Reinhard Goweil

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Reinhard Göweil (born April 15, 1960 in Linz ) is an Austrian journalist . From 2009 to 2017 he was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung .

Life

Reinhard Göweil attended the Linz Social Academy. From 1984 to 1988 he was business editor for the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , in 1988/89 he was in charge of public relations at Chemie Linz AG. From 1989 to 1994 he wrote as a business editor for the daily newspaper Der Standard . He then headed the economics department of the daily newspaper Kurier . In 1996 he and Waltraud Langer were awarded the newly created Horst Knapp Prize .

In December 2009 he succeeded Andreas Unterberger as editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung . In 2014 his contract term was extended by five years. After Göweil was confronted with allegations of sexual harassment of a journalist, he was released on October 20, 2017. The management of the editorial office was taken over on an interim basis by the deputy editors-in-chief Thomas Seifert and Walter Hämmerle .

Göweil has been Vice President of the Business Journalists' Club since 2004 and was the media owner and publisher of the financial news magazine for economic policy, finance and capital markets, which was discontinued in 2010 and which he acquired after Horst Knapp's death . In 2018 he founded finanznachrichten.at, a news site for business and financial topics.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Media Days Vienna 2017: Reinhard Göweil ( Memento from October 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ Prof. Horst Knapp Prize . bankaustria.at, accessed on October 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Göweil: "What I did was wrong" , article by Anna-Maria Wallner in the daily newspaper "Die Presse", online version from October 21, 2017
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: ORF supervisor with expiry date, private television warrior, state newspaper . Article dated October 23, 2017, accessed October 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Göweil dismissed as editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung . OTS announcement of October 20, 2017, accessed October 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ derStandard.at: New Presidium in the Club of Business Journalists . Article dated May 25, 2004, accessed October 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ New specialist publication 'finanznachrichten' online . Article dated December 10, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Göweil, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz