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Direkt36 is a non-profit investigative journalism center in Hungary with the mission to expose wrongdoings and abuse of power through fair but tough reporting, a kind of journalism that is vital for any democracy.<\/p>\n

We provide the Hungarian and international audience with in-depth accountability reporting that most of the Hungarian media outlets do not have the resources to pursue. Direkt36 is not part of the competition of news organizations covering daily events, which allows us to focus our resources exclusively on conducting systematic investigations.<\/p>\n

We actively participate in the work of a growing international investigative journalism community and we publish all of our stories – which often have international implications – also in English.<\/p>\n

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Staff<\/h1>\n

Patrik Galavits – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Patrik graduated in Public and International Administration from the National University of Public Service. He started out as a private sector employee at multinational corporations before he ventured into journalism. He became a reporter and radio show host at Klubr\u00e1di\u00f3, then he produced a podcast and wrote articles at Azonnali.hu. Most recently he worked at Forbes Hungary. In 2019, he won a grant at WDR, a public broadcaster based in Germany. In 2022, he took part in an International Visitor Leadership Program for journalists, organized by the United States Department of State. He has been nominated for the Quality Journalism Award multiple times. His investigative article series involving abuses and sexual harassment at the Hungarian Dance Academy earned him a nomination for the Transparency Soma Award in 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kamilla Marton – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Kamilla graduated from the Budapest Metropolitan University in Communication and Media Science. She started her career at Direkt36 as a junior journalist. She is mainly interested in the cultural background of underground subcultures and social inequalities. She loves extreme sports.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Szabolcs Panyi – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Szabolcs graduated from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University where he studied Hungarian language and literature. Between 2013 and 2018, he was an editor and political reporter at Index.hu. At Arizona State University, he studied investigative journalism on a Fulbright Fellowship in 2017-2018. In the fall of 2018, he joined Direkt36, where he mainly works on stories related to national security and foreign policy. Meanwhile, he helped launch VSquare.org, a Warsaw-based cross-border investigative journalism initiative for the Visegr\u00e1d region, where he is currently leading the Central Eastern European investigations. He received the Quality Journalism Award and the Transparency-Soma Award four times each, and he was also shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2018 and 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151 – director, founder, editor<\/h3>\n
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Andr\u00e1s is a co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government\u2019s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers. He twice won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012\/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019\/20. Andr\u00e1s has taught journalism courses at Hungarian universities.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Andr\u00e1s Szab\u00f3 – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Andr\u00e1s worked eight years as a journalist at Origo, a then prestigious online news site, but also spent several years at Index and vs.hu news outlets. At Direkt36 he covers Russian-Hungarian relations, activities of business circles close to Fidesz, and political decision making processes of the Orb\u00e1n government. In 2011 he received the G\u0151b\u00f6ly\u00f6s Soma Award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary, and in 2010 he won the Quality Journalism Award, both for a series of articles that focused on a corruption case connected to the former Socialist-led government.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

D\u00e1niel Sz\u0151ke – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Graduated from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University at 2013 as a librarian scientist. As a freelancer he worked with 444.hu news-site for several years, and in 2020 attended Transparency International\u2019s mentor program for investigative journalists. In January 2021 he started to work as an intern, and since September 2021 he is a full-time journalist of Direkt36.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Zsuzsanna Wirth – journalist<\/h3>\n
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Zsuzsanna started her journalistic carreer at Origo, where she spent ten years at the news desk, covering and investigating various political and social issues as well as corruption and organized crime. She was awarded the Prize for Quality Journalism three times, and is also a special awards winner of the G\u0151b\u00f6ly\u00f6s J\u00f3zsef Soma Foundation. She worked for the Hungarian editions of Forbes and Marie Claire. She has worked at Direkt36 as a journalist since 2016, and as an editor since 2022. In 2022, she studied OSINT techniques as an OCCRP Research Fellow. She teaches journalism at ELTE’s media department.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

P\u00e9ter N\u00e1dori – COO<\/h3>\n
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The first editor-in-chief of Origo, P\u00e9ter worked with Direkt36 founders Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151 and Gerg\u0151 S\u00e1ling at the news portal. His other positions and activities included a long stint as deputy CEO of Lapcom (a print\/online publishing conglomerate), academic publications, and teaching at several universities. In 2020-21 he assisted the team leaving Index to launch the crowdfunded news portal, Telex. He was one of the founders (and, later, chairperson) of the Association of Hungarian Content Providers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Borb\u00e1la P\u00e1l – nonprofit manager<\/h3>\n
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Bori studied social sciences at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University and the Central European University in Budapest. Afterwards, she worked for Centropa, an international educational NGO aiming to preserve Jewish memory. She enjoys working and volunteering for civil organizations, and is passionate about non-formal education and social inclusion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Advisory Board<\/h1>\n

Direkt36 is supported by two advisory bodies.<\/p>\n

The members of our journalistic advisory group are M\u00e1rton Galambos, S\u00e1ndor Orb\u00e1n and Bal\u00e1zs Weyer.<\/p>\n

Our Strategic Review Board, which supports our business planning, is composed of No\u00e9mi Alexa, Viktor B\u00e1lint, and Sebastian Esser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Financial reports<\/h1>\n

\u2022 Deeds of association, created in 2014, amended in 2022 – download<\/a><\/p>\n

Direkt36 report 2022<\/h4>\n

\u2022 Transparency report 2022 – download<\/a>
\n\u2022 Financial statement and balance sheet 2022 – download<\/a>
\n\u2022 Notes to the financial statement 2022 – download<\/a>
\n\u2022 Public benefit statement 2022 – download<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous years\u00a0<\/a>\uf054<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Our supporters<\/h1>\n

Since Direkt36 was founded in 2015, more than 2,700 private donors have supported our work on more than 11,000 occasions. We cover a significant part of our operating costs with funds received from our private donors and fees paid by our media partners that publish our stories.
\nFor more details click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our supporters who gave their consent to publish their name:<\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Avis
\nJimena Abad
\n<\/span>Tam\u00e1s B\u00f3di
\n<\/span>Adrienne Erd\u0151v\u00e9gi
\n<\/span>S\u00e1ndor Jo\u00f3b
\n<\/span>Ildik\u00f3 Naetar-Bakcsi
\nTibor Sipos
\n<\/span>Istv\u00e1n Varga<\/span><\/p>\n

(Are you a supporter and would like to see your name here? Send an e-mail to <\/i>info@direkt36.hu<\/i><\/span><\/a>.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Foundation for Democracy and Pluralism<\/p>\n

Civitates<\/p>\n

Sigrid Rausing Trust<\/p>\n

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