Maik Großekathöfer

Maik Großekathöfer was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist with The First Hotspot.

Maik Großekathöfer was born 6^th of March 1972 in Guetersloh. He studied journalism, political sciences and German philology at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University in Muenster and graduated in October 1997. Then he attended the Henri-Nannen School for Journalism in Hamburg until September 1999. Maik Großekathöfer started to work for the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL in November 1999. He worked as a sports reporter for 16 years, covering for example four Olympic Games. Then he worked for the »Reporter« department, writing about a variety of topics, such as the refugee crises in 2015, right-wing populism and sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Since September 2020 he has been working for the »Deutschland« department, mainly covering the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. Maik Großekathöfer is married and the father of two children.

John Goetz

John Goetz won the 2022 European Press Prize Distinguished Reporting Award with ‘What Guantánamo made of them.’

John Goetz is an investigative journalist and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Los Angeles Times, the Sunday Times, and The Guardian and his films have been shown on ARD, ARTE, Channel 4, MSNBC, DR and at film festivals around the world. The author of three books, Goetz has also worked as a producer at CBS’s “60 Minutes” and at the CBC’s “fifth estate”. As a staff journalist at Der Spiegel, he won Germany’s Nannen Award for his story about German war crimes in Afghanistan. In 2011, he joined the broadcaster NDR as Editor of Investigations and created the investigative cooperation between the Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR. His film “Snowden’s Great Escape” won the best documentary award in 2015 from the German Television Academy. His 90-minute documentary “In Search of Monsters” about the men and women who tortured the former Guantanamo prisoner Mohamadou Slahi was recently featured in a “This American Life” episode and will be released in North America later in 2022.