In an increasingly hostile media landscape, it is essential for journalists to have the tools, training, and support needed to stay safe. This session will explore innovative strategies and solutions ...
Paul Radu
Paul Radu is co-founder and head of innovation at OCCRP. He founded the organization in 2007 with Drew Sullivan. He leads OCCRP’s major investigative projects, scopes regional expansion, and develops new strategies and technology to expose organized crime and corruption across borders.
Paul initiated and led the award-winning Russian, Azerbaijani, and Troika Laundromat investigations, and coined the term “laundromat” to define large scale, all-purpose financial fraud vehicles that are used to launder billions of dollars. He is a co-creator of Investigative Dashboard — a research desk that sifts through datasets to help journalists trace people, companies, and assets — and the Visual Investigative Scenarios software, a tool that lets reporters sketch out the people, institutions, and connections in criminal networks so people can easily follow complex investigations. He is also a co-founder of RISE Project, a platform for investigative reporters in Romania.
Paul is an Ashoka Global Fellow and has held a number of other fellowships, including the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Knight International Journalism Fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is a board member for the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a member of the jury for the global Sigma Data Journalism Awards, and a member of the Allard Prize advisory board.
Paul is a winner of the Daniel Pearl Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the European Press Prize, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was part of the Panama Papers team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. He has also authored or contributed to handbooks and digital guides such as Against Corruption: a collection of essays, The Data Journalism Handbook, and Follow the Money — A Digital Guide to Tracking Corruption.
Events IJF 2025
Corruption of history remains as much a weapon in the authoritarian playbook as it was before our current age of information abundance. There are no guarantees that once content is on the internet it ...
Floodlight: Fiction in the Public Interest is an exciting new initiative that connects investigative journalism and the film and television industry to produce fiction that informs, illuminates, and e...
Getting ahead of the bad guys: what journalists need to know to keep up with organized crime’s 2023 playbook
Paul and Pavla are back again this year, highlighting what’s new and noteworthy in investigating organized crime in 2023. Joining them is Stevan Dojcinovic. High level criminals have designed future...
The structure of organized crime has improved significantly over the last few decades and journalists have only started to understand the reach of transnational criminals in the last five years. In th...
Organized crime groups and corrupt politicians see the world as their playground. They use national and international financial infrastructure to bypass regulation in order to launder vast amounts of ...
Transnational investigative journalism: 3 examples Three investigations, the IRPI-Correctiv-El Confidencial-Tages Anzeiger joint work The Wolves of Europe which uncovered a fraud of fake bonds perp...
How can crime be investigated cross-border by investigative reporters? OCCRP and IRPI provide some practical examples. Organised in association with IRPI - Investigative Reporting Project Italy
Looking at the care and the management of hospitals through data can really make a difference, even in terms of practical choices by citizens and policymakers. An example of this is the #doveticuri re...
How do corrupt politicians and criminals make and hide their money and how to expose them? This workshop will assist investigative reporters in gathering, processing and visualizing information to shi...
The rapidly changing field of data journalism is one of the best practices for making complex information understandable for the general public and therefore is critical to the future of news. Come ...
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) A presentation of techniques used by organized crime and corrupt politicians to laun...
In this session, we bring you the minds behind some of the most successful collaborative investigation platforms and projects in Europe and Asia - from the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting...
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