Rubina Möhring

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Rubina Möhring (born March 10, 1950 in Berlin ) is an Austrian journalist.

Life

She is the daughter of the lawyer Philipp Möhring and his wife Ruth, née Kießling. After graduating from the humanistic high school Hohenbaden in Baden-Baden, she took language studies in Cambridge, Geneva and Istanbul. This was followed by a degree in German, sociology in Freiburg im Breisgau, the history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on Southeast Europe in Vienna and Istanbul. Her doctorate took place at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on the relations between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from 1908 to 1912 as the prehistory of the First World War ("Turkish Vienna") .

In 1969 she moved to Vienna. There she got a job as editor of the Viennese daily newspaper Die Presse , then television editor in the information area of ​​the ORF as a documentarian, presenter , special correspondent in Southeastern Europe and chief editor in the information and science area. Until March 2010 she was editor-in-chief at ORF 3sat, responsible for the areas of culture and science, including the daily 3sat magazines Kulturzeit and nano . In the 1990s she was the chairman of the ORF women's committee and the initiator of the ORF kindergarten. Since 1999 she has been working as a university lecturer at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna and at the Danube University Krems as sponsor of the two-year post-graduate Rubina Möhring course in quality journalism . Thematic focus is on women in the media, freedom of the press and current media analyzes.

Rubina Möhring has been a freelance writer and journalist since 2010. She has two children and was married to Kuno Knöbl .

As part of her voluntary work to preserve the freedom of the press, she is the initiator of the Press Freedom Award - A Signal for Europe , which Reporters Without Borders Austria has been promoting annually for journalists in Eastern and Southeastern Europe since 2001.

Möhring is the author of sociopolitical books and articles as well as Vice President of the international human rights organization Reporters sans Frontières International .

Awards

In 2007, under the presidency of Rubina Möhring , Reporters Without Borders was awarded the Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna for her commitment to freedom of the press and diversity of opinion . The church newspaper writes: "To inform objectively about things that are also unpleasant, not to be intimidated by the powerful and to focus on media concentrations that can lead to one-sided information - these essential terms describe freedom of the press for Rubina Möhring." In 2014 she was awarded the Concordia Prize in the freedom of the press and information category.

Publications

  • Freedom of media and human rights in Iran Press freedom and human rights in Iran TV - talk with Manfred Nowak, UN Special Envoy for Torture Kulturzeit-mediathek, 2009, Kulturzeit.
  • The impact of media In: W. Benedikt, C. Gregory, J. Kozma, M. Nowak, C. Strohal, E. Theuermann (Ed.), 2009, Global Standards - Local Actions, 15 Years Vienna World Conference on Human Rights , Conference Proceedings of the International Expert Conference Held in Vienna, Intersentia, Mortsel, Belgium.
  • Head space on the roof Freiraum auf dem Dach In: P. Sellars, G. Bast, C. Reder, W. Resetarits (Ed.), 2009, Komsmopolitische Impulse - Das Integrationshaus in Vienna, Springer, New York, USA.
  • Dissident Miklós Haraszti - the new OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dissident Miklos Haraszti - the new OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Ö1, (ORF-Radio). March 29, 2004, 30 minute radio feature for Journal Panorama, Vienna, Austria.
  • Austria home alone - politics and the media after 2000 Austria alone at home - politics and media after the fall of the Wall, R. Möhring (Ed.), 2001, IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Turkish Vienna (dissertation), publisher Vienna; Munich: Herold, 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0219-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sunday: "Be who you really are!" ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Concordia Press Club: 2014 Prize Winners ( Memento from May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article from March 19, 2015, accessed on January 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Rubina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian television journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin