Richard Gutjahr

Richard Gutjahr (born 1973 in Bonn) is a German moderator, creator of mainstream media[1] and blogger. He attracted global media attention for covering the alleged terror attacks in Nice and Munich in mid-2016 with a mobile phone, and he "explained how basic mobile technology allowed him to cover the two attacks".[2]

Training and affiliations

Richard Gutjahr, 2015
Richard Gutjahr, 2015

Between 1993 and 1998, Gutjar was a student of the German School of Journalism (Deutschen Journalistenschule) in Munich. During this time he also studied politics and communication studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[3] He completed his studies with a degree in journalism. He took part in an exchange of the Centre de formation des journalistes of Paris and between 1998 and 1999 on a semester program of the American University in Washington, D.C.[4]

From 1992 to 1996, he worked as a news editor, live reporter and presenter for Radio Gong, followed from 1996 to 1999 with a stint at Bayern 3 following.[5] For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gutjahr worked as a freelancer and caricaturist. From January 1999, he spent five months as a trainee for the CNN office in Washington. He subsequently worked for the public television channel Das Erste and Bayerischer Rundfunk, as for programs such as Live aus dem Alabama.

Gutjahr is currently an employee of the chief of the Bavarian Television and moderator of Rundschau Night (Rundschau-Nacht).[6][7] From 14 May to 7 June 2012 Gutjahr developed a SocialTV project round show with alternating co-hosts, including Daniel Fiene, Sascha Lobo and Sandra Riess.[6][7] He also writes a weekly column since mid-2010 in the Abendzeitung.[8] He also writes for other newspapers, including the Berliner Tagesspiegel[9] and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[10]

Wait for the iPad

With his blog gutjahr.biz he first drew attention in April 2010, when he documented a 23-hour wait in line for an iPad from the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City.[8][11] At the same time, he became known as the world's first buyer of an iPad.

Coverage of the Egyptian Revolution

A wider audience he earned for his reportage from Cairo during the Egyptian revolution of 2011.[12] Here, Gutjahr decided spontaneously, and without a job, while staying in Israel, to travel to Cairo.[13]

Web platform against lobbyists

Gutjahr was co-initiator of LobbyPlag, a Web platform that set itself the goal to direct the influence of lobbyists on politicians in connection with the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation.[14] The research results, which may prove among other things that parliamentarians have written off large parts of their bills from lobbies, ensured international headlines.[15]

In Nice and Munich

On July 14, 2016 Gutjahr said[16] he was on his holiday and happened to be present during the attack in Nice.[17] He reported on Twitter and in the ARD night magazine (Nachtmagazin) and the Bayerischer Rundfunk. He made available to the WDR German television network a video that apparently shows the beginning of the attack; he decided to explicitly object to the publication of the material on the social networks, because he wanted to leave it to the transmitters as to which images should be shown.[18][19][20][21]

On July 22, 2016 Gutjahr was reporting live for the Tagesschau and other media about the shooting rampage at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum in Munich.[16] Originally en route to the Bayerischer Rundfunk, he said that he was alarmed by his daughter[22] about the incident and arrived as one of the first reporters at the scene.[23] His daughter Thamina Stoll twittered footage of the shooting, and was interviewed internationally.

His coincidental presence at events gave rise to conspiracy theories but Gutjahr explains them to be mostly related to antisemitism against his wife.[24][25]

Personal life

Gutjahr is married to the former Israeli Knesset member and ex-intelligence officer Einat Wilf since 2007.[26] Gutjahr has a son[27] (b 2010) and a daughter[28] (born 1994).

