Olaf Jahn

Olaf Jahn (* 1960) is a German journalist. The former foreign correspondent and investigative journalist has been running the Berlin School of Journalism together with journalist Joachim Widmann since October 2012 . Previously, he had set up and led investigative research teams for the news agencies ddp Deutscher Depeschendienst and dapd news agency .

Life

Jahn studied Sinology in Hamburg and Taipei (Taiwan) and graduated from the Axel Springer School of Journalism (today: Axel Springer Academy ). After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he headed the Berlin correspondents office of the Hamburger Abendblatt (1991–1995) and, together with the journalist Nina Gerstenberg, set up the Asia correspondents office of the Axel Springer Verlag in Hong Kong (1995–1999). He was deputy head of politics and chief reporter of the Berliner Morgenpost (1999–2002), did research for the paper on the Berlin bank affair and then switched to the ARD political magazine Kontraste (2002–2005). For the news agency dapd , Jahn did extensive research on Deutsche Bahn, the Heros Group's money transport scandal and other topics in the areas of mismanagement, corruption and white-collar crime.

Publications

• Death in the billion dollar game - the banking scandal and the end of a key witness (with Susanne Opalka), Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3887471903 .
• End of the line chaos - the railway on a dangerous course (with Ursel Sieber and Norbert Siegmund), ARD, November 16, 2009, 45 minutes.

Awards

• 2010: Ernst Schneider Prize for business reporting
• 2010: Nominated for the journalist award "Long Breath"
• 2007: Nominated for the journalist award "Long Breath

Web links

• BJS is new to Volkmar goes, Jahn and Widmann come
• Handelsblatt: Heros - the incredible story
• Spiegel: "Pharisee Däke should take off his hat"
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung on the crisis in the diocese of Magdeburg: "Fiasco at the church company"
• Tagesanzeiger about the new boss of the Swiss Federal Railways: Andreas Meyer and the Berlin S-Bahn chaos