David Ehl
Reporter with a focus on Africa and Europe, often working on political and climate issues
David_EhlDavid isn't especially interested in positive journalism that paints the world in pastel colors. He values constructive journalism all the more and prefers to push beyond simply describing problems.
Since 2018, David has been a freelance reporter for DW. He came to journalism through an internship at a radio station and later learned his craft at the Journalism Seminar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 2015, he submitted his Master's thesis: a report from Serbia that explored the political concept of "safe countries of origin" through the individual fates of deported people.
As one of the first authors at the then newly founded online magazine Perspective Daily, David established one of the first German-language editorial teams to explicitly embrace constructive journalism. This perspective is also important to David in his work for DW: Especially in more relaxed, longer investigations, he likes to focus not only on the problems, but also on possible solutions.
Time and again, his research takes him to different African and European countries. There, David is particularly interested in political stories or the climate crisis and how local people are dealing with it.