TIM RÖHN
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Tim Röhn is a Global Reporter at Axel Springer and Head of Investigations for WELT, POLITICO Germany and Business Insider Germany. After training at the Axel Springer Academy, he reported for WELT from more than 40 countries with a focus on migration, geopolitics, crime and corruption. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Der Spiegel and El País.
Beyond reporting, he works as a photographer, has contributed to documentaries — including ARTE’s “The Killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia” — and regularly lectures on investigative techniques. In 2022 he became a senior reporter at WELT and later its investigations editor; in April 2025 he was named a Global Reporter and relocated to New York City.
Twice, Medium Magazin named him among the ‘Top 10 German Reporters of the Year.’
Articles
In the course of his reporting around the world, he has published numerous major features and investigations in recent years—primarily in WELT, but also in Der Spiegel, POLITICO, and The New York Times.
Violence and Death on the Atlantic Route to Spain
(...) On a warm November afternoon, just after 4 p.m., a brightly painted wooden boat — known locally as a cayuco — entered the harbor of La Restinga, a small fishing town on the Canary Island of El Hierro. On board were more than 200 men, women and children from sub-Saharan Africa. They had left days earlier from an unknown location on the West African coast. Behind them: the Atlantic Ocean. Ahead of them: a new life in Europe. They had made it. (...)
Photos
Since 2014, he has taken his own photographs during reporting trips. His images have since appeared in Der Spiegel, WELT, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. As a partner agency, imago images distributes his work worldwide.
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TV
In 2019, he decided to place greater focus on documentary films and TV reports. Since then, his films have been broadcast on ARTE and ZDF, among others.
 The Misery of Spain’s Harvest WorkerIn early 2021, my documentary on the suffering of harvest workers in the south of the Iberian Peninsula was broadcast on ZDF’s Frontal21. |  The Suffering of Andalusia’s FishermenTogether with Marcel Mettelsiefen, he produced a 30-minute documentary for ARTE in 2020 about a dangerous algae infestation in the Mediterranean. |  Death on MaltaIn 2019, his first documentary aired on ARTE and ZDF: Murder in Malta, about the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. |
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 Spain as an Escape RouteIn the summer of 2019, he reported for ZDF’s Frontal21 in Spain, investigating the illegal onward journey of migrants to Northern Europe. |  Football on trialIn the fall of 2019, he worked for ZDF’s Frontal21 on an investigation into corrupt practices in German football. |
Contact
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