Mathieu Martiniere

Mathieu Martiniere was selected as runner-up for the 2021 European Press Prize Investigative Reporting Award with ‘The Dark Side of Sport.’

Based in Lyon (France), Mathieu Martiniere is an independent journalist. He is the co-founder of the European collective of freelance journalists We Report. With Daphné Gastaldi, he has investigated “The  Dark Side of Sport”, an in-depth investigation produced by Disclose that had a huge impact in France in 2020. He is also one of the co-authors of the investigative book “Church, code of silence” (JC Lattes, 2017) and the co-author of a documentary about Interpol “Who controls the world.”

Wolfgang Bauer

Wolfgang Bauer, born in Hamburg in 1970, has been raised in Germany’s far north and south. He went to night school in Reutlingen, had parallel careers as bakery deliveryman, tour guide, mover, postman, garbage sorter, temporary building superintendent.

Bauer studied at the University of Tübingen: Islamic studies followed by geography and history. He has been doing regular travels to the Middle East since 1990.

Wolfgang Bauer started his career as Freelance journalist in 1994. Learned writing at daily Schwäbisches Tagblatt in Germany’s Southwest. Since 2000 he has been a reporter for various magazines like National Geographic and Stern. Bauer is specialized in long-read-features. He has covered conflicts in Africa and the middle east since 20 years. He first travelled to Afghanistan in the winter of 2002. Since then, he has done frequent reporting from Afghanistan. Since 2011, he has been a reporter for the Editor-in-Chief of Die ZEIT. Author of the books Crossing the Sea (Migration to Europe), Stolen Girls (Boko Haram) and Fracture Zones (Suhrkamp).