Thomas Jahn
Editor and Leader of the Technology Team at Handelsblatt
Thomas Jahn, born in El Paso, USA, and raised in the Eifel region of Germany, earned a degree in economics from the University of Cologne and completed his training at the German School of Journalism in Munich in 1995. He then worked as an editor for the business magazine Capital. He has been with Handelsblatt since 2011, where he served as U.S. correspondent and subsequently as New York bureau chief and managing editor for the U.S. Since 2018, Thomas Jahn has been working at Handelsblatt’s main editorial office in Düsseldorf, where he heads the Technology team.
During his fellowship, Thomas Jahn will be investigating radicalization trends in Silicon Valley and their potential dangers: How radical is Silicon Valley’s thinking? What are the reasons behind it? And is the right-wing narrative being applied to artificial intelligence?
Selected Awards
2026 | Quandt Media Prize, for the profile of the tech company Palantir, “Daten als Waffe,” and the interview with Palantir CEO Alexander Karp, “Niemand spricht mehr über Deutschland”
2023 | Nominated for German Journalism Award, for “Tesla Files”
2019 | Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism, for “Milliardenfalle Glyphosat – wie Bayer nach der Übernahme von Monsanto ums Überleben kämpft“
1997 | Heinz Kuehn Fellowship
Selected Publications
2025 | “Niemand spricht mehr über Deutschland.” Interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp. In: Handelsblatt, December 22.
2023 | ”Ist KI existentiell gefährlich oder nicht?.” Debate with Nick Bostrom and Richard Socher. In: Handelsblatt, June 30.
2021 | “Wohin führt Technologie die Menschheit? – So sieht Philosoph Sloterdijk die Zukunft.” In: Handelsblatt, December 22.