Barbara Tóth

Barbara Tóth (born 1974) is an Austrian journalist, author and historian. She is the daughter of a Czech mother and a Hungarian father, studied history at the University of Vienna and graduated with a dissertation on the ‘Reder-Frischenschlager Affair’. After working for the news magazine Profil, the weekly magazine Format, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the daily newspaper Der Standard, she has been working for the city newspaper Falter since 2007, where she has been head of the politics department since 2013 and has also been responsible for ‘Stadtleben & Landleben’ (City Life & Country Life) and ‘Politisches Buch’ (Political Book) since 2015.

Her areas of expertise include Austrian contemporary history, party history, elite and scandal research, new social movements and feminism, Austrian politics with a focus on election campaigns, political systems, media policy, hegemony research and right-wing populism. In 2025, she received the Concordia Prize.

Tóth is also known as an author, has published numerous political analyses and reports, co-founded a popular science book series on Austrian National Council elections, and teaches journalism at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna. She has received several awards, including the Concordia Prize for Freedom of the Press in 2025. Tóth lives in Vienna and is the mother of two sons.