Nico Schmidt

Nico Schmidt is an investigative reporter based in Berlin. As part of the journalistic team Investigate Europe, he investigates together with colleagues from more than ten EU countries on topics ranging from the climate crisis to artificial intelligence.

His reporting has been published in Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Mediapart, Dagens Nyheter and Gazette Wyborcza. His work has been shortlisted for the German Reporter Prize and longlisted for the Henri Nannen Prize.

As well as reporting, Schmidt has lectured and trained on investigative journalism in Oxford, The Hague, Brussels, and Berlin.

He is currently working on a project about the proliferation of surveillance technologies.