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Daniel Drepper
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Nieman Fellow @Harvard ('26) & chairman Netzwerk Recherche

previously: head of investigative cooperations NDR, WDR, SZ; EIC BuzzFeed News DE; co-founder Correctiv; alum Columbia Journalism School

Newsletter “Dreppers Woche”: steady.page/danieldrepper
Danke!
January 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Daniel Drepper
8. Before you indulge the urge to complain about “too much traffic” or “not enough parking,” learn all you can about induced demand, the law of congestion, and car dependency. Practice repeating to yourself the truth that “I’m not stuck in traffic, I AM traffic.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Der Autor unterrichtet hier in Harvard. So ein tolles Buch. Hat mich an dieses neuere (aber Football) erinnert, von einem Ex-Kollegen von mir.
January 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Das Aktuelle — das andere ist auch viel zum Magazin selbst und anderen Projekten.
January 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Es gibt auch noch ein tolles Buch über Tarbell und „The Magazine That Rewrote America“ — das war mein erstes Buch zu Tarbell vor ein paar Jahren und fand ich mindestens genauso gut.
January 1, 2026 at 5:41 PM
29) “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” — Murakami

30) “Warum wir laufen” — Reng

31) “Truth Is The Arrow, Mercy Is The Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories” — Almond

On to new books in 2026 ❤️

What were your favorite books in 2025?
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
25) “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” — Abdurraqip

26) “Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks” — Herring

27) “Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro” — Wegelius

28) “The Society of the Peloton” — Martin
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
21) “The Nutmegs Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis” — Gosh

22) “Was wäre, wenn wir mutig sind?” — Neubauer

23) “Männer, die die Welt verbrennen” — Stöcker

24) “The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams” — Frey
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
17) “Crazy Rich: Die geheime Welt der Superreichen” — Friedrichs

18) “They Poisoned The World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals” - Blake

19) “Eating Animals” — Safran Foer

20) “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” — Kolbert
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
13) “American Mother: A Life Reclaimed” — McCann/Foley

14) “Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires” — Rushkoff

15) “Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference” — Bregman

16) “Missbrauch, Macht & Medien” — Löffler
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
10) “Taking on the Trust: How Aida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil” — Weinberg

11) “The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky“ — Shuster

12) “V13: Chronicle of a Trial” — Carrère
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
7) “King: A Life” — Eig

8) “Among The Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy” — Mathani/McLaughlin

9) “Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream” — Greenwell
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
3) “Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful” — Enrich

4) “February 1933: The Winter of Literature” — Wittstock

5) “Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature” — Wittstock

6) “Why We’re Polarized” — Klein
January 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM