Nicolas Richter

This article is about the journalist. A professor of the same name at the Kassel University is the inventor of the German Euro-Steno .

Nicolas Richter (* 1973 in Geneva ) is a journalist .

After studying law in Munich and Paris, Richter initially worked in the New York offices of the German Press Agency and ZDF and then volunteered at the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).

In the foreign policy department of the SZ, Richter wrote about international law , international criminal law and the fight against terrorism.

From 2009 to 2012 he was an editor in the research department of the SZ; together with Klaus Ott , he revealed the Formula 1 affair surrounding Bernie Ecclestone and, with Hans Leyendecker, the script affair on public television. Since 2013 he has been reporting on US politics and society as the Washington correspondent for the SZ. Since the beginning of 2018 he has headed the Investigative Research department of the SZ together with Bastian Obermayer .

Prizes and awards

• Guardian Prize of the daily press 2007, with Hans Leyendecker on the El Masri case
• Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize 2010, together with Klaus Ott and Hans Leyendecker
• Henri Nannen Prize (nominated)
• Theodor Wolff Prize 2010 (nominated), 2017 (award winner)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the editor: Everything is new. www.sueddeutsche.de, December 29, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Nicolas Richter: On the ground. ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 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. In: Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger e. V. , December 3, 2009.