Frank Donovitz

Freelance lecturer at the Department of Communication Science

Short CV

Frank Donovitz, born in 1968, has been a reporter at STERN's capital city office since 2023. Previously, he was Senior Manager in the management division of RTL NEWS as well as Chairman of the General Works Council of Gruner + Jahr for eight years and Deputy Chairman of the Group Works Council of RTL Germany for a time. From 1998 to 2014, he worked as a political and business editor and domestic correspondent for STERN and DIE WELT. He has received several awards for his journalistic work, including the Helmut Schmidt Prize. He has also taught Journalism and Media Economics at various universities and at the Cologne School of Journalism. He joined the financial magazine CASH as a trainee in 1997, having previously studied Physics, Journalism, Business Administration and Economics at RWTH Aachen University and the Free University of Berlin.