Maria Scholl is the new editor-in-chief of APA

Bruckenberger resigns from his APA positions in the course of applying for ORF editor-in-chief – For APA committees, Scholl is the “logical successor and reliable guarantor for the quality and digital transformation of the APA editorial office”

Maria Scholl is the new editor-in-chief of APA – Austria Press Agency. She succeeds Johannes Bruckenberger, who stepped down from his positions at APA in the course of applying for editor-in-chief of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). Scholl has been deputy editor-in-chief of APA since 2019, where she was previously managing editor as well as culture editor. Most recently, she was responsible for crucial structural and technological projects in the APA newsroom.

Clemens Pig, CEO of APA: “The new APA editor-in-chief is a role model for newsroom management in the agency journalism of the future. I am very pleased that we were able to obtain Maria and her internationally recognised agency and media expertise for this crucial and responsible position of leadership at APA and I extend my thanks to Johannes for his impeccable management of the APA editorial team over the past years.”

APA’s Chairman of the Board of Directors Hermann Petz and Supervisory Board Chairman Roland Weißmann congratulated Maria Scholl on her appointment as the “logical successor and reliable guarantor for the quality and digital transformation of the APA editorial office” and thanked Johannes Bruckenberger for “his successful work at the helm of the editorial office of APA in the past years.”

Maria Scholl expressed her gratitude for the confidence placed in her as well as her conviction that with their specific “profile of journalistic strengths and innovative power, news agencies are in demand, now especially. The APA editorial team ensures an uninterrupted supply of relevant, quality and independent reporting while at the same time pioneering a role in the digital transformation of the media environment.”

Maria Scholl (38) has been a member of the APA editorial team since 2010, where she worked in culture and science and, beginning in 2018, as news manager (chief of staff). In the APA editorial department, she was in charge of structural projects, the digital and user-centred development of news services as well as the development of a new branch of business in the area of consulting and training. Born in Vienna, she studied comparative literature and psychology and completed her doctorate in reading research methodology.

In addition to Scholl, the APA editorial board consists of her deputies, Katharina Schell and Werner Müllner, as well as the head of content business, Christian Kneil. Maria Scholl is the first woman to head the APA editorial team.