I've covered Silicon Valley for eight years from San Francisco — first as bureau chief for ARD, Germany's flagship public broadcaster, now as correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and founder of implicator.ai. Before that, 20 years in public broadcasting at SWR, BBC World Service, and Bayerischer Rundfunk. The AI beat rewards reporters who understand what they're covering. I operate self-hosted AI infrastructure and work with frontier models daily — not as a hobbyist, but because the technical fluency makes the reporting better.
The Beat
Enterprise & Breaking News
- Front-page features for FAZ on AI strategy, platform governance, and transatlantic tech policy
- Breaking news on corporate strategy, research breakthroughs, investment trends, and regulatory action
- Forward-looking analysis — identifying power dynamics and emerging trends before they become consensus reporting
- Daily AI coverage at implicator.ai with a clear editorial point of view: accountability over hype
Source Network
- 30+ on-record sit-downs with CEOs, AI researchers, and founders across the Valley
- Relationships across major AI labs, venture firms, the open-source community, and European regulatory bodies
- A transatlantic network that delivers angles US-only reporters miss
Multi-Platform
- Print and digital: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1M+ daily readers), implicator.ai (20,000 monthly readers)
- Broadcast: ARD/Tagesschau correspondent (2017–2023), reaching 500K viewers per segment
- Newsletter: implicator.ai flagship daily — 58% open rate
- Podcast development, narrative audio, stage interviews, and panel moderation
Where My Work Appears
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Enterprise features on AI strategy, Silicon Valley power structures, and transatlantic tech policy for Germany's paper of record.
implicator.ai
A daily AI publication I founded and publish. Zero to 20,000 monthly readers in seven months. Covers frontier models, AI governance, and industry power dynamics with original reporting.
ARD/Tagesschau
Seven years as West Coast bureau chief. Covered Apple, Google, Meta, Tesla, antitrust cases, platform regulation, and the chip wars for Germany's largest news organization. Ran the bureau across TV, radio, digital, and social with a team of five.
SWR, BBC World Service, Bayerischer Rundfunk
20 years in public broadcasting before stepping into independent publishing. Founded DASDING at SWR — Germany's first multimedia broadcaster. Led a 60-person cross-functional team in digital innovation at BR.
Recognition
Kurt Magnus Award — for journalism excellence
Grimme Online Award — for digital journalism
Get in touch
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
marcus@schuler.media · +1 415 745 2027 · San Francisco Bay Area
Updated April 2026