Nadja Tausche is a journalist and editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, a leading newspaper in Germany.

She has been researching about PFAS in Bavaria for years and was part of the first investigation of “Forever Pollution project” that was nominated für Deutscher Reporter:innenpreis 2023.

Previously, after studying journalism in Eichstätt, she reported from Freising, edited the website for the First German Television and wrote for the German Press Agency and the start-up The Buzzard. She then did an internship at the SZ. Originally she comes from Munich.

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Nadja Tausche

Basic information

Name
Nadja Tausche
Title
Journalist
Expertise
PFAS
Country
Germany
City
München

Supported projects

Forever Lobbying Project

  • Data Journalism
  • Environment
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations to water down a proposal to ban “forever chemicals” in the EU and shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society, threatening the economic equilibrium of European nations.