📚 GIJN's Stories of the Week:

🔵ICIJ revealed the role Africa's last absolute monarchy may have played in gold smuggling.
🟣The Appeal's investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative prices – up to 5x higher than in the community.

More: mailchi.mp/gijn/newslette…

👏We are proud to announce that for the third time Direkt36's journalists are nominated for the European Press Prize.

Kamilla Marton

Full house here in Perugia at Andras Petho’s lecture on how Viktor Orbán’s propaganda works. I’m adding just one slide on how Orbán’s smear campaigns work - and it doesn’t really need translation. #ijf24 journalism festival

💡Andras Petho co-founder and editor of Direkt36 gave a speech at the journalism festival on how Viktor Orbán has built one of the most robust and sophisticated propaganda machinery the modern media has seen.

👉 Maďarští novináři z direkt36 ve spolupráci s Expresso a Le Monde však odhalili, že skoro čtyři miliardy korun pocházely z maďarských institucí blízkých vládě a Orbánovi.

#France 🇫🇷: We back the call of our affiliate SNJ - premier syndicat de journalistes for the opening of a parliamentary inquiry into euronews takeover in July 2022. Questions need to be clarified about the origins of the funds used to purchase the TV channel. EFJ ifj.org//media-centre/…

𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 | When Euronews was bought out in 2022, who footed the bill?

Le Monde with direkt36 and Expresso now reveal that entities close to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban 🇭🇺 were heavily involved in this operation ⤵️
lemde.fr/3xG2CMU

A presentation from the Széchenyi Funds, marked 'strictly confidential,' explicitly mentions that one of the aims of the takeover of Euronews,' was 'to mitigate left-wing bias in journalism' / Our investigation with ⁦direkt36⁩ and ⁦Expresso⁩ lemonde.fr/en/economy/art…

If you woke up in Europe, start your day with reading our investigation with Le Monde and Expresso into how Viktor Orbán's people helped finance the takeover of television channel Euronews.

direkt36.hu/en/bizalmas-ir…

Orbán’s meddling in European politics and media has reached a new level: direkt36 with Le Monde and Expresso reveals that Hungary’s government secretly financed the 2022 acquisition of euronews with a clear plan to turn it into right-wing propaganda. direkt36.hu/en/bizalmas-ir…

Orbán's hidden hand in Euronews: A secret deal with a Portuguese fund manager allowed the Hungarian state to invest €45 million in buying the television network. Amazing collaboration with Andras Petho, Ágnes Gólya, Brice Laemle and JB Chastand based on docs obtained by direkt36

Viktor Orbán’s people had a secret. They helped finance the 2022 takeover of Euronews, one of the biggest news channels in Europe.

Thanks to our joint direkt36 investigation with Le Monde and Expresso, it is not a secret anymore

Here’s our version:
telex.hu/direkt36/2024/…

Direkt36, together with Le Monde and Expresso , found out that a Hungarian state capital fund and a long-standing player in the government propaganda machine secretly financed the acquisition of Euronews by Alpac Capital in 2022.

Read our story here: telex.hu/direkt36/2024/…

⛷️🍾Mathias Corvinus Collegium funded by Hungarian taxpayers spends huge sums on parties and events in hotels abroad. Direkt36 used insider information to reveal MCC’s luxury spending.

Read our new article
direkt36.hu/en/kiszivarogt…

Camps in 4 star hotels, hundreds of millions in catering costs, millions in honoraria, contracts with Fidesz-affiliated companies: direkt36 story about the money-spreading of Fidesz think tank and cadre training #MCC , which is stuffed with public money
telex.hu/direkt36/2024/…

🔴SAVE THE DATE!
'How does modern propaganda work? A warning from Hungary'
#ijf24 with 
Andaras Petho
🎥Live & On Demand > on Thu, Apr 18th
journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

🇰🇬The authorities have accused Temirov Live, a respected investigative outlet, of inciting mass unrest, and jailed nearly a dozen of its current and former employees. A sense of fear has descended on Kyrgyzstan. Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project #FreeKyrgyz11 Read more: vsquare.org/free-kyrgyz-11…

🇰🇬We stand with journalists jailed in Kyrgyzstan. Investigative journalism in an oppressive regime takes courage. We are calling for the release of our colleagues! #FreeKyrgyz11 FRONTSTORY.PL DelfiEE atlatszo.hu INVESTIGATÍVNE CENTRUM JÁNA KUCIAKA investigace_cz Siena Re:Baltica