Gabor Steingart (born 1962 in West Berlin) is a German journalist and the author of several popular and influential books.

In June 2018, he started to issue a Monday-Friday daily newsletter called Steingarts Morning Briefing in German with a focus on politics and economics.

[1] Since August 2018, he has also issued a daily Der Podcast with commentaries and interviews of people in politics, economics, and culture.

Der Abstieg eines Superstars (2004), in which he criticised the country's lackluster economy and the politicians' inability to reform, stayed on the bestseller lists for months.

His capricious style makes people and ideas big, small or ridiculous, as is common in social media political journalism.

According to an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel, hubris is a way of life for Steingart, for whom "it can't be big, fast, powerful, loud enough".

[8] Steingart's motto, "100 percent journalism, no fairy tales", is reminiscent of the populism of the self-styled "lateral thinkers" against the "lying press", a pejorative political term, used intermittently since the 19th century in political polemics in Germany, that became popular again in recent years during the Corona crisis and the Pegida demonstrations.