Josa Mania-Schlegel is a German journalist at Leipziger Volkszeiting.

Josa Mania-Schlegel (°1991) grew up in Weimar and lives in Leipzig. After working for VICE, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Krautreporter and ZEIT im Osten, he has been a reporter at Leipziger Volkszeitung since 2020. He is a graduate of the German School of Journalism, was voted one of the ‘Top 30 to 30’ journalists of the year by Medium Magazine in 2017 - and was honoured as Reporter of the Year (regional) by Medium Magazine in 2020.

Together with twenty-one other journalists from eleven European countries, he investigated the European security sector. The result was a big scale Journalismfund supported project dubbed 'Security for Sale'. 

Josa Mania-Schlegel

Basic information

Name
Josa Mania-Schlegel
Title
Journalist
Country
Germany
City
Leipzig
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Supported projects

Security for sale: the price to protect Europeans

  • Security
  • Terrorism

Since the late 1990s, the European Union has worked to encourage a European security market, where major defence and technology companies develop products and services that better protect us from crime and terrorism. This industry should also create jobs and be globally competitive. Over the past year, more than twenty journalists in eleven European countries investigated this burgeoning sector. And they discovered there’s a lot wrong with the European security market.

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