Sonja Peteranderl

Sonja Peteranderl is an investigative journalist and the founder of BuzzingCities Lab, a think tank focusing on violence, crime and the impact of technology, and The School of Conflict & Peace. She covers organized crime, urban violence, illegal markets, gender-based violence, digital violence, security/policing and tech trends, from predictive policing to criminal innovation.

She worked as editor at the foreign desk at DER SPIEGEL, as Latin America correspondent for DER SPIEGEL based in Tijuana, Mexico; as a technology editor for DER SPIEGEL, a senior editor at WIRED Germany magazine, as well as a freelance foreign correspondent and reporter for German and international Media (SWR Vollbild, DER SPIEGEL, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stern.de, Zeit.de, The Verge, ARTE Magazine, Impulse, German Press Agency, DPA, Tagesspiegel, Der Freitag, Y-Kollektiv, Wirtschaftswoche, Deutschlandradio, Deutschlandfunk, DMZ, La Verdad Juárez) – reporting from various countries in Latin America, from the US or China. As an algorithmic accountability reporting fellow at AlgorithmWatch, she investigated the impact of algorithms on policing and justice.