We're Dean Starkman and Andras Petho, two investigative reporters based in Hungary, both affiliated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists https://www.icij.org/ (Dean is an editor at ICIJ, Andras is a local partner), the network that broke the Panama Papers https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/ and other big global investigative stories.

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Dean is a fellow at Center for Media, Data and Society and a visiting lecturer at the School of Public Policy at Central European University, Budapest. He is the author of The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism (Columbia University Press, 2014) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-watchdog-that-didnt-bark/9780231158190, an analysis of business-press failures prior to the 2008 financial crisis. He also writes about journalism and the future of news. https://archives.cjr.org/essay/confidence_game.php

Andras is co-founder and editor of Direkt36, an investigative reporting non-profit. https://www.direkt36.hu/en/ Previously he had worked at Hungarian news site Origo (which he left in protest against political pressure https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/press_crackdown_and_pushback_i.php), the BBC World Service and The Washington Post's investigative unit. In recent years, he has been reporting on the controversial businesses of Viktor Orban's family https://www.direkt36.hu/en/category/az-orban-csalad-uzletei/ and Russia's influence in Hungary. https://www.direkt36.hu/en/orban-jatszmaja/

Here we are together, waiting for your questions: https://twitter.com/andraspe/status/1054807650943295488

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