ICYMI: 🇪🇺 EU Investigators Probing Orbán’s Son-in-Law Surveilled, Sparking Intelligence Agency Infighting Andras Petho direkt36 direkt36.hu/en/english-eu-…

👀💰For the first time, Viktor Orbán was confronted with our reporting that Hungarian intelligence surveilled OLAF investigators while they were probing his son-in-law's company for defrauding EU taxpayers. He didn’t deny it... Here’s our original story: direkt36.hu/en/english-eu-…

This month in Cartagena, journalists & filmmakers from 25+ countries gathered at #FloodlightSummit to explore turning truth-based reporting into impactful fiction films & series. The future of investigative storytelling, w/our partner Fundación Gabo: occrp.org/en/announcemen…

🥳We just won Hungary's annual prize for best investigative journalism, the Soma-Transparency Award, with Andras Petho! 🏆It's direkt36's 4th win in 5 years—a huge achievement for our small but mighty non-profit team. 🔎This year, we uncovered 🇭🇺spying on EU institutions... 1/4

...and the Transparency-Soma 2024 Award goes to: Zoltán Jandó, journalist of G7.hu and Szabolcs Panyi & András Pethő, investigative journalists of direkt36! We had a wonderful ceremony on Friday evening. Again, we congratulate the winners for their amazing work!

"Brace yourself for the worst". That's the advice to US journalists from reporters in Hungary. With thanks to direkt36 Andras Petho Jeremy Shapiro ECFR Mérték Média Monitor Listen back on The World theworld.org/segments/2025/…

🔎💰 Behind the Orbán government’s “pro-family” policies lies vast corruption—benefiting one family the most: Viktor Orbán’s. My colleagues spent months on this documentary, the first in-depth film on corruption at the highest level in Hungary. Coming soon—stay tuned! direkt36

Stay tuned 🎥

The new direkt36 documentary is finally released! “The Dynasty” investigates how Viktor Orban’s family got so rich. Everyone should watch and learn the mechanisms of corruption. (Featuring reporting by me) youtu.be/bZ4SXv9qJHM?si…

“The Dynasty”: a documentary on how Viktor #Orban’s family got so rich. By direkt36 about corruption in #Hungary on the highest level youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4SXv…

This documentary tells the story of the business dealings of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s family over several decades. With hidden camera footage, we also show the luxurious world built by Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law István Tiborcz... telex.hu/english/2025/0…

I’m extremely proud to have been part of this project. Simple, clear, old-fashioned storytelling is still powerful.

💥direkt36's 56-minute documentary on Viktor Orbán's family enrichment is a huge success—2.2M views in a country of 9.7M. While Orbán’s propagandists smear us, we’re receiving unprecedented support and gratitude from our audience. 🎬Watch the movie here: youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4SXv…

For those in doubt: investigative reporting is free speech. We work in the interest of the many and against the interests of the few who try to rob them blind. occrp.org/en/feature/inv…

Join us at ISOJ 2025 for a panel with Ann Marie Lipinski, on the challenges journalists face in declining democracies. ✊📰 Hear from: Carlos Dada– El Salvador 📰 Gülsin Harman– Turkey 📰 Arfa Khanum Sherwani– India 📰 Andras Petho– Hungary  Learn more: isoj.org/program-2025/

Trump's moves to curb independent media look familiar to the Hungarian journalist Andras Petho: "The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán's lessons well." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump's moves to curb independent media look familiar to Hungarian investigative journalist Andras Petho: “The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán’s lessons well.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Thank you The Atlantic and Griff Witte for the opportunity!

“We found a special position in the Hungarian media landscape. We’re not part of the news cycle. We focus all of our resources on investigative projects, reporting on stories that matter for the audience.” Andras Petho co-founder of direkt36 buff.ly/BTrK2Cr

So proud to see direkt36 from Hungary featured when I opened my Nieman Lab newsletter yesterday - and what and a great lesson learned about the how to leverage multimedia as a digital newsroom in a screen heavy society.