I'm an award-winning independent journalist based in Atlanta. I report for newspapers, magazines, radio stations and digital media outlets in the United States and Europe, with a focus on police, public safety, healthcare and business. I primarily write and produce enterprise and long form stories.
In the U.S., my reporting has been featured by NPR, KFF Health News, U.S. News & World Report, TIME, Police1, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, GaBiz Magazine, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
In Europe, I'm a regular contributor to German national public radio, the German national daily Welt, news website Spiegel, the German-Jewish weekly Jüdische Allgemeine and The Times of Israel.
Before immigrating to the U.S. I spent over ten years at Die Welt, first as an international military beat reporter and later, as a foreign correspondent. I covered conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, and military operations in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf, often reporting as an embedded journalist with U.S. and NATO troops.
As a foreign correspondent in Die Welt's Brussels office, I covered the European Union, NATO and the Benelux countries. I also wrote a critically acclaimed book about life behind the scenes at the EU's power center, "Der Tross von Brüssel" ("The Brussels Entourage").
Prior to becoming a journalist, I studied history, economics and political science at the University of Bonn and Freie Universität Berlin, where I graduated with a master's degree in modern history.
I currently chair the National Membership Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the country's broadest and oldest journalism organization. I'm the immediate past president of SPJ Georgia, the organization's Georgia Pro Chapter.
I was also a founding member of the Advisory Council to the Department of German Studies at Emory University in Atlanta and served on the juries for the European Commission’s Lorenzo-Natali Prize for Journalism, as well as the FameLab competition for science communication.
I'm an Arthur F. Burns Fellow and a recipient of an ICFJ/IJP Holbrooke Research Grant. My work has been recognized with a National Azbee Award of Excellence, several Green Eyeshade Awards, a Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) award, and an Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) reporting award.
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