Fabian Federl is a Franco-German freelance foreign reporter for several newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Das Magazin (CH) and Die Zeit; aswell as radio outlets, including the BBC, Deutschlandfunk and WDR.
He received the German-Portuguese Journalism award four times, and won an award at the Fetisov Journalism Awards for Environmental Excellence. His stories have received over a dozen nominations for major awards in Germany, Switzerland and Europe overall.
His work has been supported by Journalismfund.eu, the Pulitzer Center, Otto Brenner Foundation, and others. He writes in German and English and his work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Czech, Taiwanese and Korean.
In 2024-25, Fabian Federl was a Rainforest Investigations Fellow at the Pulitzer Center.