Alicia Prager (Austria) is a journalist with a focus on environmental and climate stories based in Vienna.

She writes for the economy section of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, covering topics ranging from climate and environmental politics to the fossil fuel industry and the shift to renewables. Also, she is part of the journalist group Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Österreich.

Before, Alicia worked as a freelance journalist for various German- and English-language media, including Tagesspiegel, Die Zeit, Deutsche Welle, the Guardian and Al Jazeera English. She has worked on investigations about soy supply chains in Brazil, the arms trade between Brazil and Austria, as well as the impacts of climate change on the conflict in North-East Nigeria.

She has worked on investigations about soy supply chains in Brazil, the arms trade between Brazil and Austria, as well as the impacts of climate change on the conflict in North-East Nigeria. Recently, she has mostly been covering EU climate and energy policy for the German media Tagesspiegel Background.

Alicia Prager

Basic information

Name
Alicia Prager
Title
Multimedia journalist
Expertise
Environmental issues, climate
Country
Austria
City
Vienna

Supported projects

Impact of Large Industrial Facilities on the Danube River

  • Energy
  • Environment

PAKS / LINZ –  This investigation looked at the impacts of specific large industrial facilities along the Danube in Hungary, Austria and Germany, as well as legal regulation.

Checkmate on bees

  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Politics

Beekeepers in Europe are struggling. Over the past decades, European policies, and especially the Common Agricultural Programme (CAP), have promoted the industrialisation of agriculture, leaving no space for bees to thrive and exposing them to many harms, such as pesticides.