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, preferably on topics at the intersection of health care, politics and policing. I particularly enjoy writing and producing long form stories. In addition to my reporting work, I currently serve as president of the Georgia Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the country's oldest journalism organization.
In the U.S., my reporting has been featured by U.S. News & World Report, TIME, USA Today, KFF Health News, The Washington Post, NPR, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, Rural Health Quarterly 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 worked at Die Welt for over ten years, eventually 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 working as an embedded reporter 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 contemporary history.
I was 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 the 2018 ICFJ/IJP Holbrooke Research Grant. My work has been recognized with 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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