Bastian Obermayer, born in 1977, is a reporter and co-director of the German investigative journalism bureau paper trail media, founded in 2022, which works for Der Standard in Austria, ZDF and Der Spiegel in Germany, and the Swiss publisher Tamedia. Prior to this, Obermayer spent almost two decades as a researcher for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where he most recently headed the investigative department. Obermayer has been working in partnership with Frederik Obermaier since 2012; together they uncovered, for example, the Ibiza affair and the Panama Papers, for which they were awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in New York. Obermayer & Obermaier have written several bestsellers; the book on the Ibiza affair was adapted into a fictional TV miniseries by SKY.