Maria Christoph is a crossmedial investigative journalist. In 2020, she was awarded the German "Reporter:innenpreis" in the category "podcast". In 2022, her work was honored with the Axel-Springer-Prize. For her research into abuses of power in star gastronomy she is nominated for the renown Theodor-Wolff-Prize. Christoph is graduate of the German School of Journalism and a former fellow of "netzwerk recherche". She studied Journalism, Communication Science and Psychology in Munich and Singapore and worked as a freelance reporter for the public broadcaster BR, Die Zeit and Vice before joining
paper trail media.