Natalia Antelava

Natalia Antelava (Tbilisi, Georgia) is co-founder of Coda Story. She is an Emmy-nominee and award winning journalist. Natalia leads the editorial team working on Coda’s Disinformation Crisis edition, which provides in-depth, multimedia and often experimental reporting on how “fake news” and propaganda affects lives in the former Soviet Union and Europe. Natalia started her career freelancing in West Africa, has written for the Guardian, Forbes Magazine and the New Yorker among others and has been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and most recently India. She has reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan and her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards.

Natalia Antelava was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Coda Story’

Fabrice Arfi

Fabrice Arfi (1981) has been a journalist for 18 years – his first and only job, without diploma. Fabrice heads the investigation desk of Mediapart, a French investigative website founded in 2008 by the former editor of the newspaper Le Monde. He is the author of six books on corruption, tax havens, mass surveillance and freedom of the press. He is also the co-author of a television documentary, ‘Money, Blood and Democracy’ (about the Karachi case), which received the FIGRA Grand Prize in 2014.

Fabrice Arfi was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ’Mapping the Weapons of Terror’