The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 196 Journalists, 1 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 30th most number of Journalists behind El Salvador, and Barbados.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Journalists of all time. This list of famous Austrian Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ernst Haas (1921 - 1986)
With an HPI of 50.29, Ernst Haas is the most famous Austrian Journalist. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer. During his 40-year career Haas trod the line between photojournalism and art photography. In addition to his coverage of events around the globe after World War II Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were carried by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He served as president of the cooperative Magnum Photos. His book of volcano photographs, The Creation (1971), remains one of the most successful photography books ever published, selling more than 350,000 copies.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Austrian journalists born between 1921 and 1921. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Austrian journalists include Ernst Haas.
