Organized crime and corruption reporting project

Organized crime and corruption reporting project

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) founded in 2006 is a consortium of investigative centers operating in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. OCCRP is the only full-time investigative reporting organization that specializes in organized crime and corruption. It publishes its stories through local media and in English through its website. OCCRP is an early practitioner of collaborative cross-border investigative journalism by non-profit journalism organizations, an approach that is gaining recognition in the United States and now Europe.

The project has been involved in a number of high profile investigations including looking at organized crime ownership in football clubs, casinos and the security industry.[1][2][3] It also was a finalist for the 2010 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, for its project on the illegal document trade.[4] It won the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for its project [5]Offshore Crime, Inc., a series of stories documenting offshore tax havens, the criminals who use them and the millions of dollars in lost tax money. It won the Global Shining Light Award for investigative reporting under duress for its series on energy traders.[6] It partnered with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for a project on tobacco smuggling[7] that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.[8][9]

Member centers include the Center for Investigative Reporting (Bosnia and Herzegovina)(CIN) in Sarajevo, Centrul Roman Pentru Jurnalism Investigatie in Bucharest, the Centar za istrazivacko novinarstvo - Serbia in Belgrade, Investigative Journalists of Armenia (HETQ) in Yerevan, the Bulgarian Investigative Journalism Center in Sofia, Atlatszo.hu in Budapest, MANS in Montenegro, re:Baltica in Riga, SCOOP-Macedonia in Skopje and others. It is also is partnered with Novaya Gazeta in Moscow and the Kyiv Post in Kyiv. It has worked with the Guardian, Le Soir, the BBC, Time Magazine, and other major media.

Its parent organization is the Journalism Development Network, a Maryland-based non-profit organization which operates the organization on behalf of the member centers.

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References

  1. ^ "Private security firms in the Balkans harbor corruption, observers say". Deutsche Welle. 2010-06-19. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5684942,00.html. 
  2. ^ "Vîntu, cercetat alături de Kiss Laszlo, pentru o fraudă de 8 milioane de euro". Jurnalul Naţional. 2010-11-16. http://www.jurnalul.ro/stiri/observator/vintu-cercetat-alaturi-de-kiss-laszlo-pentru-o-frauda-de-8-milioane-de-euro-559934.html. 
  3. ^ "In Hungary, Corruption Continues". The Vienna Review. 2009-04-09. http://www.viennareview.net/story/02388-hungary-corruption-continues. 
  4. ^ "OCCRP Finalist for Pearl Award". OCCRP. 2010-03-18. http://www.reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/press-box/640-occrp-finalist-for-pearl-award. 
  5. ^ "OCCRP Wins Daniel Pearl Global Investigative Journalism Award". HETQ. 2011-10-18. http://hetq.am/eng/news/5491/. 
  6. ^ {Cite web|url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmcumeds/memo/press/ucps1202.htm%7Cpublisher=Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom|title=Memorandum submitted by Drew Sullivan|year=2009|month=January}}
  7. ^ "Montenegro Reaches for Respectability With Port". New York Times. 2010-08-18. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/business/global/19montenegro.html?pagewanted=2. 
  8. ^ "Playing Defense". American Journalism Review. June 2010. http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4884. 
  9. ^ "ICIJ Wins Tom Renner Award". OCCRP. 2009-04-02. http://www.reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/projects/tobacco-project/1-latest-projects/245-icij-wins-tom-renner-award. 

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