ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM 2023

ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM 2023

Exile, flight, expulsion

Greeting: Oliver Rathkolb, historian and lawyer
Jury's Reasoning: Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, Secretary General of the Kreisky Forum

Prize winner Noa Landau, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz
Introducer: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Prize winner Christa Zöchling, Journalist and author
Laudator Fritz Hausjell, Reporters Without Borders

The „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“ was established on the basis of a private initiative in memory of the renowned former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, who passed away in January 2017. The prize aims to honour journalists who have excelled in their work with critical reporting on flight, displacement, and asylum, whilst upholding human rights. A jury of experts, chaired by Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, the Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and a close confidante of Ari Rath, has unanimously nominated Noa Landau and Christa Zöchling for the 2023 „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“.

With the kind support of Vienna Energy

Noa Landau is deputy editor-in-chief of Haaretz, the country's oldest leading daily newspaper, and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Previously, she was the newspaper's news director and editor of the English edition of Haaretz. Before joining Haaretz in 2009, Landau worked as a news reporter and editor for various Israeli news outlets, including Galei-Tzahal, Channel 10, and Maariv, and was a founding member of the country's first women journalists' forum.
In 2016, she was a Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute, sponsored by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she researched the rise of news blackouts in Israel.

Christa Zöchling is an Austrian journalist and publicist. From 1992 to 2023, she worked for the news magazine profil.
Zöchling studied history and German studies in Graz and Vienna. She gave German courses for foreigners at the University of Vienna and worked on contemporary history projects. In 1989, she joined the Arbeiterzeitung (AZ) as an intern, shortly after it was sold by the SPÖ and taken over by Hans Schmid. After the AZ ceased publication at the end of October 1991, Zöchling briefly worked for the Kurier and was finally hired by profil in 1992 as a domestic policy editor.
Zöchling primarily describes Austrian domestic politics and repeatedly addresses the topic of right-wing populism. She has published two standard works on Jörg Haider in book form and occasionally writes for anthologies and other publications, such as Emma. After Zöchling described FPÖ sympathisers in the 7 September 2015 edition of Profil as „the ugliest people in Vienna, ill-formed shapeless bodies, straw-like, dull hair, without style, unkempt, tight glitter t-shirts, tracksuit bottoms, leggings. Spotty skin. Bad teeth, worn-out shoes“, profil.at was reprimanded by the Austrian Press Council for violating point 7 of the Code of Honour for the Austrian Press (protection against generalised defamation and discrimination).
Zöchling regularly gives lectures, for example in the Gender Studies department at the University of Innsbruck.