Overview
- He announced in a video on Thursday that he decided months earlier to leave Axel Springer and will formally end the cooperation on 31 December 2026.
- Axel Springer confirmed the company and Schreiber will part ways at year-end and said he will pursue his own projects thereafter.
- Schreiber has said he will take a new role in 2027 and has already scheduled a live podcast/theatre tour titled "Sagen, was ist" with tickets on sale.
- The departure completes a brief tenure that began in September 2025 when he joined Springer's Global Reporter Network and shifted back to Germany in April for family reasons and a focus on podcast formats.
- The move highlights a wider trend of high-profile journalists leaving legacy outlets for creator-led, monetizable work and intensifies public debate over Schreiber's Middle East reporting and past controversial interviews about Islam.