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Romanian journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Radu is an investigative journalist from Romania.[1] He is the co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which he and co-founder Drew Sullivan received the Special Award by the European Press Prize.[2][3] He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism.[4]
Paul Radu | |
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 Radu being interviewed for the human trafficking documentary film Not My Life (left to right: Radu, Richard Young, Robert Bilheimer) | |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Citizenship | Romania |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist |
| Organization(s) | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism |
| Known for | Investigating transnational crime in Eastern Europe |
He is the recipient of numerous awards including in 2004, the Knight International Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award,[5] in 2007, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the 2011 the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and the 2015 European Press Prize.[6] In 2020 he was awarded the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship[7] and He has also been part of the Panama Papers multiple awards winning team.
In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl.[8] In 2009, he appeared on 48 Hours investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania.[9] He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[10]
Paul has been selected for a number of fellowships including the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 2001,[11] the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship in 2002,[12] the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2007,[13] the 2008 Knight International Journalism fellowship with the International Center for Journalists[14] and he was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow in 2018.[15] He is a board member for the Global Investigative Journalism Network,[16] a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,[17] a member of the jury for the global Sigma Data Journalism Awards,[18] and a member of the Allard Prize advisory board.[19]
Radu is the executive producer of the award-winning film “The Killing of a Journalist.”[20]
In 2023, he co-founded Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest, an initiative that brings together investigative journalists and filmmakers together to make TV series and films.[21]
Also in 2023, Radu oversaw the NarcoFiles project, a series of investigations that revealed the inner workings of transnational smuggling gangs from Latin America to Europe.[22]
Radu is a co-founder of the Journalism Cloud Alliance, which is examining data storage costs and risks to ensure newsrooms can increase investigative journalism capacity and stay sustainable. He is a committee member of the Paris Charter on AI and Journalism which defines ethics and principles that journalists, newsrooms and media outlets can apply in their work with artificial intelligence.[23]
In 2020 Radu was sued for defamation in London by Azerbaijani MP, Javanshir Feyziyev, over two articles in OCCRP's award-winning Azerbaijan Laundromat series about money-laundering out of Azerbaijan. The case was discontinued two weeks before the trial was to start.[24]
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