David Schraven

David Schraven (2017)

David Schraven (* 1970 ) is a German journalist, founder of the non-profit research agency Correctiv and was a board member of the Research Network from 2007 to September 2014 .

Life

After graduating from the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Bottrop in 1990 , he began to study Slavic studies, political science and history at the University of Bonn. During his studies he worked as a freelance journalist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , taz and the WDR .

Schraven was a co-founder of the "Central Asia / Kyrgyzstan News Office ". In 1996 he became the founding managing director of the taz editorial team in Ruhr. In addition to his work as a journalist, he worked for three years as a lecturer in the field of news writing at the University of Essen .

In 2001 he was a guest reporter for Time magazine in New York. From 2005 he worked as a freelance journalist , mainly for Welt am Sonntag , Die Zeit and Berliner Morgenpost . After working for the taz and the Süddeutsche Zeitung , from 2007 he was a business reporter for the world group, responsible for energy reporting.

From 2010 until May 2014 he headed the department investigation of the four NRW newspapers WAZ , NRZ , Westfälische Rundschau and Westfalenpost , the WAZ media group in Essen.

Since July 2014 he has headed the non-profit research agency Correctiv, which is co-financed by the Essen Brost Foundation .

Schraven was a participant in the 2014 media meeting of the State Media Authority in North Rhine-Westphalia . At the beginning of 2017 he founded the online journalism school Reporterfabrik with Cordt Schnibben .

Controversy

Schraven published together with Georg Kontekakis at Correctiv the article "EXCLUSIVE: Top woman of the AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia worked as a prostitute", which imputed hobby prostitution on the Internet to an AfD candidate for the imminent state election in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 . The authors justified the publication by stating that such an activity was contrary to the image of women propagated by the party and made the politician “open to blackmail”. The article was heavily criticized on social media, and numerous journalists also commented negatively. The Düsseldorf District Court prohibited Correctiv from further distributing the article.

Private

Schraven is married, has two sons and lives in Bottrop.

Prizes, awards and nominations

• In 2008 he received the Guardian Prize of the German daily press - 3rd place - for reporting on the PFT scandal in the drinking water river Ruhr .
• In 2013 he was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award as the author of the comic War Times , Carlsen Verlag, together with the illustrator Vincent Burmeister
• In 2013 the WAZ received the Swiss Wolfgang Fichtner Prize for revelations in the Kaykin case . The 10,000 Swiss franc prize is awarded for exposing corruption and nepotism in German-speaking countries.
• In 2014, Schraven and the Correctiv team were named Journalist of the Year in the “Newcomer” category. Correctiv try “new journalism funding” and have sparked “a debate about the charitable nature of journalistic activities”, the jury said in the statement.
• In 2015 he received a Grimme Online Award for overall responsibility for research into the downing of flight MH17 from Correctiv. The jury praised the work as "persistent and with a lot of staying power". The story MH17 - The search for the truth is the "result of a great research effort, perfectly prepared."
• In 2015 his book Weisse Wölfe (illustrated by Jan Feindt ) was awarded the German Reporter Prize in the “Innovation” category.
• In 2016 he was named Journalist of the Year by the medium magazine jury as team leader in the category “Team of the Year”.
• In 2018 he and his team were nominated for the Nannen Prize 2018 in the "Investigative Achievement" category for research into the scandal surrounding the "Old Pharmacy".

Works

• 2009: editor and design for Undercover: Reporter in covert operations , network research , Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-9812408-1-8 .
• 2011: Author of the comic The true story of the sinking of Alexander Kielland , Carlsen Verlag , ISBN 978-3-551-73052-7 , together with Vincent Burmeister (draftsman).
• 2012: Author of the comic War Times , Carlsen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-551-78698-2 , nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize 2013, together with Vincent Burmeister (draftsman).
• 2014: Zechenkinder: 25 stories about the black heart of the Ruhr area , Ankerherz-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-940138-54-5 , together with Uwe Weber (photographer).
• 2015: Author of the comic WHITE WOLVES. A graphic report on right-wing terror , CORRECTIV, drawn by Jan Feindt , ISBN 978-3-9816917-0-2 .
• 2018: Author of the comic Under Crows: From Inside the Republic, CORRECTIV, drawn by Vincent Burmeister, ISBN 978-3981740097
• 2020: Editor Corona : History of an Announced Dying , DTV, with Cordt Schnibben (Editor), ISBN 978-3-423-26281-1

Web links

Commons : David Schraven  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography , Carlsen Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bülend Ürük: "David Schraven is leaving: Netzwerk Recherche needs a new treasurer", David Schraven, founder of the research office "Correctiv", is no longer the treasurer of the Netzwerk Recherche. In: www.newsroom.de. October 22, 2014, accessed November 2, 2014 .  (Invalid link)
2. ↑ WAZ research chief David Schraven leaves the Funke Group , Meedia , May 26, 2014
3. ↑ ^{a b} Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Invalid link)  
4. ^ Corrective: David Schraven starts non-profit research office , Horizont , July 1, 2014
5. ^ Journalism project Correct! V - Hope through research , Die Zeit , July 1, 2014
6. ^ NDR: Journalism in the Public Interest - 13min. Video interview with David Schraven ( Memento from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, July 10, 2014.
7. ↑ "Reporter Factory": Cordt Schnibben leaves Der Spiegel and founds journalism school with David Schraven , meedia.de on January 15, 2016 , accessed on January 15, 2016.
8. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: How the Correctiv research agency revealed the sex life of an AfD politician and caught a shit storm , Meedia , May 3, 2017.
9. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: The alleged AfD “sex scandal” has legal consequences for Correctiv - court prohibits distribution of the article , Meedia , May 11, 2017.
10. ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: "AfD-Sex-Scandal" report also controversial within Correctiv - Ethics Council deals with the case , Meedia, May 12, 2017.
11. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: Manners in the net: Who sows hatred , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 13, 2017.
12. ↑ World Correspondent receives the Guardian Award , Die Welt , May 7, 2008
13. ↑ Jury of the German Youth Literature Prize: Nomination at wartime , German Youth Literature Prize , March 15, 2013
14. ↑ WAZ receives Fichtner Prize , DerWesten, September 4, 2013
15. ↑ The jury's statement on December 19, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2014
16. ↑ Research on the shooting down of flight MH17
17. ↑ Rationale of the jury from June 18, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 19, 2015 (link invalid)  
18. ↑ These are the journalists of the year 2016 - medium magazin. Accessed October 7, 2018 (German). 
19. ↑ Nominees | NENNEN PRICE. Retrieved October 7, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Jury of the German Youth Literature Prize: Nomination at wartime , German Youth Literature Prize , March 15, 2013