Matthias G. Bernold is an award winning Austrian journalist. In May 2008, he graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In New York, he has been contributing stories and photos to a variety of Austrian publications, such as Wiener Zeitung, Falter, Profil and Wiener.
Before joining Columbia in 2007, Bernold was a staff reporter for the Austrian weekly Falter and before that for the Austrian daily newspaper Wiener Zeitung. He covered the infamous Natascha Kampusch-case, and he wrote stories for the German magazine Stern. In summer 2006, when the war in Lebanon started, he was sent to Israel and West Jordan.
In 2007, Bernold was awarded the Graf und Graefin Arco Fellowship which is granted to Columbia students who demonstrate extraordinary promise. In 2005, he won the Journalistenpreis des Juridisch Politischen Lesevereins. In the same year, being a fellow of the World Press Institute, Bernold traveled the United States for four month.
Born in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 29, 1975, Bernold graduated from the University of Vienna in 2001 with a degree in law. He is also an accomplished press photographer and has studied photojournalism at the University of Hawaii .
Since August 2008, Bernold has been traveling across the United States to cover the US-elections.
This photograph shows Matthias G. Bernold (right) and the extremly talented Laurence Witherington at work. Mr Witherington is the inspirational copy editor of the English version of Roadtrip to the White House
