Alexandra Föderl-Schmid

Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (born 30 January 1971)[1] is an Austrian journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung.

From the beginning of November 2017 until the end of June 2020, she was the correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel.

She temporarily withdrew from day-to-day operations on 5 February 2024 pending clarification of the plagiarism allegations against her.

The Right-wing platform "Nius" puplished incorrect accusations Föderl-Schmid had plagiated her dissertation and in her professional career she had also taken text passages from the reports of other daily newspapers in numerous named articles without indicating this.

In some cases the adoption of text passages from agency material were not identified as such.