Education

08/2003 – 12/2004
Master of Arts, New York University, USA

Magazine journalism concentration, Austrian Fulbright grantee

10/1994 – 06/2001         
Magister der Handelswissenschaften, (MBA level), Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
Specialization in development economics and management of small and medium enterprises, CEMS exchange student at Stockholm School of Economics (Jan. – June 1998)

1994             
High School degree, BG 13 Fichtnergasse, Vienna, Austria

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Professional Experience

WirtschaftsWoche, Handelsblatt publishing group, Düsseldorf, Germany - since 07/2006

Online Editor for wiwo.de, the online portal Germany’s best-selling business weekly WirtschaftsWoche (online: 220,000 unique users/month, print: 850,000 readers)

  • in charge of the “companies and markets”, the core section of the magazine
  • current beat: Germany’s automotive industry. As an online reporter, I managed to publish several pieces in the printed edition of WirtschaftsWoche.
  • in-house video specialist: creation, weekly recording and editing of “Tichys Totale“, a video editorial of WirtschaftsWoche’s editor-in-chief; creation and recording of “Gadget-Inspector”, wiwo.de’s tech video.
  • audio: creation and producing of wiwo hör-bar, a weekly “making of”-podcast providing background on this week’s major WirtschaftsWoche story.
  • dozens of background interviews and stories, e.g. for wiwo.de’s US election 2008 special, special on the global financial crisis, the planned and retracted sale of GM’s Opel division, …

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Austria Press Agency, Vienna, Austria – the national newswire service – 01/2006 – 06/2006

Reporter for the business news desk, 2 days/week

  • news story editing
  • press conferences coverage
  • breaking news coverage

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Industriemagazin, Vienna, Austria - monthly service magazine for industry leaders (circ.: 27,000) – 11/2005 – 06/2006

Freelance journalist for the magazine’s career and science sections

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GEWINN, Vienna, Austria – Austria’s best-selling monthly business magazine (circulation: 95,000) -01/2005 – 06/2006

Staff writer/reporter for the personal finance and career sections

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Time Inc., New York – magazine division of US media conglomerate Time Warner

Fortune Small Business magazine: best-selling US business magazine (circ.: 1 mio.) – 09/2004 – 12/2004

Editorial internship and subsequent freelance work

  • part-time while studying for my M.A. at NYU
  • several articles for FSB’s “Giving Back“ series, regular freelancer after the internship ended
  • contributor for FSB’s May 2005 cover story on companies helping people with disabilities

Fortune Magazine: the leading US business magazine (circulation: 919,000) 06/2004 – 08/2004

Summer editorial Internship

  • planned, researched and wrote a nine-page booklet on the history of Fortune’s 100 fastest-growing companies
  • analyzed the marketing challenges of energy drink giant Red Bull in the US market
  • wrote a column on investing in the US gaming industry

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GEWINN, Vienna, Austria – 04/2002 – 07/2003

Staff writer/reporter for the IT and career sections

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Die ZEIT, Hamburg, Germany – Germany’s reputed weekly newspaper – 09/2001 – 12/2001

Internship in the online editorial department

  • developed, recorded and edited an acoustic advent calendar that featured Christmas stories narrated by ZEIT writers
  • supervised online debates and forums as an editorial moderator
  • wrote features on German writers and the woes of the travel industry after 9/11
  • planned and conducted a comparison of publishing media web sites, presented the results at a meeting with the business manager

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt/Main - Germany’s best-known quality newspaper - 07/2001 – 08/2001

Internship, online editorial department, business section

  • researched and wrote over 50 articles in 6 weeks
  • scope: from features on car makers who produce less than 100 cars per years to an opinion piece on strategies how to make people pay for online content
  • freelance writer until Oct. 2002