In June 2022 Andras Petho wrote an article for Nieman Reports entitled I witnessed Orbán crack down on Hungary’s free press. Here’s my advice to journalists facing similar threats about his exper...
Andras Petho
Andras Petho is co-founder and executive director of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center in Hungary. Direkt36, which was launched in 2015, is one of the few Hungarian journalism organizations that are not controlled by pro-government forces and other political interest groups.
During his 20-year-long career, Andras was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo, 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 and the Pegasus Project. He has written extensively about political corruption and has taught journalism courses at Hungarian universities. 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.
The need for strong community-based newsrooms has scarcely felt more vital to our democracies, yet local media continues to be under immense pressure, with local investigative journalism facing its ow...
The session will explore different ways in which press freedom is threatened and how that translates into innovative media projects in the CEE region. We are going to talk about the polarization and i...
Viktor Orbán's Hungary has become a difficult place for independent journalists and media organizations. In recent years, outlets critical of the government have been forced to close or have been sol...
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