Tamás Bodoky

Tamás Bodoky is an investigative journalist and editor, and nonprofit executive based in Budapest, Hungary. Tamás has been a journalist since 1996: before joining Index.hu, where he spent 9 years in different journalistic and editorial positions, he was science and technology journalist at the Magyar Narancs weekly paper. Tamás has won the Gőbölyös Soma Prize for investigative journalism in 2008 for his articles on Hungary’s 2006 unrest and police brutality. Tamás has won the Iustitia Regnorum Fundamentum and the Hungarian Pulitzer Memorial Prize for his investigative articles and freedom of information lawsuits on high level political corruption cases. Tamás is Marshall Memorial Fellowship alumni, and member of international investigative journalism networks. In 2011 Tamás co-founded hungarian watchdog NGO and investigative journalism center atlatszo.hu, where he serves as editor in chief and executive director.

Tamás Bodoky was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Atlatszo.hu’

Yavuz Baydar

Yavuz Baydar is an award-winning Turkish journalist, whose professional activity spans nearly four decades. In December 2013, Baydar co-founded the independent media platform, P24, Punto24, to monitor the media sector of Turkey, as well as organizing surveys, and training workshops. Baydar wrote opinion columns, in Turkish, liberal daily Ozgur Dusunce and news site Haberdar, and in English, daily Today’s Zaman, on domestic and foreign policy issues related to Turkey, and media matters, until all had to cease publications due to growing political oppression. Currently, Baydar is engaged in a 12-month project, funded by the EED, titled ‘Screening Turkey’ – a continous series of activities in news analysis, and blogs.

Yavuz Baydar was selected for the 2014 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Ombudsman Columns’