Holger Stark

Until 1991 Holger Stark studied journalism in Munich and Berlin before he started working as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung. From 1993 until 1998 he studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin and besides his studies he continued working as a journalist for Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Radio Fritz […]

Gerlinde Tamerl

Gerlinde Tamerl, born 1978 in Innsbruck, is deputy managing director of Wagner’sche Buchhandlung. The art historian with a doctorate worked for fifteen years at Haymon Verlag as project manager and press spokesperson, among other positions. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as culture editor at the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Among other things, she is a guest […]

Galina Timchenko 

Galina Timchenko is the co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Meduza — the largest independent Russian publication released in Russian and English language. It is a media in exile that has been successfully operating for 8 years from Riga, Latvia. In April 2021, Russian authorities labeled Meduza as a ‘foreign agent,’ in March 2022 blocked its website and […]

Tanja Traxler

Tanja Traxler is head of the science department at the daily newspaper Der Standard. After studying quantum physics at the University of Vienna, research stays took her to the University of California/Santa Cruz (US), Twente University in Enschede (NL) and Churchill College Cambridge (UK), among others. Traxler has been science editor at the Standard since […]

Kilian Trotier

Kilian Trotier, 39, works as an editor at the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT. He is part of the “Christ & Welt” team and coordinates the project “ZEIT Sinn – Wofür leben wir?”, which deals with the big questions of life. He has been employed at DIE ZEIT since 2012, first as an editor in the […]

Klaus Unterberger

Klaus Unterberger, born in 1962, has headed the Public Value Competence Center of ORF since 2007, following academic and journalistic work (Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna; at ORF, among others, “Ohne Maulkorb,” “Argumente,” “Volksanwalt,” “Bürgeranwalt,” “Menschen&Mächte”). He is responsible for numerous measures of ORF quality assurance as well as for external and internal […]

Jacques Vagheni

Jacques Vagheni, 46, is a Congolese journalist. He heads the Collectif des Radios et Télévisions communautaires du Nord Kivu Coracon (Association of Community Radio and Television Stations of North Kivu Province) in the city of Goma. He is also the director of Radio Tayna, which is one of the most important media in Goma. Eastern Congo is a […]

Alois Vahrner

Alois Vahrner is one of the two editors-in-chief of the Tiroler Tageszeitung (TT).Vahrner was born on 5 December 1966 in Zams near Landeck. In 1988, he started at the Vienna branch of the Tiroler Tageszeitung as an editor in the business editorial department. In 1992, Vahrner moved to Innsbruck. After being appointed head of the […]

Nicole Valentini

Nicole Valentini is a graduate of the Master’s degree programmes in Media as well as Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck. As part of a seminar, she developed, together with other students, the journalistic scavenger hunt Paper Chase for the Innsbruck Journalism Festival. The idea and aim of the project was to bring journalism closer to all those interested, in a playful […]

Andrei Vazyanau

Andrei Vazyanau, born in Mariupol/Ukraine, lived and worked in Belarus, currently lives in Lithuania. D. in social anthropology from the University of Regensburg. Andrei Vazyanau, is an author and translator of publications in English, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Russian and German. Since 2018, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, European Humanitites […]

Nicola Weber 

Nicola Weber (*1973) studied architecture in Innsbruck, Vienna and the USA and works as a curator and cultural mediator at the interface of architecture, design, graphics and urban space in Innsbruck. Since 2019 she has been director of the Tyrolean design forum WEI SRAUM and is also a freelance journalist for cultural and architectural topics. Her articles […]

Céline Weimar-Dittmar 

Céline Weimar-Dittmar is a freelance journalist and has been fighting the climate crisis since she was young. Her goal is to make people experience the consequences of the crisis through personal stories. Céline worked for the German daily taz from 2019 to March 2023 and is now working on new new climate formats, especially podcasts and films.

Andrej Werth 

Andrej Werth has been an editor at the South Tyrolean weekly magazine ff since 2019. Before that, he worked – freelance and permanently – for Rai Südtirol, the daily newspaper Dolomiten and Südtirol Online. And before that he studied politics and history in Salzburg. Malicious tongues claim that he took his time with his studies. He says: […]

Bartosz T. Wieliński

Bartosz T. Wieliński, born in Katowice in 1978, is deputy editor-in-chief of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He studied journalism, political science and international relations at the Silesian University in Katowice and at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. From 2005 to 2009 he was the correspondent of “Wyborcza” in Berlin. He writes mainly about foreign […]

Zsolt Wilhelm

Zsolt Wilhelm, born in 1983, is head of Dienst Audio at STANDARD and heads the podcast department. In this function he is responsible for format development and all editorial contributions. This includes the research podcast “Inside Austria” in cooperation with SPIEGEL, the news podcast “Thema des Tages” (Topic of the Day) as well as thematic […]

Natascha Zeitel-Bank  

Natascha Zeitel-Bank studied sociology at the University of Mannheim in the field of European comparative social research and completed a doctoral program in political science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a focus on European integration. She is “Senior Lecturer” at the Institute for Media, Society and Communication (Faculty of Social and Political Communication) and teaches in the […]

Christina Zühlke

Christina’s research as journalist focuses on mainly two topics: “child abuse in church” and “police”. In 2021, her book Tatort Polizei – Gewalt, Rassismus und mangelnde Kontrolle (Crime scene police – Violence, racism and lack of control, C.H. Beck) was published, which she wrote together with Jan Keuchel. After a time as a reporter for the tagesschau […]