Mercator Journalist in Residence in April 2026
Klaudia Lagozinski is the news editor and online editor for taz.de. In addition, she writes as a freelance journalist on topics including finance, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence.
She studied social and cultural anthropology, cultural journalism, and digital media and communication in Berlin and Uppsala. As a journalist, she worked in Stockholm as part of the International Journalists’ Program (IJP). She has also published reports from abroad, including from the U.S., Sweden, Norway, and Ukraine. She is particularly committed to making financial education accessible to those who grew up with limited resources.
Project
At ZEVEDI, Klaudia Lagozinski will examine the opportunities and risks posed by neobrokers. Young people whose parents have not already purchased stocks through their local bank are more likely to invest today. But are these new forms of investment truly motivated by saving and retirement planning, or rather by the thrill of speculation? And what role does content on social media, particularly on the platform Reddit, play in this? During her stay in Darmstadt, she intends to explore, from psychological, social, legal, and economic perspectives, the extent to which neobrokers make the financial world more accessible and the extent to which they carry the risk that this accessibility might encourage young people to “gamble.”
Further information on the programme and application procedure can be found on the German language website.