2024
IJ4EU Impact award
Story Killers
Story Killers is a global exposé by Forbidden Stories revealing the shadowy world of disinformation mercenaries. What sets the project apart is its focus on the experiences of journalists who risk their safety to report on this perilous industry.
The jury commended the team for painting a profound picture of the landscape of disinformation, surveillance and press freedom.
Forbidden Stories is an international network of journalists operating under the motto: “Killing the journalist won’t kill the story.” For this project, Forbidden Stories brought together more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets for a unique collaboration.
One of the journalists whose work Forbidden Stories continued was Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated in Bangalore in 2017, days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation.
My contribution was researching and making an OSINT analysis of the company ‘S2T unlocking cyberspace’
2021
IJ4EU Impact Award
Project: Fraud Factory
The jury hailed Fraud Factory as an “impressive piece of old-fashioned, cross-border journalism.” Walker said: “The Fraud Factory was a tenacious piece of work that put human faces to a sad story of cross-border fraud.”
My contribution focused on mapping related fraud and gambling sites and using platforms like RiskIQ’s PassiveTotal to show that they were run by the same owner.
2020
Slovakia journalism award
Project: Kocner Library
Together with the OCCRP data team, I planned, set up, and executed a safe leak viewing room while handling more than 70 TB of data regarding the assasination of a co-worker, Ján Kuciak.