Marcel Metze
Marcel Metze (1952) has been working as a journalist since 1980. In the 1990s he began investigating big business and government. He wrote hundreds of articles, dozens of essays and authored books on, among others, Philips Electronics, the Dutch banks and the decline of the once powerful Christian-Democratic party in the Netherlands. His biography of Anton Philips became the 2006 Management Book of the Year (a Dutch award) and was nominated for the AKO literary prize (longlist). His political biography of Shell (‘High Stakes’/’Hoog Spel’) was published in May 2023 and received a nomination for the Libris History Prize.
Between 2011 and 2015, Metze developed and ran a teaching lab for young investigative journalists. In 2014, he founded De Onderzoeksredactie, a non-profit for investigative journalism (later continued as Platform Investico). From 2015 until 2018 he was an editorial advisor of the Dutch Journal of Medicine. In March 2017 he founded the Tobacco Investigations Desk (Onderzoeksredactie Tabak), which was expanded into The Investigative Desk in January 2019. Metze is the director and editor-in-chief of this non-profit organisation, which again includes a teaching lab.
Metze is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
Publications
The Investigative Desk Newsletter November Q3 2023
Read the full newsletter here. Dear reader, We’ve been extremely busy developing projects and writing subsidyapplications, so we upload this newslette
The Investigative Desk Newsletter special edition July 2023
Read the full newsletter here. Dear readers, In this special edition we present you two major stories we just published. An international team,
The Investigative Desk Newsletter Q2 2023
Read the full newsletter here. Dear reader, This time, we bring you two stories and a book. Our editor Tim Luimes investigated the lobbying activitie
High stakes, the political biography of Shell
Shell knows the ways to the highest circles as well as the shortcuts through the political swamps. The oil and gas giant operates in 70 countries. Mos
The Investigative Desk Newsletter Q2
Read the full newsletter here. Dear reader, In this newsletter, we present you eight of the investigations we published in Q2 of this year. They are
Newsletter Q1 2022
Read the full newsletter here. Dear reader, We’ve been been extremely busy in Q1 and have published quite a few stories. There are more to come. So w
Newsletter Q3 2021
Read the full newsletter here. Dear reader, I’m glad to report that in the past year, the number of our followers has steadily grown. We have therefor
Newsletter June 2021
Read the full newsletter here. During the first half of 2021 we realised a record number of 17 publications, many of which drew widespread attention.
Newsletter January 2021
Read the full newsletter here. In 2020 – our second year – we have been very productive. We embarked on some thirty investigations. Half of these resu
