Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer
Obermayer in 2024
Born (1977-12-10) 10 December 1977 (age 46)
Rosenheim, West Germany
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Deutsche Journalistenschule
Occupation(s)Investigative journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Known forPanama Papers
Paradise Papers
The Daphne Project

Bastian Obermayer (born 10 December 1977) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning German investigative journalist with the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and the reporter who received the Panama Papers from an anonymous source[1][2][3][4][5] as well as later on the Paradise Papers, together with his colleague Frederik Obermaier.[6] Obermayer is also author of several books, among them the best selling account of the Panama Papers: The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money,[7][8] co-authored by his colleague Frederik Obermaier.

After the Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Obermayer, in 2017, helped found[9] the investigative non-profit newsroom Forbidden Stories[10] and co-initiated[11] with founder Laurent Richard the first project: The Daphne Project, dedicated to the killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Obermayer serves currently as Vice President[10] of Forbidden Stories.

Obermayer studied politics, history, and American studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich as well as journalism at the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich.[12]

  1. ^ "'More headlines to come': Panama papers reporters – The Local". Thelocal.de. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  2. ^ "How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History". WIRED.com. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  3. ^ Paun, Carmen (5 April 2016). "Journalist at center of Panama leaks: 'Nobody hiding offshore is safe' – POLITICO". Politico.eu. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  4. ^ Clark, Nicola (5 April 2016). "How a Cryptic Message Interested in Data Led to the Panama Papers". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  5. ^ "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. ^ Zerofsky, Elisabeth (11 November 2017). "How a German Newspaper Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  7. ^ "The Panama Papers". UK.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Journalist Profile: Bastian Obermayer". International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  9. ^ "A new project will keep stories alive when journalists are killed". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. ^ a b "About Us • Forbidden Stories". Forbidden Stories. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  11. ^ Carolin Hasenauer (20 April 2018). "Forbidden Stories: Auch Daphne Caruana Galizias Recherchen gehen weiter | BR.de". Bayerischer Rundfunk (www.br.de) (in German). Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  12. ^ "The Authors 2009". Young.euro.connect. Retrieved 9 April 2016.