Ines Pohl

Ines Pohl ( born April 12, 1967 in Mutlangen ) is a German journalist. Since July 20, 2009, she is editor of the taz.

Life

Pohl's mother is a teacher, father of skilled workers. Ines Pohl participated in Mutlangen at meetings of the peace movement in the press cabin and in demonstrations against the deployment of Pershing II missiles.

After graduating from high school at the State High School building with home ( ABG- DG ), a boarding school with musischem focus in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Ines Pohl studied German and Scandinavian Studies at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. After completing her Master's degree in 1995, she worked as a women's representative at the Faculty of Philosophy. 2004/2005 she spent a year at Harvard University as a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. There, she met her future life partner.

She also began in the 1990s to work as a freelance journalist, including for radio ffn and various regional newspapers. In the Hessian / Lower Saxony general, she completed her internship and reached within ten years the position of head of the department policy. In 2008, she was a correspondent for the media group Ippen to Berlin. A year later, she was editor in chief of taz.

Taz- Editor in Chief

In February 2012, Pohl defended the imprint of a controversial comment on the nomination Joachim Gauck as President, with freedom of expression.

In August 2013 Pohl rejected the publication of an article entitled " Exempt human material " on pedophilia and green ideology from, because this journalistic standards have not enough and dismissed allegations that they have made a political decision in advance of the federal election of 2013.

After one of two employees of the Taz run on August 20, 2013 interview with the Federal Minister of Economics and FDP chairman Philipp Roesler has not been released by the FDP Press Office to publish, the Taz only the questions printed on September 9, 2013, in which Rösler was also asked how he Jump around with racist remarks. The objections raised by the press office of the FDP and a representative of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation accusation that Taz would touch on racial resentment, Pohl rejected.

Awards

2009 Ines Pohl was selected by a jury of media magazine for Journalist of the Year 2009 in the category "Newcomer " is selected.