For his journalistic investigative work, Christoph Köttl received an Emmy in the USA in 2019 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Now his hometown is also honoring him: Schwanenstadt’s Mayor Doris Staudinger (ÖVP) presented Köttl with the Municipality’s Great Badge of Honor. “We are proud when a Schwanenstadt resident makes such a career in the USA and we are happy that he always likes to visit his home country,” said Staudinger at the ceremony.
Christoph Köttl works as a “Visual Investigations Journalist” and is considered a specialist in the evaluation of satellite images. Together with the New York Times investigative team, he was able to show in a video that a poison gas attack in Syria that killed 34 people was not carried out by rebels, as the regime had claimed, but by the Syrian army.
His team of 13 also proved in several articles that the US army accidentally killed ten civilians in the Afghan capital Kabul in a drone attack in August 2021. “We researched for two weeks and were able to prove that the version of the Pentagon (US Department of Defense, note) was wrong,” said Köttl in the OÖN interview at the time. “That’s what visual investigation is: holding those in power accountable with visual evidence.” Köttl has been with the New York Times since 2017. After graduating from high school, he studied history and political science in Vienna and in 2003 performed a memorial service in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He later studied in Washington at the renowned Johns Hopkins University and joined the human rights organization Amnesty International in 2007. There he spent ten years developing a program on the subject of “technology and human rights” and continued his education to become an expert in the analysis of aerial photographs.
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