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Daniel Drepper is the chairman of Netzwerk Recherche, Germany's association of investigative journalists. An investigative reporter for more than 15 years, he co-founded the investigative nonprofit Correctiv, was editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News Germany and was the head of investigative cooperation between Süddeutsche Zeitung and the German public broadcasters NDR and WDR. Drepper has won numerous awards for his work and was named journalist of the year and editor-in-chief of the year by Medium Magazin. He investigates topics ranging from abuse of power to environmental crimes and has written two books — “Row Zero: Violence and Abuse of Power in the Music Industry” and another book about poor working conditions in German nursing homes. He has a journalism diploma from TU Dortmund, a master’s degree in investigative journalism from Columbia Journalism School and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.