“Presse” editor Köksal Baltaci is the sole recipient of this year’s “Press Prize for outstanding journalistic work in the interest of the healthcare system” from the Chamber of Physicians in Vienna.
The next prestigious award for Köksal Baltaci: The “Presse” editor will be awarded the “Press Prize for outstanding journalistic work in the interest of the healthcare system” from the Chamber of Physicians in Vienna. The ceremonial award ceremony for the journalism award will take place at the end of May, as was announced on Friday.
“In his contributions, Köksal Baltaci analyzes a wide range of important health policy topics – from the rapidly growing private health sector to possible paths to effective patient management in the public health system to the requirements that school doctors have to face today in the growing metropolis of Vienna,” says Johannes Steinhart, President of the Chamber of Physicians in Vienna, in the justification for the award. “As a highly competent, profiled health journalist, Baltaci, on the one hand, gets to the heart of complex topics and connections in a clear and understandable way. On the other hand, he provides comprehensible chains of argument and highlights open or inadequately answered health policy questions.”
Köksal Baltaci has been working in the domestic department of the “Presse” since 2011. During this time he received a number of prestigious awards, including the “Industry Journalism Prize”, the Media Prize of the Austrian Pain Society (ÖSG), the Press Prize of the Austrian Society for Pulmonology (ÖGP), the Media Prize of the Austrian Society for Anaesthesiology, Reanimation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI) and the WINFRA journalism prize of the Wiener Stadtwerke.
The industry magazine “Österreichs Journalist:in” named him “Journalist of the Year” several times, most recently in 2025 in the Chronicle category. In 2020 he was also named “Corona Explainer of the Year”. Stays abroad on prestigious research grants took him to Washington DC, New York City, Seattle, Istanbul and Ankara, among others. (ed.)
