About

 

Kasper Goethals (1992) is a staff writer for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard, covering stories across the world. He joined the paper as a reporter in 2018. He is the recipient of three Belfius Press Prizes, Belgium’s highest distinction in journalism. He was previously the paper’s correspondent in Istanbul and is currently based in Brussels.

Over the course of his career, he has reported from more than fifty countries. Among other things, he has written about the Venezuela of President Nicolás Maduro, the war in Ukraine’s Donbas, anti-Western sentiment in Russia, migrant smugglers in the Sahara, the world’s last northern white rhinos, and a troubled U.S. Army translator who became a refugee in Europe, only to return to his homeland, Iraq.

Before joining De Standaard in 2018, he worked as a freelance reporter for three years. His work has been published in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands.

His reporting has been nominated for several major journalism awards in Belgium and the Netherlands. He won the Belgian national press prize in 2020 and 2022 for investigations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic in Congo. He was also part of the team that won the national press prize for audio journalism in 2020 with a podcast from Iraq. In 2026, he received a Special Recognition Award for a year-long reporting series on the unravelling of the old world order.

He holds an honours degree in international reporting from the journalism schools of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Aarhus (Denmark).

Contact

kasper.goethals{@}standaard.be