The Publix Fellows
Publix Technologie-Journalism-Fellows
Do you have a question about the fellowship? Write to: eva.vongrafenstein@publix.de
Bastian Hosan
Business journalist
Publix Tech Fellow, year 2025/26
Focuses on digital topics, writes for Business Punk, Capital and Strive, among others – and increasingly for Tagesspiegel Background on public administration and smart city topics.
Jonathan Kemper
Technology journalist, non-fiction author and media trainer
Publix Tech Fellow, year 2025/26
Writes for the AI specialist portal The Decoder, for Photografix-Magazin.de and the weekly newsletter Hype from the YouTube channel c't 3003, among others. He published his first non-fiction book on AI in 2024 in the series "Erklärs mir, als wäre ich 5".
Fatemeh Khodadadian
Journalist
Publix Tech Fellow, year 2025/26
Worked as an IT consultant before moving into journalism. After a traineeship at Bayerischer Rundfunk, she works across media on power structures, institutional dynamics and the perspectives of marginalised groups.
Sonja Peteranderl
Journalist
Publix Tech Fellow, year 2025/26
Reports on cybercrime, security and technology, for ARD, DIE ZEIT and AlgorithmWatch, among others. She founded the School of Conflict & Peace and the Buzzing Cities Lab, which researches the influence of digitalisation on crime.
Carina Schroeder
Science journalist
Publix Tech Fellow, year 2025/26
Freelance audio journalist for public broadcasters since 2016. Podcast host at "KI verstehen" and at Über Podcast, and producer of "Der Rest ist Geschichte".
Nina Grunenberg Fellows for Education Journalism
Do you have a question about the fellowship? Write to: annika.finken@publix.de
Eser Aktay
Editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Editor in the society section of ZEIT ONLINE.
Elena Tara Bavandpoori
Author and reporter
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Author and reporter at WDR Cosmo and DLF Kultur, previously Karakaya Talks.
Torben Bennink
Freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Writes for Table.Briefings and Plan BD, among others, on cross-cutting education policy topics such as digitalisation and teacher training.
Kira von der Brelie
Editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Editor at Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland with a focus on social and education topics. Previously wrote for various newspapers and ZEITmagazin Online.
Veronika von Borries
Reporter
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Works for Deutschlandradio and Deutschlandfunk Nova.
Lena Büter
Social media expert and creator
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Founder of the TikTok education channel "Kinderfragen", among other things. In short, thoroughly researched videos she answers typical children's questions daily in under a minute.
Zeynep Dişbudak
Freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Works for Deutsche Welle, among others.
Katharina Elsner
Freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Katharina Elsner, freelance journalist, for DLF, NDR, Spiegel, taz and Science Notes, among others.
Alessandra Fahl
Editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Editor at General-Anzeiger Bonn, among others.
Josephine von der Haar
Journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
State parliament correspondent for the Protestant press service (epd) and freelance journalist for taz, Augsburger Allgemeine and Perspective Daily, among others.
Sandra Hermes
Education journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Writes for Eltern and Deutsches Schulportal, among others.
Greta Hey
Editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Editor, WDR 3 Tonart.
Clara Hoheisel
Radio journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Works in the culture department at Deutschlandradio. As a member of the federal board of Jugendpresse Deutschland, she supports the nationwide school newspaper competition of the German states.
Hannah Jäger
Journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Correspondent for Table.Briefings, reporting on education policy from daycare to vocational training in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia; also a freelance journalist for Perspective Daily.
Mareice Kaiser
Non-fiction author and freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Works as a journalist, author and host in Berlin and online on issues of justice. In 2022 medium magazin named her one of the TOP 10 German business journalists.
Simone Kamhuber
Feelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Freelance journalist, for ZEIT Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung and fluter, among others.
Juli Katz
Freelance journalist, author, screenwriter
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Writes for ZEIT ONLINE, taz and Neue Narrative, among others; former editor-in-chief of KATAPULT Magazin.
Wiebke Keuneke
Journalist, host, podcaster
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Freelance radio and television journalist for rbb, SWR and ARD, among others, with a focus on science communication.
Nastasja Kowalewski
Journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Freelance journalist in Leipzig, researching and writing on education policy and child protection.
Gunthild Kupitz
Journalist, non-fiction author, copy chief
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
After staff positions including copy chief at Glamour and editorial director of Brigitte-Woman.de, she works as an author and freelance copy chief in Hamburg.
Anja Meyer
Journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Writes and films reports as a freelance journalist, including for rbb.
Mareike Müller
Journalist and filmmaker
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Freelance journalist and filmmaker for ARD and ARTE, among others, researching and telling socio-political stories close to the people involved.
Malte Neumann
Education journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Deputy head of section at Bildung-Table since 2026, the leading briefing for education policy, education research and the education sector. Previously at Tagesspiegel.
Nicole Opitz
Social media editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Friederike Pick
Freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Freelance journalist for MDR Klassik and Leipziger Volkszeitung, among others.
Klaus Raab
Freelance journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Reports, writes columns and podcasts as a freelance journalist on media and education journalism topics.
Marcel Roth
Editor, reporter
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2024
Editor and reporter at MDR Sachsen-Anhalt.
Lea Schönborn
Editor
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Editor at Krautreporter.
Lena Stolz
Journalist and author
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2026
Journalist and author, for KiKA, BR and SWR, among others.
Sophie Tiedemann
Journalist
Nina Grunenberg Fellow, year 2025
Freelance journalist, for ZEIT ONLINE and SPIEGEL Geschichte, among others; social media for HateAid, dekoder and MSF.
Publix Fellowship for Media Entrepreneurs
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Sham Jaff
Journalist, strategy consultant, author
Publix Fellow for Media Entrepreneurs 2026
Journalist and founder/author of the award-winning newsletter "What Happened Last Week?".
Lea Weinmann
Journalist
Publix Fellow for Media Entrepreneurs 2026
Works in the investigative team at Süddeutsche Zeitung. Focus: open source intelligence (OSINT).