David Schraven is CEO at Correctiv and a driving force in German journalism. At age 26 he led the now-defunct editorial team taz Ruhr, a branch of the German national daily that focused on the western German industrial area. From 2010 to 2014 he headed the collaborative research department of four North Rhine-Westphalia-based newspapers. He also co-founded the online journalism school Reporterfabrik. Schraven currently leads Correctiv, a non-profit platform for investigative journalism that he founded in 2014. He has received numerous journalism awards, including the German Reporter Prize.
