I’m Marie Bröckling, a data journalist based in Berlin covering criminal justice and China. I’m currently freelancing.

 

I regularly work for NBC News and ZDF.

In 2018, I wrote about a proposed law that would allow German police to hold people in jail indefinitely without trial. The story reached more than a million people and sparked a national debate on state surveillance. In the end, crucial parts of the proposed law were reversed, and I was invited as an expert on police law in five state parliaments.

Please feel free to reach out for any reason!

 
 

AWARDS

Top 30 under 30 by Medium Magazin, 2023.

Surveillance Studies Award, extra price of the jury, 2019.

Press Freedom Award by the Bavarian Journalist Association, second prize, 2019.

TALKS

I regularly give talks at international conferences, on podcasts, and in classrooms. I have been invited as expert on police law to five state parliaments in Germany.

 
 

On a panel about state surveillance at the re:publica conference in Detroit in 2019.

At a TV set in the newly opened Futurium museum in Berlin in 2020, speaking about safe cities.

Talk about new technologies used by police at the hackerspace c-base in Berlin in 2020.

Presenting on the grande stage of the Peoples Theatre (Volksbühne) in Berlin in 2019.

 

DATA PROJECTS

I write code in R to analyze online networks and scrape data off the web.

 
 
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Chinese Officials
Chinese Officials

I used R and Selenium to scrape Twitter accounts that is labeled as China state-affiliated on Twitter. With 401 accounts it is one of the most complete lists of Chinese officials on social media. You are welcome to use it, it’s available on DataHub.

Network of Chinese Officials on Twitter
Network of Chinese Officials on Twitter

In 2019, Chinese officials joined Twitter on a large scale, making China one of the world’s largest digital public diplomacy players. I used the Twitter API to visualize the network of follower/following relationships among Chinese diplomats, including gender and creation date.