Alexandra Föderl-Schmid is head of news at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Since 2017, she has been SZ correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian territories, then a member of the editorial board. Previously, Föderl-Schmid was editor-in-chief for ten years and later also co-editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard and the news portal derStandard.at. She studied journalism, political science and history and wrote her doctorate on the dual broadcasting system in Germany. She is on the board of the Reuters Institute for the Study in Journalism in Oxford. She has been honoured several times: with the Austrian Kurt Vorhofer Prize for Political Journalism, the Constitution Prize and the Ari Rath Prize.