{"id":2682,"date":"2021-07-14T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/ari-rath-preis-fuer-kritischen-journalismus-2021"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:27:42","slug":"ari-rath-prize-for-critical-journalism-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/ari-rath-preis-fuer-kritischen-journalismus-2021","title":{"rendered":"Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201eAri Rath Prize for Critical Journalism\u201c was established on the basis of a private initiative to honour journalists, in the spirit of the renowned former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post who passed away in January 2017, who have earned distinction in their work for reporting on flight, displacement, and asylum in a critical manner committed to upholding human rights.<br \/>\nA 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 <strong>Thomas Seifert<\/strong> for the \u201eAri Rath Prize for Critical Journalism\u201c 2021.<br \/>\nThe \u201eAri Rath Honour Award\u201c was unanimously <strong>Gideon Levy<\/strong> recognised.<br \/>\nThe award ceremony took place on 21 June 2021 at the Bruno Kreisky Forum.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thomas Seifert<\/strong> <\/em>is known to many readers as a foreign policy expert and economics specialist. The current deputy editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung previously travelled to numerous crisis regions of the world as a reporter for News, but also for Welt am Sonntag and the Sunday Telegraph and has written impressive reports: whether from the Ebola ward of the hospital in Gulu, Uganda, in 2000, or from Sierra Leone about child soldiers or the war in Chechnya. He reported courageously and with commitment from Afghanistan and in 2003 from the Iraq war in the midst of the US bombardment.<br \/>\nIn addition to the overall assessment of the crisis situation, Seifert always places the fate of the people affected at the centre of his articles, reports and commentaries. It should also be added that he always emphasises the human perspective of the individuals plagued by wars, flight, displacement and natural disasters, thus giving a voice to the persecuted in this world.<br \/>\nThe laudatory speech for the award winner was given by <strong>Oliver Rathkolb<\/strong>, Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and member of the jury.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gideon Levy<\/strong><\/em> is a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982 and was deputy editor of the newspaper for four years. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the past 25 years, and writes political editorials for the paper.Levy received the Euro-Med Journalism Prize in 2008 and the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Union of Journalists Prize in 1997; and the Association of Human Rights in Israel Prize for 1996; in 2016, together with Bethlehem Lutheran pastor Mitri Raheb, the Olof Palme Prize for \u201ehis struggle against occupation and violence\u201c. His new book \u201eThe Punishment of Gaza\u201c has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.<br \/>\nThe laudatory speech for the award winner was given by <strong>Alexandra F\u00f6derl-Schmid<\/strong>, deputy editor-in-chief of the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung and herself an Ar Rath Award winner.<\/p>\n<p>The musical framework was provided by <strong>Isabel Frey<\/strong> \/\/ Revolutionary Yiddish Music \/\/ Vienna<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank <strong>VIENNA ENERGY<\/strong> for their friendly support.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2683,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2682","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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