Alexandra Föderl-Schmid
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (born 30 January 1971)[1] is an Austrian journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Biography
[edit]Born in Haslach an der Mühl, Upper Austria, Föderl-Schmid studied at the University of Salzburg,[2] followed by a doctorate in Communications Studies, also from the University of Salzburg.[3]
Föderl-Schmid began at Austrian newspaper Der Standard in 1990 and was the newspaper's Germany correspondent and Brussels-based European Union correspondent.[4]
She served as editor-in-chief of Der Standard from 2007 until 2017.[4]
Föderl-Schmid ended her work for Der Standard at the end of August 2017. From the beginning of November 2017 until the end of June 2020, she was the correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel. She has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief at SZ since 15 July 2020. She temporarily withdrew from day-to-day operations on 5 February 2024 pending clarification of the plagiarism allegations against her.
The Right-wing platform "Nius" puplished incorrect accusations Föderl-Schmid had plagiated her dissertation and in her professional career she had also taken text passages from the reports of other daily newspapers in numerous named articles without indicating this.[5] On 8 February 2024, the "SZ" editorial team announced that a high ranked team of former "Spiegel" editor-in-chief Steffen Klusmann were to investigate the allegations.[6] In this time she had a personal breakdown and was reported missing for a week.[7] In May 2024 the team mainly exonerated Föderl-Schmid of the allegations. In some cases the adoption of text passages from agency material were not identified as such. The team said "no violations of journalistic standards" were identified.[8]
Her other activities include:
- Re-Imagine Europa, Member of the Advisory Board[9]
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), Member of the Advisory Board[10]
- European Press Prize, Member of the panel of judges since 2014.[11]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2005 – Austrian Press Agency Alfred Geiringer Fellowship, Reuters Institute
References
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- ^ "Standard: Föderl-Schmid wird Co-Herausgeberin". Wiener Zeitung (in German). 28 August 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
- ^ "Der Standard Editor-in-Chief Tells IPI Readership Up as 'Readers Turn To News They Can Trust'". IPI World Congress 2010. International Press Institute. 2010. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
- ^ Advisory Board: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ).
- ^ a b "Alexandra Föderl-Schmid". World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
- ^ Grimberg, Steffen (2024-04-12). "„SZ", Föderl-Schmidt und Nius: Übers Stöckchen springen". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000206585/ex-spiegel-chefredakteur-untersucht-vorwuerfe-gegen-foederl-schmid
- ^ "Alexandra Föderl-Schmid: "Ich brauche noch Ruhe und Erholung"". www.puls24.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-24.
- ^ "Föderl-Schmid kehrt als Nachrichtenchefin zur Süddeutschen Zeitung zurück". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ Advisory Board Re-Imagine Europa.
- ^ Advisory Board: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ).
- ^ "Alexandra Föderl-Schmid". European Press Prize. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
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