Marc Neller

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Marc Neller (* 1973 ) is a German journalist and reporter.

Life

Neller studied German, journalism and psychology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and graduated with a diploma. He volunteered at Thüringer Allgemeine in Erfurt and then worked for several years at Tagesspiegel (2004 to 2008) and Handelsblatt (2008 to 2010) before moving to the then newly founded investigative department of the Welt Group in November 2010. In July 2014, he became the editor in charge of the title topic of Welt am Sonntag and wrote and supervised multi-page reports and magazine stories. Since May 2016 he has been the editor and reporter responsible for special tasks in the economic department of Welt am Sonntag .

job

Together with his colleague Uwe Müller, Neller contributed significantly to the uncovering of the affair surrounding the head of television entertainment at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , Udo Foht , with several revelatory stories . With Lars-Marten Nagel, he researched the impending demise of the German wind power company Prokon at an early stage . Above all, however, Neller has made a name for himself with extensively researched, multi-page reports and documentaries, for which he was also awarded. These texts deal, for example, with the everyday life of BND spies, fallen wizards of the financial market, the questionable use of exorbitantly expensive cancer drugs or the dark side of the Internet ( cyber crime , cyber war). In 2017, Neller received the Theodor Wolff Prize for a cover story in "Welt am Sonntag" ("The Code of Evil") told in a detective novel .

Awards

Neller has received several journalism awards for his reports, including the Theodor Wolff Prize, the Ernst Schneider Prize , the Herbert Quandt Media Prize and the German Social Prize. He was also nominated several times for the German Reporter Award. and was repeatedly on the shortlist of the Henri Nannen Prize. In December 2018 he received the German Reporter Prize in the “Capital City Prize” category for Die Zuckerkrieger .

Individual evidence

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  7. ^ BDZV: Industry news . In: BDZV . ( bdzv.de [accessed on August 17, 2017]).
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  11. Bernd Wilken - adminion: Reporter-Forum: 2016. Retrieved on August 17, 2017 .
  12. Felix Disselhoff: Nannenpreis: The final selection of the previous jury is ›Meedia. February 16, 2011, accessed August 17, 2017 .
  13. Stern / Gruner + Jahr: Henri Nannen Prize 2014: The best works in the German-language press . stern / Gruner + Jahr, 2014, ISBN 978-3-652-00376-6 ( google.de [accessed on August 17, 2017]).
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  15. From Ronan Farrow to SPIEGEL - these are the winners. Spiegel Online, December 4, 2018, accessed on the same day.