Awards

In 2006 he received jointly with Rundschau editorial director Peter Marten for reportage the Ernst Schneider Award for Business Journalism.[29] The newspaper Die Zeit named him in early 2012 the Networked Journalist of the Year 2011 Medium Magazin (media magazine) called him the 2011 "Newcomer of the Year".[30] In 2013, the Grimme Institute honoured Richard Gutjahr by nominating him for the first time in the history of the Grimme Online Awards, for the award for the personal power of a single person.[31]

Writings

References

  1. ↑ WDR Interview Richard Gutjahr 1LIVE Talk | 07.09.2016 | at 0:57 min
  2. ↑ Scott, Caroline. "How one reporter covered the attacks in Nice and Munich with a mobile phone". Daily Journalism. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Bayrische Landeszentrale für neue Medien: Kurz-Vita Richard Gutjahr (PDF; 33 kB), abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  4. ↑ Richard Gutjahr: Xing-Profil, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  5. ↑ Richard Gutjahr: Radio, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  6. 1 2 Richard Gutjahr, DJV-Fachtagung, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  7. 1 2 Wer präsentiert die Rundschau-Sendungen?
  8. 1 2 Richard Gutjahr: Von einem, der auszog, das Bloggen zu lernen In: t3n, 21. Februar 2012. Abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012.
  9. ↑ Lobbyismus: Mein persönliches Wurst-Erwachen, Tagesspiegel vom 26. Februar 2013, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2013.
  10. ↑ Israelische Piratenpartei: Schmuggler von Ideen, FAZ vom 13. September 2012, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2013.
  11. ↑ "7:15 PM – Nr. 1 (!)". gutjahrs blog (in German). 2010-04-03. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
  12. ↑ Ulrike Langer: Ein Lanze für den Unternehmerjournalismus: Richard Gutjahr in Kairo, 4. Februar 2011, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  13. ↑ Richard Gutjahr: Unterwegs nach Kairo, 30. Januar 2011, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  14. ↑ Blogpost, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2013.
  15. ↑ Blogpost, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2013.
  16. 1 2 Caroline Scott (2016-07-25). "How one reporter covered the attacks in Nice and Munich with a mobile phone" (in German). Mousetrap Media Ltd. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  17. ↑ ""Wir sahen, wie Leute getroffen wurden"" (in German). Hannoversche Allgemeine. 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  18. ↑ "Richard Guthahr, ARD Reporter, mit einem Augenzeugenbericht" (in German). ARD. 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-15. Video
  19. ↑ "Die Momente der Tragödie" (in German). ARD. 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-15. Video
  20. ↑ "Augenzeuge Gutjahr: "Der Lastwagen passte nicht ins Bild"". Spiegel online (in German). 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  21. ↑ Kurt Sagatz und Jochim Huber (2016-07-15). "Filmen oder helfen?". tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  22. ↑ WDR Interview Richard Gutjahr 1LIVE Talk | 07.09.2016 | at 19:16 min
  23. ↑ tagesschau.de. "Polizei: Verletzte und möglicherweise Tote bei Schüssen in München". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  24. ↑ Sueddeutsche Zeitung 6 September 2016 | Streit mit Youtube | Richard Gutjahr kämpft seit dem Münchner Amoklauf gegen Verschwörungstheorien
  25. ↑ WDR Interview Richard Gutjahr 1LIVE Talk | 07.09.2016 | at 29:52 min
  26. ↑ 14 COUPLES SAY "I DO" OR "I DO AGAIN" ATOP EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ON VALENTINE'S DAY at the Wayback Machine (archived July 10, 2011)
  27. ↑ "Labor MK Einat Wilf gives birth to baby boy". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.
  28. ↑ candid communications GmbH (2016-01-28). "So will Gutjahr den Journalismus retten". candid communications GmbH (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  29. ↑ Ernst-Schneider-Preis: Preisträger (PDF; 53 kB), abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  30. ↑ Franziska Bulban, Alexandra Rojkov, Ulrich Stock, Heinrich Wefing, Falk Lüke, Jutta Schein, Evelyn Finger, Stefan Schmitt, Karsten Polke-Majewski, Khue Pham: Unsere Internet-Top-Ten, zeit.de, 3. Januar 2012, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2012
  31. ↑ "Grimme", abgerufen am 26. Juli 2013.
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