What can be exposed only from within. In this open workshop, we would like to chat with like-minded reporters about the chances and opportunities, risks and ethical borders for going undercover in the...
David Schraven
David Schraven leads the non-profit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV as Publisher.
After spending time at taz and Süddeutsche Zeitung, he worked as a freelance journalist in the business and North Rhine-Westphalia departments of the Welt-group. While working as a guest journalist for Time Magazine, David was in New York on September 11th when the towers fell. He also founded the political blog Ruhrbarone. Between 2010 and 2014 David was in charge of the research department at the Content Desk of Funke-Mediengruppe (WAZ/NRZ/WR/WP).
David received the Wächterpreis der Tagespresse award for his investigation of the PFT-poison scandal at the Ruhr. He was awarded the Research Prize of the Swiss Wolfgang-Fichtner-Foundation for his work on fraud allegations against former state secretary Zülfiye Kaykin. His report on the German military’s Afghanistan mission Kriegszeiten (Wartimes) was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award. His graphic report on right-wing terrorism Weisse Wölfe was awarded the Deutscher Reporterpreis. For supervising the investigation into the downing of flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine he was awarded the Grimme Online Award.
Events IJF 2025
Can Dündar was until 2016 editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet and one of the most famous journalists in Turkey. But after his revelation of weapons deliveries from Erdogan's Turkish secret service to Islam...
The Publix Building in Berlin provides top-quality infrastructure for journalism and civil society work. We bring together a network of people who are working on vital questions facing the future of t...
Besides the emergency support for Ukraine media, there is a need to reestablish the media ecosystem in Ukraine in the hard hit regions. We want to talk about the best ways to help the reconstruction o...
A network of a dozen newspapers involving 30 journalists investigated the deathlists of right-wing terrorists. The investigations was focused on the potential victims, on the people that are under thr...
The panelists will explore the many possibilities of constructive journalism and will outline their very different programs, revealing what has worked and what hasn't. They will also explain their mot...
Nationwide collaborations on local investigative reporting in Germany and the UK
Newsrooms at local and national level are facing a financial crisis that means more expensive investigative reporting is under threat. Yet there has never been more need for journalism that holds powe...
To what extent has the Sicilian mafia infiltrated the German economy? An ambitious project, possibly the first extensive German research into the matter, has with an innovative format unveiled how Ger...
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