George Arbuthnott

George Arbuthnott is the Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times’s Insight Investigations Team. He is an award-winning journalist who uses innovative and in-depth research techniques to investigate human rights abuses, miscarriages of justice, companies, organisations and individuals within an ethical framework around the world. He was recently involved in exposing the global doping scandal in athletics, uncovering the evidence that led to a criminal inquiry into Jose Mourinho’s tax affairs and exposing alleged war crimes committed by Britain’s Special Air Service in Afghanistan. His two-year investigative campaign into human trafficking in the UK was praised by The Prime Minister and helped shape Britain’s Modern Slavery Bill, the first anti-slavery law in the UK since the 19th century.

George Arbuthnott was selected for the for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Fifa Scandal’

Roman Anin

Roman Anin is the head of investigative section of Novaya Gazeta, one of the most famous Russian newspapers in the world. He began his career in 2006 as a sports writer, but in 2008 was moved to the newspaper’s investigative section. Since 2009 Roman has been working on cross-border investigations with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and International Consortium if Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).  His work also led to investigative reports in the Financial Times, the BBC and Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s public broadcaster. Today, besides Novaya Gazeta, Roman is also a member Reuters’ investigative team and part of the Panama Papers team. Roman majored in journalism at Moscow State University (MSU) and graduated in 2010.

In 2012, he received three of the most prestigious awards in Russian investigative journalism: the Artem Borovik award, the Youlian Semenov award and the Andrey Sakharov award. In 2013, he received a prestigious international award – the Knight International Journalism Award. 

Roman Anin was selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Values of the Clan’