Benjamin Best

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Benjamin Best (* 1976 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , film director and book author. He is considered an expert on betting fraud in sports .

Life and work

Benjamin order, the German-American roots, made in 1996 by the three-Linden High School in Berlin-Nikolassee the High School . Until 2003 he studied law , English and sports science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then studied sports journalism at the German Sport University Cologne . Since 2005 he has been working mainly for WDR as a freelance journalist . Since 2007 he has been dealing with betting manipulation in sports , mainly in football and tennis. In addition, several contributions from him ran in the sports show and the WDR show Sport Inside . About the 2009 European football betting scandal he researched for several public channels and Financial Times Germany .

In 2010, WDR5 produced its radio feature Goal, Victory, Fraud - Betting Manipulation in Sports , for which it was named “CNN Journalist of the Year” 2011.

In 2012 the WDR broadcast the report Pharma- Sklaven, a film by Rebecca Gudisch and Benjamin Best, in the series die story . With the report, the two authors were nominated for the German Human Rights Film Prize 2012. In 2013 his non-fiction book The Purchased Football - Manipulated Games and Deceived Fans was published .

Best directed and produced the feature documentary Dirty Games - The Business with Sport with his own company .

Eurosport hired Benjamin Best as an expert in sports policy and doping as part of the broadcaster's coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Best is one of the regular authors of the television program WDR Sport inside . In 2019, a report was broadcast there, Gefangen in Qatar , which dealt with the problematic work and life situation of guest workers in Qatar who were working on construction sites for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For this research he was named Sports Journalist of the Year 2019 by Medium Magazin. In 2020, Best and the Azerbaijani journalist Xədicə İsmayılova were awarded the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media from the Sparkasse Leipzig Media Foundation.

Prizes and awards

  • 2011 CNN Journalist of the Year
  • 2012 research grant from investigate! e. V. with Rebecca Gudisch
  • 2012 nomination for the German Human Rights Film Award with Rebecca Gudisch for the WDR report "Pharma-Sklaven"
  • 2013 Sports Journalist of the Year (3rd place), Medium Magazin
  • 2016 Best Director for the documentary Dirty Games at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema London 2016
  • 2016 Best Documentary Dirty Games at the Snowdance Film Festival
  • 2016 Best Documentary at the Stardoc Documentary Film Festival
  • 2016 Silver World Medal, New York Festivals
  • 2016 Best Director for the Documentary Dirty Games and Best Foreign Film at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards
  • 2016 Guirlande D'Honneur, Milan International Sports Film Festival
  • 2019 Best Short Documentary Captured in Qatar (English Title: Trapped in Qatar ) Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards
  • 2019 Guirlande D'Honneur Captured in Qatar , Milan International Sports Film Festival.
  • 2019 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism
  • 2019 Sports Journalist of the Year (1st place), Medium Magazin
  • 2020 Silver World Medal, New York Festivals
  • 2020 award for the freedom and future of the media

Books

  • The bought football - manipulated games and deceived fans . Hamburg: Murmann Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86774-266-5
  • Soccer crimes - My investigation into organized betting fraud. Hamburg: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020. ISBN 978-3-78221-360-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne. Homepage of the German Sport University Cologne
  2. ^ Benjamin Best: Violence, blackmail and gambling debts in the betting scandal. Deutschlandfunk , March 28, 2010, accessed on September 4, 2010 .
  3. ^ Benjamin Best: New details in the soccer competition scandal. Deutsche Welle , August 18, 2010, accessed September 4, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Benjamin Best: Well-networked betting fraudsters took off. (No longer available online.) Financial Times Deutschland , August 25, 2010, archived from the original on August 27, 2010 ; Retrieved September 4, 2010 .
  5. ↑ GOAL, VICTORY, FRAUD - betting manipulation in sports. WDR5, accessed September 4, 2010 .
  6. ↑ WDR author Benjamin Best named “CNN Journalist of the Year” - WDR press lounge. WDR, accessed on February 22, 2017 .
  7. ^ Pharma slaves. WDR, October 10, 2012, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ The Bought Football - Manipulated Games and Deceived Fans. (No longer available online.) Murmann Verlag, archived from the original on September 30, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
  9. ↑ W-film. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Dirty Games - Film.com website for film
  11. ↑ Benjamin Best Sports Policy and Doping Expert at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. In: Eurosport. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Team - About us. WDR Sport Inside, accessed on March 1, 2019 .
  13. ↑ World Cup Qatar - FIFA has to admit the exploitation of guest workers on the World Cup stadium construction sites for the first time. In: WDR press lounge. WDR, accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Guest workers in Qatar: FIFA admits violations on World Cup construction sites. In: WDR Sport inside. WDR, accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ WDR journalist Best is sports journalist of the year. In: Sportschau.de. ARD, December 19, 2019, accessed on January 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Go where it hurts. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Awarded "CNN Journalist of the Year"
  18. ↑ Research grant. investigate! e. V., accessed on May 9, 2013 .
  19. ^ German Human Rights Film Award. (No longer available online.) German Human Rights Film Award, archived from the original on December 19, 2013 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Sports Journalist of the Year. Medium Magazine, accessed February 5, 2014 .
  21. ↑ London IFF 2016 Filmmaker Award Winners. (No longer available online.) Filmfest International, archived from the original on May 29, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Dominic Wimmer: The jury had an easy time this year. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . January 31, 2016, accessed April 13, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Winners StarDoc 2016. (No longer available online.) In: stardocfestival.com. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  24. ^ New York Festivals. Retrieved May 19, 2016 .
  25. ^ Hollywood International Independent Awards. Retrieved November 9, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Guirlande D'Honneur. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
  27. ↑ July 2019 Winners. In: Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards. Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, October 11, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Award for WDR Sport Inside documentary “Captured in Qatar”. In: Sportschau.de. ARD, October 31, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .
  29. ↑ These are the winners of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize. In: Handelsblatt. Handelsblatt, November 29, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019 .
  30. ↑ WDR journalist Best is sports journalist of the year. In: sportschau.de. Sportschau, December 20, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  31. ↑ WDR Sport inside was twice successful at New York Festivals. WDR, April 23, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Go where it hurts. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Best, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin