ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM 2023

The „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“ was established on the basis of a private initiative to honour journalists who have made outstanding contributions to critical reporting on flight, expulsion and asylum that is committed to upholding human rights, in the spirit of the renowned former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post who died in January 2017. A jury of experts chaired by Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue and close confidant of Ari Rath, unanimously selected Noa Landau and Christa Zöchling for the „Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism“ in 2023.

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.
The laudatory speech was held by Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Christa Zöchling is an Austrian journalist and publicist. From 1992 to 2023, she worked for the news magazine profile active.
Zöchling studied history and German language and literature in Graz and Vienna. She taught German courses for foreigners at the University of Vienna and worked on contemporary history projects. In 1989 she joined the Labour newspaper (AZ,) shortly after it was sold by the SPÖ and taken over by Hans Schmid. After the cessation of AZ At the end of October 1991, Zöchling worked briefly for the Courier and was finally appointed in 1992 as domestic policy editor of profile committed.
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.
The laudatory speech was held by Fritz Hausjell, media historian and president of Reporters Without Borders.

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