Håkon Høydal

Håkon F. Høydal is a feature journalist working for the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG). Since 2013 he has mainly focused on issues concerning online crime, especially child abuse, often in collaboration with his colleague Einar Otto Stangvik and Natalie R. Hansen. In 2015 they published the three part documentary ‘The Downloaders‘, where they identified  men both from Norway and the rest of the world who downloaded child abuse material. The documentary received the presitigous ONA Award in USA, as well as the first Data-Skup award in Norway. In 2017 they uncovered a police operation on the darknet against the largest child abuse forum, a story that was quoted around the world. Høydal has also covered the drug war in the Philippines, forced marriages of Norwegian girls in Iraq, and the new rise of psychedelics.

Håkon Høydal was selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ’The Downloaders’

Miranda Patrucic

Based in Sarajevo, Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter and regional editor for OCCRP focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, uncovering hidden assets of Azerbaijan’s and Montenegro’s ruling elites, the €1.2 billion arms trade between Europe and Gulf fueling conflicts in the Middle East, and ties between organized crime, government and business in Montenegro. She collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on a project involving tobacco smuggling, the $4 billion black market in endangered bluefin tuna, Swiss Leaks and Panama Papers. She is the recipient of the Knight International Journalism Award, theGlobal Shining Light Award, IRE Tom Renner Award, the Daniel Pearl Award and European Press Prize. She is much in demand worldwide for training journalists on how to investigate and uncover corruption, money laundering and how to follow the money.  

Miranda Patrucic was selected for the 2013 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Proxy Platform’, the 2015 shortlist with ‘Unholy Alliances’ and she won the 2015 Special Award with ‘The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’