Sarah Pilz is a freelance investigative journalist from Germany.

Sarah Pilz is specialised in investigative and data-driven research on lobbying and corporate capture and has a background in cross-border collaboration and coordination. She has worked on cross-border investigations, the Forever Pollution Project, Under the Surface, and the Follow the Money investigation, Transparency Gap. She also worked as Network Coordinator at Arena for Journalism in Europe. Her research has been published by EUobserver, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR/WDR, and The Black Sea.

Sarah Pilz

Basic information

Name
Sarah Pilz
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
FOIs
Country
Germany
City
Parsdorf
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Sarah Pilz
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Supported projects

Forever Lobbying Project

  • 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.

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The Forever Pollution Project

  • Environment
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - EU - Nearly 23,000 sites all over Europe are contaminated by the “forever chemical” PFAS, an exclusive, months-long investigation from 18 European newsrooms shows. The investigation “The Forever Pollution Project” revealed an additional 21,500 presumptive contamination sites due to current or past industrial activity. This contamination spreads all over Europe.

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