Matthias Krause

Freelance Correspondent (New York) August 2002 – present - Coverage of politics, economics, and human interest for a variety of German-language newspapers and magazines - Clients include the Aargauer Zeitung and Der Bund (Switzerland); Der Tagesspiegel, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland, Cicero, Stern, and Die Zeit (Germany) - Multimedia reporting for stern.de, zeit.de - Radio reporting for Radio Freiburg (Switzerland) - Photography assignments for a variety of clients in Germany, Sweden,

Deutscher Depeschen Dienst (Berlin) Manager, Berlin department, November 2000 – June 2002 - Oversaw and assigned stories to twelve reporters - Planned day-to-day coverage as well as long-term projects - Responsible for the training of beginning journalists - Lead investigative reporting on a major scandal that brought down a large, publicly funded Berlin bank

Berliner Zeitung Reporter, Sports department, January 1996 – October 2000 - Beat reporting for basketball, swimming, and boxing - Investigative reporting about doping in sports - Wrote twice-weekly column for Sports section - Covered trials against former East German coaches and managers accused and ultimately convicted of doping children - One of two Berliner Zeitung reporters to cover the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia

Direct-TV Berlin Research Assistant and Producer, January 1995 – December 1995 - Planned and produced shoots for news magazine program (comparable to 20/20 in the United States) - Pitched story ideas to German and British TV stations

Studium der Volkswirtschaft, Politik und Geografie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Abschluss als Diplom-Geograf mit Schwerpunkt nachhaltige Entwicklung (sustainable development)