About us
This landing page, de-news.net, offers you access to three project websites with headlines about Germany – in English and French: GermanCorrespondent.com, GermanPolicy.com, and journal-allemand.com.
de-news.net was established by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip. He has been a writer and researcher since 1995. A journalist, Koch has made a career in, successively, the fields of regional, IT, financial, and political reporting.
Besides, he is an NGO Manager, having served, among other roles, as a Senior Expert on Mauritania for Amnesty International. Since 2017, he has engaged in the field of soft counter-extremism. In this role, Koch is also the founder of the non-profit Policyinstitute.net which emphasizes soft counter-extremism, strategy, ways to counter hate, and capacity building in the Sahel.