Lewis Sanders IV
Investigative reporter focusing on security issues
Since joining DW a decade ago, Lewis has traversed many terrains, investigating organized crime in Southeast Asia, atrocities in the Middle East and digital networks of violent extremist groups.
His investigative work blends traditional journalistic methods with innovative approaches for information gathering and source development, including digital ethnographic research and OSINT techniques. Additionally, he supports DW’s linear service by covering breaking news in Germany.
His latest documentary, Scam Factory: Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery, exposes the vast criminal network behind scam factories in Myanmar's borderlands, where thousands of people are held against their will and forced into criminality. It is a story where victims are perpetrators and reality is far from what it seems.