Francesca Borri

Francesca Borri, Italy 1980, has a background in International Law. After a short experience in the former Yugoslavia, she started working as human rights adviser in the Middle East, especially in Israel and Palestine. She turned to journalism in 2012 to cover the battle for Aleppo, and since then, her dispatches have been translated into 21 languages. Five years and 500,000 dead later, she still lives in Syria and Iraq, and in between one ceasefire and the next, she writes about Palestinians for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s main newspaper. She is the author of Syrian Dust (Seven Stories Press 2016). 

Francesca Borri was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Destination Paradise: Among the jihadists of the Maldives’

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’