Katharina Wecker is a freelance investigative journalist based in Germany.

Katharina holds an MA in International Media Studies from the University of Bonn and Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, as well as a BA in International Development from the University of East London.

She has been awarded the BIGSAS Journalist Award 2019 for her reporting from South Sudan and has been a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Africa Great Lakes reporting initiative.

Wecker covers political and environmental topics as well as the climate crisis. Her reporting interests are offbeat, underreported and solution-oriented stories. She has reported from Germany, Colombia, South Sudan and Switzerland and has been published by Deutsche Welle, Spiegel Online, Zeit Online, Republik, Colombia Reports and DeSmog among others.

Katharina Wecker

Basic information

Name
Katharina Wecker
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
climate change, agriculture, environment
Country
Germany
City
Bonn
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Supported projects

The European Manure Dilemma

  • Agriculture
  • Environment

AMSTERDAM / BONN / HELSINKI / STOCKHOLM — Manure is a valuable part of the agricultural cycle but becomes a huge environmental threat when there's too much of it. The team of journalists in four countries tried to investigate the manure surplus, and discovered that related EU data is not readily available.

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Seeds of Deception

  • Environment
  • Industry

BONN/BUKAREST/BERN/AMSTERDAM/ATHENS – The future of our food supply is under threat as a high-stakes battle unfolds over seed control in the EU. This cross-border project investigated how companies exploit patent loopholes to demand and sometimes obtain patents from the EPO even on conventionally-bred plants, which are technically protected from patenting by both the EU and EPO laws.

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