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Alfred Worm (14 June 1945 – 4 February 2007) was an Austrian journalist, author and vocational high school teacher ("professor" in Austrian German).
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Alfred Worm (14 June 1945 – 4 February 2007) was an Austrian journalist, author and vocational high school teacher ("professor" in Austrian German).
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Career Worm was born in Gmünd, Lower Austria, and began his professional studies at HTL Mödling, an engineering school in Austria. He trained as an underground construction engineer, graduating in 1964. He worked nearly ten years as an engineer in the construction industry before he began to report on the dubious practices that he had observed within large construction firms. In 1973, Worm uncovered the famous Bauring-Skandals (building ring scandals). At this point he changed to become a full-time investigative reporter. He pursued the bribery and fraud affairs in large building projects in Austria. From 1974 - 1994 he was first an editor and then deputy editor-in-chief of profil, an Austrian news magazine. In 1980, he uncovered the AKH scandal, where a 1 billion schilling new hospital for Vienna programmed to begin construction in 1955 ended up being the most expensive hospital in Europe at 45,000,000,000 schillings. For this effort he received the Dr. Karl Renner journalism prize (Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis) in 1981. In the mid-1980s, he uncovered the hidden past of Kurt Waldheim in what came to be known as the Waldheim Affair. In 1985, Worm uncovered the Noricum scandal. Noricum, a subsidiary of Austria's largest state-run steel and engineering group,…
Alfred Worm a lăsat un gând
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Obituary from ORF in German "Journalistenlegende Alfred Worm heute Nacht überraschend gestorben" Newsroom.at: Nachrichten fürJournalisten 5 February 2007 in German