung , which was discontinued on October 31, 1991, Ranftl was an editorial member of the Vienna daily Der Standard from June 1990 until his death . He was initially head of the chronicle editorial department, since 2007 also the newspaper’s reader representative , and since 2010 head of the editorial department. The then editor-in-chief, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid , described Ranftl in her obituary published on April 7, 2014 as the silent center of Standard s.

In a text about the media's fear of their mistakes, Ranftl was remembered on the website of radio station Ö1 in 2018 :

At "Standard" Otto Ranftl was a kind of reading ombudsman until his death: "Every week he found enough mistakes to explain them linguistically brilliantly in his weekend errata column - or to excuse them", wrote the editor-in-chief at the time and inventor of this function , Alexandra Föderl-Schmid. With Ranftl, the column died too.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Standard" editor Otto Ranftl has passed away. The standard . April 7, 2014, accessed April 11, 2018.
  2. ^ The silent center of STANDARD: An obituary for Otto Ranftl. In: derstandard.at. April 7, 2014, accessed April 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ranftl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1954
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2014