Vienna (OTS) – Clara Akinyosoye, MA was appointed by ORF General Director Mag. Roland Weißmann at the suggestion of ORF editor-in-chief of magazines and service broadcasts Mag. Lisa Totzauer as the new head of the ORF minority editorial team and thus in charge of the “Heimat Fremde Heimat” program.
ORF General Director Mag. Roland Weißmann: “I congratulate Clara Akinyosoye on her new area of responsibility and am pleased that she, as head of the TV magazine ‘Heimat Fremde Heimat’, is an extremely competent woman at the head of the ORF minority editorial team.”
Clara Akinyosoye, MA: “Being entrusted with the management of the ORF minority editorial team is a great responsibility. In the spirit of an ORF for everyone, we want to reach people with and without a migration background – linearly, digitally and multimedia. That’s why I would like to work together with the team to ensure that our content is even closer to everyday life and the realities of people’s lives in a multi-ethnic society. An important and beautiful task that I’m really looking forward to.”
Clara Akinyosoye, born in Vienna in 1988, studied journalism and communication science as well as journalism and new media in Vienna. Akinyosoye was editor-in-chief of the association for intercultural media work, M-MEDIA, and headed the integration page in the “Presse” (2010 to 2012). She later ran “fresh”, the first lifestyle magazine for black people in Austria. From 2014 she worked at ORF at religion.ORF.at, initially as an online editor, and later as a multimedia editor in the ORF’s religion and ethics department. For “kreuz und quer” in 2022 she designed the TV documentary “Sünde Kirche” about abuse and abuse prevention in the Roman Catholic Church. For the documentary “Love, Happiness and God – This is how Austria believes” (2023), she spoke to people in the nine federal states about the existential questions in life. Clara Akinyosoye has received several awards, most recently in 2021 with the Prelate Leopold Ungar Recognition Prize for “The Burden of a Family of Nazi Perpetrators”.