Sigrid Schultz (January 15, 1893[1][a] – May 14, 1980) was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism.

In 1901, when Schultz was eight, her father obtained a commission to paint the king and queen of Württemberg[5] in Germany and the family moved to Europe.

After completing the royal commission, Schultz's father continued to receive requests for portrait painting and decided to stay in Europe, establishing a studio in Paris.

")[10] At war's end, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, needed a correspondent fluent in both German and English.

Published in the Tribune's weekly magazine under the fictitious name "John Dickson", Schultz filed her dispatches from outside Germany — usually from Oslo or Copenhagen — with false datelines.

These articles reported on the attacks the German government made on the nation's churches, exposed the concentration camps and the increasing persecution of Germany's Jews.

In one of these dispatches, Dickson asserted that Germany was prepared for war and predicted the Munich Agreement that gave Hitler free rein to march into Czechoslovakia.

Writing as Dickson, Schultz reported that "Supporters of the theory of Nazi-Soviet cooperation claim that plans for a new partition of Poland, dividing it between Germany and Russia, have been concluded.

Schultz reported on the many military triumphs of the Wehrmacht during the first year of World War II, but was not permitted to travel to the front because she was a woman.

")[10] In Schultz's book Germany Will Try It Again, she describes, based on her first-hand witness reports on what is in essence would equate with a German-Austrian Military-Industrial Complex composed of wealthy landowners (Junkers), bankers, and corporate businessmen (of companies still thriving today), who fired World War I, then planned a comeback despite defeat in 1918, propped up Hitler, were planning a comeback in 1944 (ultimately leading to the formation of Die Spinne and ODESSA)[b] as well as the Vatican ratlines to South America and the harboring of Nazi officers in the USA after 1945.

In 2014, Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) began awarding the Sigrid Schultz Scholarship for Future Journalists, given to two undergraduate students each year who major in journalism.