Boris Kálnoky

Former foreign correspondent, Die Welt

Head of the MCC School of Media. Finished school in Paris, studied political science in Hamburg (graduated in 1986), then joined the editorial staff of the German newspaper Die Welt. From 1989 on started to write about Central and Eastern Europe. In 1993 left Die Welt and went to Budapest, Hungary to freelance. Nine months later he was lured back, now as a correspondent. In 2004, he became a correspondent for Turkey and the Middle East, based in Istanbul, from where he returned in 2013. In 2015 Kálnoky left Die Welt again to freelance again in Hungary, while continuously publishing in Die Welt and in parallel in Austrian and Swiss publications. Since 2020 he also teaches young students interested in journalism as the head of the MCC’s School of Media.