Thomas Prenner New editor-in-chief of the Kurier Futurezone

Thomas Prenner is the new editor-in-chief of the Kurier Tech portal Futurezone with July 1. The long -time editor and previous deputy follows Claudia Zettel, who was eliminated from the company by mutual agreement in the middle of the year. Kurier managing director Richard Grasl announced this to the editorial team on Thursday.

Thomas Prenner has been an employee in the Kurier-Medienhaus since 2010, and in 2010 he moved to the Futurezone editorial team, which the KURIER had acquired from ORF as part of a bidding process. Since 2016, Prenner has been the deputy of Zettel as editor -in -chief of the future zone.

The Kurier Futurezone has taken over from ORF after taking over from ORF Developed into a leading portal for technology issues and recently contributed to the success of the Kurier roof mark portfolio with around 500,000 unique clients and 2,000,000 visitors per month. In addition, the editorial team of the futurezone designs current contributions for the courier on the subject of tech, research, technological solutions against climate change and space technology.

The new futurezone editor-in-chief Thomas Prenner about his new task: “Especially in times when the smartphone and artificial intelligence have enormous influence on our lives, it is important to get classification and orientation in these areas. My goal is to offer exactly that with the futurezone. And the fun that modern technology offers is not neglected.”

KURIER managing director Richard Grasl adds: “The technology has adopted large parts of our lives. From the smartphone to banking, the lawn mower or the control of the house. These topics are priority for us in the Kurier media house. Thomas Prenner is the ideal occupation of translating the latest technology together with the editorial team as an end customer and reader. ”

Thomas Prenner was born in Lockenhausen in Burgenland in 1987. Since 2016 he has been the deputy editor -in -chief of the future zone.