Matthijs van Dam

Investigative Reporter Sports at Trouw

Matthijs van Dam is an accomplished investigative reporter specializing in sports, currently working at Trouw since March 2022, where notable achievements include winning the De Loep/Dutch-Flemish Investigative Journalism Award in 2024 and the Dutch Sports Press Prize in 2023 for impactful articles on labor conditions in Qatar. Previous experience includes a role as a sports journalist with publications in De Morgen and Die Zeit, as well as serving as a social domain and healthcare editor for Berghauser Pont Mediagroep from September 2019 to July 2021. Matthijs van Dam holds a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Amsterdam and has a diverse academic background that includes studies in history and international business.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Trouw

Trouw is one of the three national quality newspapers in the Netherlands, and part of the Belgium publisher De Persgroep. In 2012 it received the award European Newspaper of the Year fot its concept of a 'daily weekly'​ and its design. It produces every day a newssection and a section 'De Verdieping'​ with background, analyses, reports en opinions. On saturday there are two extra magazines called Letter&Geest with essays and bookreviews and a magazine named Tijd with human interest-story's. It's orginally founded in 1943 as a resistance newspaper. Nowadays the newspaper takes special interests in politics, sustainability, education, healthcare and the role of religion and (new) religious groups in our rapidly changing society.


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51-200

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