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Sonja Peteranderl

Sonja Peteranderl is an editor at Spiegel Online and co-founder of BuzzingCities Lab, a think tank focusing on digitalisation and security/crime in informal settlements. She covers global politics, tech trends, security, justice and organised crime/cyber crime for example the global war on drugs, predictive policing, the digital transformation of drug cartels in Mexico or the European arms trade.

She has previously worked as a senior editor at Wired Germany magazine, and as a freelance foreign correspondent for German media such as Spiegel Online, Wired, Zeit Online, Impulse magazine or Journalist magazine in several Latin American countries, the USA and China.

As a fellow of the American Council on Germany, she is currently investigating the influence and the challenges of algorithmic decision-making systems/predictive policing in the policing and security realm in Germany and the USA. She is also an alumna of the Robert Bosch foundation’s “Media Ambassadors China – Germany” programme, Otto-Brenner-Stiftung/Netzwerk Recherche and the foreign journalism programme of the German National Academic Foundation/Besser Foundation and has received several grants for her international investigations.

Labs

2022, 2020-2021, 2019

Topics

Civil Society, Conflict Resolution and Mediation

Sectors

Media

Origin

Europe

Residence

North America
More about Sonja Peteranderl

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Not a Family Drama: Reporting on Femicide

Women are killed worldwide because they are women. Femicide is a global epidemic. The media often portray these acts as isolated incidents or sensationalise them – without exposing the underlying systemic problems. A media guide co-initiated by GDL member Sonja Peteranderl aims to help journalists improve their reporting on gender-based violence and femicide.

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Digital Violence: How Trackers Are Misused for Stalking

GDL member Sonja Peteranderl produced a documentary on the misuse of trackers for stalking and answers three questions in an interview.

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Let’s Talk About Queer Media

Journalists Julia Jaroschewski and Sonja Peteranderl, founders of BuzzingCities Lab and GDL members, organize a panel at the re:publica digital conference to discuss innovative queer media formats, visibility and diversity in newsrooms, broadcasting and cinema.

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Galloping Through Guerrilla Territory

Thirty years ago, a peace deal ended El Salvador’s bloody civil war. In a former conflict hotspot, a tourism cooperative is fighting against oblivion – and building a future. GDL member Sonja Peteranderl rode along with them.

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Community-Led Crisis Response – Lessons From the Pandemic

Together with local experts, GDL members Sonja Peteranderl and Julia Jaroschewski explore how inhabitants of informal settlements and communities created tools and strategies to tackle challenges in connection with the pandemic when government support was late or insufficient.

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Uncovering the Role of Women in Crime

Women play an increasingly important role in criminal organisations and terrorism, but also in the fight against crime. The OpenCrime conference that took place within the Bosch Alumni Network in Berlin revealed current challenges and blindspots in the media coverage.

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Global Changemakers: Cities as Future Labs

At the Latin America-Caribbean Conference which was held at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, GDL members and founders of the BuzzingCities Lab Julia Jaroschewski and Sonja Peteranderl initiate and organise a GDL session on the future of ever-growing cities and how insecurity, crime and migration can be addressed through new technologies and innovative approaches.

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